WOW. Community mods can now see votes and I can now verify things I’ve been suspecting for a long time. There’s a ton of non-posting users going into the community and downvoting every topic in it.
Does anyone know how we can ban someone from a community for vote manipulation if they’ve never posted there?
Sure! So, for example, our current weekly topic and this new topic by a user have been downvoted by user named @[email protected]. Looking around, there’s a few others within they’ve downvoted as well with no upvotes anywhere. Checking the modlog shows they’ve been banned from other communities for vote manipulation as well (among other things). They don’t need to be able to do this.
Checking older posts, I see that someone named @[email protected] had gone in and downvoted dozens of things with no upvotes. Nearly every topic we had at the time, in fact (or at least as many as I looked at). This is not only against community rules, but it’s a pretty shit thing to do.
We’ve also got old blank accounts like @[email protected] and @[email protected] with zero posts or anything of any kind downvoting. They’re not contributing anything anywhere, so they don’t need to be there at all.
I’m unfortunately too subconsciously arrogant to think I need to read the docs before starting to use something. “I’m not some newb who needs their hands held, I’m an expert user and I’m sure I can figure it out”
But thank you! Now that I’m enjoying Lemmy and being part of these communities I owe it to myself to revisit this attitude and read it over now.
WOW. Community mods can now see votes and I can now verify things I’ve been suspecting for a long time. There’s a ton of non-posting users going into the community and downvoting every topic in it.
Does anyone know how we can ban someone from a community for vote manipulation if they’ve never posted there?
I’m not sure if there’s a way.Blaze has the answer as usual.Can you link me to a few of those posts out of my own curiosity though?
Sure! So, for example, our current weekly topic and this new topic by a user have been downvoted by user named @[email protected]. Looking around, there’s a few others within they’ve downvoted as well with no upvotes anywhere. Checking the modlog shows they’ve been banned from other communities for vote manipulation as well (among other things). They don’t need to be able to do this.
Checking older posts, I see that someone named @[email protected] had gone in and downvoted dozens of things with no upvotes. Nearly every topic we had at the time, in fact (or at least as many as I looked at). This is not only against community rules, but it’s a pretty shit thing to do.
We’ve also got old blank accounts like @[email protected] and @[email protected] with zero posts or anything of any kind downvoting. They’re not contributing anything anywhere, so they don’t need to be there at all.
That’s just a few examples, but there’s more.
I’ve noticed the same on a few communities I mod. Their modlog seems to show a trend: https://lemmy.ca/modlog?userId=368142
Use https://tess.lemmy.ca/ , it is an option there
Ooh, would you happen to know whereabouts? I can’t seem to locate it. Sorry…
You can go at
https://tess.lemmy.ca/c/[email protected]/settings/moderationthen manually enter a user.Ok I’m pretty new to Lemmy in general but I just discovered Tesseract from this comment and it’s so good. Thank you.
We have some more info on the different UIs here:
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/alternative-uis
I’m unfortunately too subconsciously arrogant to think I need to read the docs before starting to use something. “I’m not some newb who needs their hands held, I’m an expert user and I’m sure I can figure it out”
But thank you! Now that I’m enjoying Lemmy and being part of these communities I owe it to myself to revisit this attitude and read it over now.
Cheers