Earlier today I made a comment that someone must have found controversial, because I noticed that all of my posts and most of my comments made in the last month have received about a dozen downvotes each, all happening today. Has anyone experienced anything similar and is there anything that can be done to combat that sort of thing from happening? I think that reddit used to only shadow downvote when voting from a user’s profile. I’m assuming Lemmy isn’t that advanced yet.
Honest question, if you pinpointed that person and blocked them, could they still downvote you?
I don’t know the answer to this question, maybe someone else will chime it. If I were to guess though, typically things that “disable downvoting” on Lemmy simply ignore it and fail to display it, which is consistent with how blocking and defederation handle other things.
For example, Beehaw has defederated with Lemmy.world where my account is. I can still see Beehaw posts to communities on other instances though. I can reply to those posts, and people on other instances see my comments. The Beehaw commenter cannot though, it’s a sort of see-no-evil-hear-no-evil situation, but the evil is still out there for everyone else. I believe blocking works the same way for comments, it’s a one-way block on your side… they still see you and can interact with your stuff in ways that others can see, unless I’m mistaken.
I’d expect blocking yo interact similarly with downvotes if it interacts at all. But I’m not positive.
Admins can definitely do more though, like banning/deleting the sockpuppet accounts.
Thank you for taking the time to explain. I hope we see a solution to these things.
In my laptop I use voyager and opted for the option to hide votes. Though that solution is just for me, lemmy will still see the votes and relegate and rank my comments accordingly. If someone mas downvotes me then my comment or posts will still be buried.