Ok, so I’ve been here almost two months now. And I’m a frequent commenter. What I have noticed is that almost every single comment I make gets exactly 1 downvote. Regardless of where, regardless of content. Doesn’t matter what I say. I could say “Puppies are snuggly!” and it would get one downvote.
This leads me to believe there’s a bot (or maybe a series of bots) who go around and make sure everything gets downvotes. I don’t see the point of that.
Look, sometimes I make comments that people ACTUALLY don’t agree with. I made a joke comment about trump and biden being young unheard of up and comers in the political world that haven’t reached drinking age yet. I thought it was funny, but last I checked it had more downvotes than upvotes. Ok, fair enough. That joke bombed. I’ll take the L on that one.
But to downvote everything across the board? It’s hard to tell when my material is just barely landing, or just barely not landing…as opposed to now assuming the downvote is a bot and I can’t trust the negitive reaction.
So, maybe this post could serve as a brainstorm session for how to combat this very minor problem. I’m not a techie with any knowledge of how bots operate, let alone how to stop them. But I’m sure others on this forum do. So lets hash this thing out!
This happens a lot on Reddit too
Are you sure you’re not just on someone’s bad side? Why do you suspect this is bots?
Because it’s so consistant. Exactly one downvote on most of my comments within minutes of it being posted. I could see if I were on someones bad side, and they did this for like a week…this has been since day 1 of me being here, and it’s almost every comment.
The ONLY thing I could think of that would piss someone off to stalk a profile like that, is if someone who uses and loves linux is THAT upset that I don’t understand linux. But the consistancy of it is just…I can’t imagine this is human. It’s just been going on for so long, on too many posts, and almost immediately after posting a comment. You’d think they’d give up if it were a human.
I went through your comment history and I think you pass the vibe check, as in, there’s no reason someone should down vote by default. I think something is up but a bot targeting a random account seems weird. Which client do you use?
Mostly my phone. I just use the samsung browser and go to the site directly. No app. Right now I’m on my tablet. Same concept, samsung tablet. Samsung browser.
Oddly enough, I can’t use my PC at home. Firefox just will not load Lemmy, and I don’t know why. It loads parts of it…but the bulk of the page is just an endless spinny circle.
Here is a thread from my instance discussing the problem: https://aussie.zone/comment/9484368
You’re getting a lot of downvotes in this thread, are people trying to be funny or am I missing something
I think they’re trying to be funny. I’ve also noticed a mild uptick in downvotes overall. Used to be 1 downvote per comment. Now it’s like 2-3 per comment, but it’s not consistant. So I’m thinking that’ll die off when they get bored. It doesn’t feel like automatic bot downvote style.
Since the new update some instances are counting votes at zero.
