For awhile it was single downvotes, but it seems that moved up to 2-3 on each comment. Even the most benign stuff gets hit, the pattern is clear.

Can I find this person and block them from seeing my posts? Never really delved into how lemmy works.

Probably doesn't matter much because after awhile the forget and leave me alone for a bit.

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[–] 79 points 10 months ago (20 children)

I fed a couple of your comments into lemvotes and found out who it was pretty easily. I imagine this is a bannable offense somewhere?

https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/21432178
https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/21432359

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  • [–] 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

    Looks like a normal short term lemmy fight, someone didn't like what they said in a thread and opened their history and downvoted everything on the first screen. Going back 3 days and the downvotes stop.

    lemmy.world appears to be their main account, this seems to be the post that triggered them do do their downvoting spree: https://lemmy.world/post/41260627

    Looks like the sock puppet master was angry for about 20 minutes, and got tired of manually downvoting. Still pretty terrible vote manipulation making lemmy a hostile place.

    @shalafi@lemmy.world

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago

    I think on the original offending post, OP made some somewhat inflammatory comments about ADHD and Autism further down. I imagine the downvoter felt personally hurt by these comments, hence the temporary spree, driven mostly by emotion. I don’t agree with the vote manipulation but not knowing their full story I would caution against people coming across this and retaliating against this person. It seems like it was just a short response and hopefully they have had a chance to cool off now.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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    It's 2 years old, as opposed to the sock puppet ones which are 4 months old. It's voting the same way as the other 3 also. I guess it doesn't really matter which is the main, just thought I'd add it regardless since it wasn't mentioned.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I've looked at the voting patterns and I can't establish the link you mentioned, the falsewhite accounts are obviously alts/sockpuppets of each other, that is all I can say

    43 downvotes across 2 minutes but at a 4 hours earlier then the other downvoting falsewhite accounts.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    All targeting the same person as the other 3 accounts, 4 hours apart? That's quite a coincidence if it's not the same person. My guess is they first went through with their main account, then decided to do the same later with their other accounts. Either way, it's the exact same behavior as the others, so it's worth calling out in the exact same way.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Surprised the offender has a db0 account...

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago* (7 children)

    For anyone else wondering:

    Divisions by zero lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Be Weird, Download a Car, Generate Art, Screw Copyrights, Do Maths

    Communities about Anarchism, Generative Al, Copylefts, Neurodivergence, Filesharing, and Free Software. (And Math!) Follow the Anarchist Code of Conduct and honor the Disengage Rule. Don't be shitty to each other. Keep it SFW. Obey the spirit of The Golden Rules. Fuck around and find out.

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  • [+] -5 points 10 months ago* (4 children)
  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    What's the issue with their code of conduct, or having them in general?

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago

    Blocking a user only stops you from seeing them, not the other way around. They can still interact with your posts.

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  • [–] 33 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    No matter what you post, someone will downvote it. It simply just doesn't matter

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  • [+] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    You can discover who is doing it with Lemvotes

    But no, you can't block them. Here in the real world (as opposed to the dystopian centralized platforms that have largely supplanted public discourse), it is not possible to isolate a specific individual and deny them access to information provided freely to the rest of the general public.

    Should their public engagement rise to the level of harassment, there are legal options you can take to compel their restraint. But downvoting everything you do does not rise to such a level.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Just search the votes and block them

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    OP is asking how to prevent abusers from seeing OPs content.

    "Blocking" the abuser prevents OP from seeing the abuser's content. "Blocking" does not prevent the abuser from seeing and interacting with OP's content.

    "Blocking" does not achieve OP's objective.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    So you're saying falseWhite and krimsom are a stalker!
    Very sad and pathetic.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    falseWhite mass downvotes from accounts on at least three instances that I've seen. There are several others that I've noticed, but it hasn't bothered me enough to look into it beyond that. I figure eventually these accounts will get banned for something or other, and it isn't worth that much time or space in my head.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    FalseWhite is a serial vote manipulator, so... Yeah. Dude's not even trying to hide; all the accounts they use to vote multiple times on posts use the same exact name.

    Though, OP is also a pedophile/defender of pedophiles, so I mean... They're gonna get downvoted by anyone who knows who they are just for that. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago

    Downvotes aren't that big of a deal my friend.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    With all the cranks on here, downvotes are a sign of doing something right. Some instances hide downvotes entirely. Others offer settings to not show them.

    Not sure blocking them affects the downvote count shown to you.

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    My gang stalkers can tongue my anus via the down arrow below.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    To prove you wrong I down voted this post and I don't remember any interactions with you in the past.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (16 children)

    Is it because of that time you were defending pedophilia and regurgitating MAP talking points?

