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Also I hate to sound like a lemmyworlder here but their latest reply to me had 5 upvotes within 2 minutes of being posted. I think the belief that we're manipulating votes has led some of these specimens to take preemptive last resorts
There's 100% something going with votes ever since a month or 2 ago, Yog started randomly getting ~10-20 more upvotes out of no where on random comments and posts, often time's in less than 5-10 minutes, it was especially strange when it would happen to one of his comments sandwiched between a comment he was replaying to and a comment replying to him, but it's very inconsistent it doesn't happen all the time and I haven't noticed any patterns to it, and then I noticed it happening to a few of my comments too, and I see suspicious vote behavior like that here and there now too, I suspect there's either someone testing voting bots to see how well lemmy instances can detect them, or it's just some strange lemmy bug that hasn't been reported yet.
I asked one of the lemmygrad admins to check these two comments of mine that I noticed, https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/1359803 https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/1361307 and see if they noticed any strange accounts upvoting them, but I never got a response
Concerning
Every one of their comments has exactly 5 upvotes, it's so obvious and embarrassing lmao. Like watching someone shid and fard all over the floor while screaming "I'm not owned!"
They literally have several alts they use to upvote their posts lmao.
I look forward to the day when I see "preemptive last resort" on the newest Hexbear iceberg
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I'm sure @[email protected] is working on a "Hexbear federates" update of the iceberg already
Y-yup, comin along smoothly, folks, definitely not only getting around to it right this second