Maybe I should add a little context, as honestly it’s much more around the annoyance of having to deal with people that are unhinged online. Dunno what it is about Lemmy specifically, but I’ve definitely encountered more people here per post that will go through my comments/posts to comment and downvote over nonsense than elsewhere.
Like in December, I had the audacity to ask if someone’s post really belonged in the community they posted it in. He proceeded to harass me by downvoting and commenting on my stuff across THREE accounts with no repercussions from admins on either the LW or Reddthat instance their accounts were on. Mods temp-banned him from a few communities it took place in and it calmed down once I blocked the third account and stopped posting for a bit. Then I had a mod on a power trip delete and downvote some of my comments before I got him banned less than a month later over covid misinformation.
It’s one thing if it’s just downvotes on a single comment, but it’s uncomfortable having someone go through my stuff and be that upset at me over nothing. People on Reddit and Twitter have tried to dox me with one dude messaging my old boss on LinkedIn trying to get me fired for discussing why Reddit is severely overcharging compared to industry partners I work with during the API fiasco.
Lemmy needs to make it a lot harder to interact with post/comment history through profiles, as having at least some barrier would help offset the more mildly-unhinged people.
They used the same name on their alt instances. I’m not fucking stupid or going to make a claim without knowing. They were dumb enough to comment using their third alt with a different name on a thread with an admin while posting the same content in the communities they were banned in.
For the account that went through my stuff yesterday, it happened after I posted here and hadn’t posted in days and those threads had no activity. But the negative voted all increased by one on everything I had. Going back a month.
Mod who abused their power was on c/politics and c/world and was removed from the mod team then permabanned after using the group mod account to ban people after their temp ban. I’m the one who called them out to another mod and it got escalated to the admin level.
I don’t doubt you specifically, just seems odd that you’re aware of the exact vote count of every comment you’ve made, to claim that someone mass down voted you by one on each post…
I’m not aware of the exact vote total count and keeping track would be exhausting, but downvotes are rare and are separated from upvotes in my app. So when I see a bunch out of nowhere when there were none before then it’s obvious someone got a little unhinged. Sorry I’m aware of my online presence. Having internet stalkers will do that to you.
Maybe I should add a little context, as honestly it’s much more around the annoyance of having to deal with people that are unhinged online. Dunno what it is about Lemmy specifically, but I’ve definitely encountered more people here per post that will go through my comments/posts to comment and downvote over nonsense than elsewhere.
Like in December, I had the audacity to ask if someone’s post really belonged in the community they posted it in. He proceeded to harass me by downvoting and commenting on my stuff across THREE accounts with no repercussions from admins on either the LW or Reddthat instance their accounts were on. Mods temp-banned him from a few communities it took place in and it calmed down once I blocked the third account and stopped posting for a bit. Then I had a mod on a power trip delete and downvote some of my comments before I got him banned less than a month later over covid misinformation.
It’s one thing if it’s just downvotes on a single comment, but it’s uncomfortable having someone go through my stuff and be that upset at me over nothing. People on Reddit and Twitter have tried to dox me with one dude messaging my old boss on LinkedIn trying to get me fired for discussing why Reddit is severely overcharging compared to industry partners I work with during the API fiasco.
Lemmy needs to make it a lot harder to interact with post/comment history through profiles, as having at least some barrier would help offset the more mildly-unhinged people.
How do you know that happened?
They used the same name on their alt instances. I’m not fucking stupid or going to make a claim without knowing. They were dumb enough to comment using their third alt with a different name on a thread with an admin while posting the same content in the communities they were banned in.
For the account that went through my stuff yesterday, it happened after I posted here and hadn’t posted in days and those threads had no activity. But the negative voted all increased by one on everything I had. Going back a month.
Mod who abused their power was on c/politics and c/world and was removed from the mod team then permabanned after using the group mod account to ban people after their temp ban. I’m the one who called them out to another mod and it got escalated to the admin level.
I don’t doubt you specifically, just seems odd that you’re aware of the exact vote count of every comment you’ve made, to claim that someone mass down voted you by one on each post…
I’m not aware of the exact vote total count and keeping track would be exhausting, but downvotes are rare and are separated from upvotes in my app. So when I see a bunch out of nowhere when there were none before then it’s obvious someone got a little unhinged. Sorry I’m aware of my online presence. Having internet stalkers will do that to you.
Still, it’s internet points and just a random dumbass online. You’re getting worked up about something pretty unimportant.