are mods privy to this behavior and are there any tools at their disposal to combat bad faith ‘brigading’ as such?

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    There are a half dozen or so people that cause 90% of all negative behavior according to an admin on another instance. LW does not seem to take responsibility and act to stop these 0.0001% of bad users.

    Mods can’t see jack ****. Only admin see that info.

    Unfortunately LW doesn’t take updating the Lemmy version seriously either. The server version is WAY behind and the very next version of Lemmy adds the ability to turn off all negative votes at the user level. That single feature would likely improve the mental health of most LW users substantially.

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    2 months ago

    From what I’ve heard, admins can’t really do anything about repeat offenders / downvote trolls because of something about scanning through databases or something. But then I also saw a post yesterday about how Friendica reveals the usernames of people who upvote and downvote, so it seems like that information is accessible in the API or framework of the Fediverse.

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    2 months ago

    That is something that follows me, too. There seems to be a person petty enough to give a downvote to about everything I post. Must be a really sad and lonely existence to have nothing better to do than that.