    EDIT: or maybe it's the constant repulsive content that has resulted in pages, and pages, and pages of mod actions for years? For things such as: racism, transphobia, actual antisemitism, advocating violence, racism again, and look...

    pedophile apologia again...

    Man... I wonder why people would downvote you..... it's a a real headscratcher.

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  • [+] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)
  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    There were a few pedo defenders in that thread (see the other user that got fully banned for doubling down over and over again). I tagged the profiles making excuses for pedos which is why I knew who OP was (roughly).

    Just kinda feel like people who try to equate pedophiles as part of the queer community are probably shitty people. And probably have shitty takes.... and looks like they have a lot of shitty takes. So much that theyre whining about getting downvoted.

    I mean, Jesus, just look at their modlog... banned for pedo apologia, actual antisemitism, civility, etc etc etc. Pages of mod actions....

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  • [+] [S] -19 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I'll ask you the same, do you believe people choose their attractions? Be very careful in your answer. If you say yes, then LGBT is a choice.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    I think the point is that she was a child rapist, not necessarily a pedophile.

    Some child rapists rape children because of the power imbalance etc., not necessarily out of physical, sexual, or romantic attraction.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Pretty crazy take to voice in a thread about a child-raping teacher...no? Whether a person is sexually attracted to children or not, they should not rape them, and especially not if they are in a profession with in loco parentis legal responsibility?

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    I'm not seeing that, pedophilia is a condition and the user was responding in earnest to a comment asking "why?". I personally would not conflate this with defending child molesters

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I have no clue what MAP is, but can you point to the words that hurt you?

    We don’t get to choose who and what we are attracted to. 🤷🏻‍♂️ However, that does not absolve one of immoral actions.

    Or do you believe attraction is a choice? You believe people have a choice to be gay or trans? You can't have it both ways. Pick. One.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    MAP mean Minor Attracted Person

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    You believe people have a choice to be gay or trans?

    From a policy and human rights point of view, it's irrelevant whether it's a choice or predetermined.

    Anecdotally, I have friends whose sexuality sure looks like it was arrived at by a process that included an element of choice. And if that's the case, it's still just as legitimate an identity as if it were inborn.

    This might cause discomfort because it could send fascists the message that they could bully queer people into being straight. But they're going to bully queer people regardless of whether it's a choice.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    So, your argument is that

    explanation = approval

    ? That pathetically superficial take pretty much amounts to media illiteracy[^media-illiteracy]: see fallacy Confusing an Explanation with an Excuse.

    Can anyone factually explain atrocities in your presence without you treating any explanation as a defense even when it's explicitly stated that the explained subject is immoral?

    They answered the question & your not liking the answer doesn’t make it less true. There are better ways to deal with facts than insufferable irrationality.

    [^media-illiteracy]: > @JUNlPER
    > this is always one that gets me. so many people are unable to realize that you can present characters doing something bad without endorsing it. not sure when this kind of baby brained thing started but its so silly to see so often > >> @ducktales2020
    >> more than anything they conflate Presenting Something with Agreeing With Something, but don’t apply it to good guy/bad guy narratives. when everyone’s bad they short circuit

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Exellent resource! I look forward to terminating and easing the destruction of some of my own hanger-onners in due time

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    The whinier you are about being downvoted, the more I think you deserve it.

    I would argue that his massive history and modlogs of him being a shitty person with inflammatory comments and toxic takes are why he deserves it. It should be obvious that after two years of mod corrective actions for egregious behavior he's not going to change.

    Him doing the "oh, woe is me" act here feels pretty hollow.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    I had a Reddit account get to the special place for people who got over 100,000 upvotes. The sub was full of assholes.

    Also I’m an asshole so you’re theory checks out.

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    Yeah I never had to pay for Reddit because I got gold for my comments.

    Which were normally something sarcastic.

    It’s kinda like the algorithm for social media. What gets engagement? Bad shit.

    So if you get a group together who is good at that… you’re kinda surrounded by broken people lol

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    I highly recommend going into settings and hiding downvotes from yourself. Stick to dealing with the people who at least bother to engage in written form.

    Downvoting is lazy and adds zero value. It's pure masochism to let yourself get even a tiny bit annoyed just because some rando on the other side of the world spent 0.5 seconds clicking a down arrow on your comment - which they probably didn't even read to the end.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    If it bothers you that much, make an account on an instance that doesn't have downvotes.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    A few negative votes don't affect you in real life, do they?

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    Down vote me.

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