Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think.
Although there’s no UI to look at a user’s voting history yet, one could conceivably be built by an instance. Perhaps coincidentally, I hear there’s instances out there populated by mostly bots?
In fact, Reddit has suspended people for upvoting before.
True, but in Unidan’s defense, it was a jackdaw, not a crow.
We need Unidan back now more than ever 🤗🐦⬛
Multidan.
You’re kidding surely. That’s actually awful. Any source for this? Would love to read more about it.
Not from normal upvoting, but vote manipulation like was mentioned above with unidan. Basically using multiple accounts to upvote your own post for visibility.
Vote manipulation has always been a banable offense on Reddit.
There was a voting ring for an eSports website where they’d share that they posted an article, then go upvote it. Their accounts were all banned. Long enough ago that I don’t remember the website now and my Google fu isn’t working, but Thorin and Travis used to work there.
I want to say the guy who was at the center was named something like ‘Slayer’. He didn’t cover content I paid attention to, so memory is even fuzzier there.