Is that even technically possible?
Yeah, with lots of alts or bots. No different than reddit though. I said something against bitcoin on r/monero once and got 40 downvotes within minutes.
I am sure any user posting that is from this instance will be downvoted once the bot farms realize what this instance is about.
True, let em bring it on!
We COULD disable downvotes on the instance but that seems like a very cowardly thing to do :)
True. Let em downvote, truth shall find the way to those who seek it.
It is a good metric to see if over time the downvotes decrease, then weknow more people are waking up to the necessity of Monero.
Yes, it could be bots, or really persistent humans.
I’ve noticed every monero post gets a automatic 3-5 downvotes.
Sorry to link to reddit, but here someone is demonstrating how to show who voted which way from the lemmy instance admin level.
Yeah, dude, you can spin up a Lemmy instance right now with however many accounts you want and federate it, votes federate too. Votes are basically useless on Lemmy as any sort of metric of popularity or anything. The problem will be worse than on reddit and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
Now why the fuck is this post downvoted to negative?
I tossed an upvote to help counter. Certain terms and topics definitely trigger the downvote brigade here and elsewhere. Admins probably have a bit more insight into how much of it is bot traffic vs organic.
I always thought that these problems are unsolvable with link aggregators that have a voting system and traditional forums are just better in so many ways
