https://lemvotes.org/user/BlueBayou@thelemmy.club

Presentment Before the Court

I bring before this Court a matter so strange that I initially assumed the numbers had been typed by a frightened calculator.

The accused account has downvoted 753 posts and comments in two days. And in that same span of time, the account has upvoted exactly: Zero.

Not even one accidental slip of the finger. The Court finds this deeply unsettling.

More unsettling still, those two days appear to be the account’s entire known civilization. Before those two days: silence. After those two days: silence. Nothing. The horrible abyss of nothingness.

The account appeared, fired 753 tiny blue cannonballs into the countryside, and then vanished back into the fog like a Victorian chimney sweep who just discovered broadband. Then porn.

If this is a normal human user, then that human spent two straight days behaving less like a person and more like an angry office printer that had been taught disappointment.

I therefore submit the following for consideration:

Exhibit A: 753 downvotes in two days.

Exhibit B: zero upvotes.

Exhibit C: no meaningful activity before or after those two days.

Exhibit D: a drawing I made of the suspected bot. It has six legs, one red eye, and a little hat. The hat is not evidence, but I felt it helped. Wait. I just realized I took the picture directly in front of my car’s license plate. I am not getting doxxed by some unhinged Lemmy incel over a robot in a hat. Exhibit D is hereby withdrawn, sealed, burned, and denied ever having existed.

The obvious question before this Court is whether we are dealing with a bot. Or something worse.

Perhaps a very small man living inside a router. Perhaps an abandoned Roomba with a Lemmy account. Perhaps the spirit of an old Reddit moderator trapped inside a Raspberry Pi.

Let's take a moment and and stare at the evidence. And the evidence, quite frankly, is staring back with dead bot eyes.

Council would like to present to the court our findings in relation to user blindkermit@lemmy.dbzer0.com who has accumulated an astounding 16427 downvotes compared to 222 upvotes.

With an account that's been live for three years, we, the prosecution, are at our wit's end trying to determine what, if anything, this user truly enjoys. Perhaps this extended self-flaggelation in the form of content consumption is a punishment, either for them or for the users of our dear platform. Who can say?

What we can say is that this egregious crime deserves no less than the maximum sentence for this class of offence, and strongly encourage the court to agree.

According to the voting record, @Savvy@lemy.lol cast 788 downvotes in a single day.

Fun fact: 669 of those happened in about 15 minutes!!

At the peak, 90 downvotes were recorded in a single minute, which works out to him casting roughly one vote every two-thirds of a second.

Hmm. That’s pretty fast. Almost suspiciously fast for someone manually clicking every vote.

And during that same day, this account downvoted me 55 times.

That is an awful lot of clicking. Unless, of course, some kind of automated tool or bot was involved to help him do his downvote stalking. Hmmm....

Imagine being so annoyed with a handful of people on Lemmy that ya automate your downvoting just to keep following them around.

Of course, the timing alone doesn’t prove a bot was used. But 669 votes in about 15 minutes, with a peak of 90 in one minute, certainly raises the question.

Very interesting indeed.

https://lemvotes.org/user/savvy@lemy.lol