FYI @rumschlumpel@feddit.org @breadsmasher@lemmy.world @Pfeffy@lemmy.world @superkret@feddit.org @Pending_Jokester@lemmy.world and a few others
A rage bait post they just restored: https://lemmy.world/post/24282976. The initial removal was about rule 3 - no rage baiting. That rule has been removed.
Another rage bait comment against vegans: https://lemmy.world/comment/14535452
For people tired of this topic, feel free to hide the post, except if you’re on Lemmy.world which is still running on 0.19.3 (that feature was introduced later)
Hello @Serinus@lemmy.world,
Do you know when the announcement will be made about the new “respectful dissent” policy? This seems to fall under this scope
Coming to the community, especially a small one, just to downvote without posting a single post/comment is antisocial as fuck so stuck your rage where the sun don’t shine, sweetie.
Your reference to “respectful dissent” shows you don’t understand what the rule means - it is to encourage participation, ie posting and commenting. Blanket downvoting has exactly opposite effect discouraging participation.
Yeah, don’t go to communities you dislike and downvote everything. It’s a dick move. Just block them.
The initial removal was about rule 3 - no rage baiting. That rule has been removed.
Well, that explains why the posts were restored? Mods are allowed to change rules, right?
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com , @unruffled@lemmy.dbzer0.com , @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat could any of you have a look at the votes on this post?
Another comment getting instantly 5 upvotes, and my post and comment getting 3 to 5 upvotes at a low traffic time seems suspicious
Not really, just curious. This community is pretty closely followed, so I’m sure people are going to have a look anyway.
By the way, what do you think about the removal of the “no rage bait” rule?
Since you wont respond to DMs
You have 3 times now, indirectly called for a community I’ve been running to be removed (plus a bonus time after I left the mod team of a community). I’ve tried to discuss with you in DMs, but you don’t respond.
I think the recent politicking you have demonstrated shows we are no longer working collaboratively toward a lemmy for a diversity of viewpoints and communities.
You don’t owe me a response, but we have been collaborators in community building, so I would have liked the curtesy of some response to DMs.
Since our professional relationship has broken down, I can’t collaborate with you on !showsandmovies@lemm.ee any more. I’ve transferred the community to your BoozeOrWater alt and left the mod team. You worked really hard in promoting that community, and by all rights it should be yours.
Hm… I’m not sure it is worth bothering too much about, honestly. That said:
There is a little bit of a suspicious pattern. Three different accounts, all active during the same short span of time (space of 6 minutes) during a quiet time, all giving one downvote to the post, and then a couple downvotes and upvotes in the comments boosting a particular point of view in slightly different ways.
One of the suspicious voters seems to be to be clearly a bad-faith political propaganda account, which is interesting. I have a theory that some of the political propagandists like to incite pointless drama related to specific mods, or specific hot-button issues like veganism, just to add noise and unpleasantness to the system, and give a vehicle if they want to attack some particular user or get them riled up to motivate moderator action against them.
Just a little bit of correlation doesn’t necessarily mean anything, of course. Sometimes random data contains stuff that looks like patterns but isn’t. On the other hand, two of those accounts are on the same instance, which means it’s easy to send a DM to one of the admins pointing it out so that they can check to see if they’re coming from the same IP or other indications that they’re the same person doing voter fraud.
Do you think it’s worth bothering? A small amount of voting fraud is kind of the nature of the beast, and it’s hard to be sure about this kind of thing.
