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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hello, not sure if this is the right place to ask, but is anyone else being massively downvoted on every comment? I noticed this started happening after the DDOS attacks on lemmy.world. If you check my profile, you'll see what I'm talking about. Almost as soon as I post a comment it's at -10, etc.

Have I pissed off someone, or is it a possible bot attack? I try to keep most of my comments cordial, which is why this is confusing me. Thanks.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It makes it impossible to quickly assess whether a how-to video is legitimate or full of misinformation and mistakes.

I guess if someone is operating under the premise "what is popular is correct" they would find value in votecounts. I dunno, I might browse weird though; I dont read community names, usernames or look at vote count.

I always saw votes as being for the entity (YouTube, Reddit etc) so they can serve up what's popular to users so they're more attractive to users.

Again, lemmy is rarely active enough for comments to be banished and all of which is ignoring the fact that the numbers are meaningless just migrate.