slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works to cats@lemmy.world · 8 months ago[Meta] There seems to be a downvoting bot around here. Every thread and every single comment has at least one downvote. Is there any way to fix this?message-squaremessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10
arrow-up15arrow-down1message-square[Meta] There seems to be a downvoting bot around here. Every thread and every single comment has at least one downvote. Is there any way to fix this?slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works to cats@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareradix@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoI think there’s a way to look up the logs of who downvoted and then you can just block them. It won’t block them for everyone else, though.
minus-squareslevinkelevra@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoThe bots are trying real hard to bury this post. Guess I triggered the keyword. How does one look that log up? And does blocking a user really disable them from downvoting your post?
minus-squareXTL@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoOr maybe this isn’t the kind of content (even well tagged meta) that lots of readers want to see or think is good in general. Of course, traditionally any whining about downvotes or other vote manipulation should be met with downvotes.
I think there’s a way to look up the logs of who downvoted and then you can just block them. It won’t block them for everyone else, though.
The bots are trying real hard to bury this post. Guess I triggered the keyword. How does one look that log up? And does blocking a user really disable them from downvoting your post?
Or maybe this isn’t the kind of content (even well tagged meta) that lots of readers want to see or think is good in general.
Of course, traditionally any whining about downvotes or other vote manipulation should be met with downvotes.