We had a couple of reports today of vote manipulation happening in the Australia community. After investigating, I'm seeing a trend:
https://aussie.zone/post/21203876
https://aussie.zone/post/21124048
https://aussie.zone/post/21194319
https://aussie.zone/post/21130833
The votes in all these posts look like this. In this example, only two of the downvotes look legitimate. The rest are coming from three instances that don't appear to be real Lemmy sites. One of them doesn't even resolve.
Hey, I noticed this, this morning on my instance. They're operating out of at least 3,1 day old instances mixed in with a few legitimate older accounts on other instances. We've been discussing it on the Lemmy HQ Matrix.
It seems like this Aussie.Zone member might be involved in perpetrating it as well @[email protected] as they flagged as matching the same vote waves on multiple posts.
Nah, Eureka is legit. He just doesn't think news should be in Australia. And that's perfectly fine. There may come a time where we are getting enough content that we'll want to introduce that as a rule.
Like I said, they popped up in the same vote manipulation against select users as those other accounts did. Make of it what you will.
I often downvote Hotznplozn's posts because those posts are exclusively warmongering propaganda. That is literally the only posts they make here, so I'm usually downvoting those whenever they appear here. Other users have reported them, and their previous aliases, in the Overseas News comm so I'm not alone in thinking this.
edit: looks like an admin has assumed I'm involved and banned me from a few .world comms, along with some other users, so I might contest some of them once I have spare time
I've avoided mentioning them by name in my comments in this thread and elsewhere, but I agree on this.
Haven't been dedicated to downvoting it all the time, but the one track posting behaviour is uncomfortable to see. Its such an unapologetic agenda. I suppose there could be something to respect in it as a user's goal, i don't know.
Similar reason for Zero_Gravitas?
I hope so, i's a bit spun out when i saw them both on this list.
I just checked and I only downvoted ~~two~~ three of those posts.
My reason would have been some combination of a) I thought the posts didn't belong in the comm, b) I thought the news source was low quality, or c) for reasons covered in previous threads regarding “Objectification of our community":
I had noticed and was surprised by the significant downvotes on some of the posts mentioned in the OP. I figured either people were sick of it like I was, or the accounts were just under attack by accounts that serve the same function for the other side(s).
Oof that's a username thst whistles at high pitch
What, @eureka? 'Eureka' isn't a right-wing dogwhistle, if that's what you mean. @eureka is a good leftist - the red variant of the flag for their avatar is a bit of a giveaway.
Right-wingers and racists who uses the Eureka flag (any colour) can get fucked, it's a union flag.