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

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[–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I doubt it. The account was created only about a month ago, yet it has already downvoted 943 comments and posts from the same small handful of users. That seems pretty excessive for an account that’s only around 30 days old: https://lemy.lol/u/savvy

What’s especially interesting is that the other accounts I’ve profiled in this community follow a very similar pattern: they were created around the same general time and repeatedly downvote the exact same small group of people.

It really seems like the work of one very angry, fixated person. The posts and comments being downvoted aren’t controversial or most are not even political either.

The pattern appears to be that he follows the users themselves, regardless of the subject or which community they post in, just do downvote without even reading or caring about the comment.

Plus every post the user has made has targeted just one person in that group...no other subjects.

Of course all of that is totally allowed. So hey, Lemmy has some disturbed unhinged users. No biggie. But if they are gonna do negative stuff like that, then I'm gonna call them out on it when I see it, because it's all public information.

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