You crooked motherfucker

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    5 months ago

    What happened to all of the posts reporting on this? Two hours ago the frontpage was top to bottom guilty verdict posts and now this is the only one in any sorting method (including by comments). It suggests they were removed.

    Am I the only one seeing this? Did individual instances manually remove them?

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      5 months ago

      I think new posts just cycle off the main page pretty quickly (I actually like it being that way.) It seems unlikely that Lemmy admins would conspire to get rid of news about Trump – you can try top last 24 hours to see if they’re actually gone or something.

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        5 months ago

        Yes, very strange. Normally “Hot” sorting is good but doesn’t cycle quite that fast for me. Sorting by comments (because a LOT of them had comments) would have returned them, and toggling different sorting methods didn’t return most of them, just the occasional one. Top-Day was the sorting that returned them.

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      5 months ago

      I noticed the same thing. Maybe it’s Kremlin accounts downvoting them, although I don’t think that’s how they usually operate.

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        5 months ago

        I did some somewhat extensive investigation of voting on some propaganda-bot-adjacent posts, because I suspected they were doing some fake voting… I saw some suspicious stuff but nothing really all that incriminating. I didn’t spend too much time on it though.

        Is there one of these stories with a ton of downvotes that you’d like me to look into? I looked at a couple of the big ones about the Trump verdict that dropped off the page just now, and they actually only had a few downvotes each, which kind of rules out that theory.

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          Yeah that’s roughly what I’ve seen too. Some suspicious downvotes but nothing obvious. That’s why I said I don’t think that’s how they usually operate.

          It’s strange though, it’s major international news and I saw two posts about it on Lemmy in over an hour of scrolling.

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            5 months ago

            Lmao, so on the same day that I said this, this comment of mine got 7 downvotes in a space of 2 minutes, 5 hours after I posted it, from a variety of accounts each with one- or two-word nonsense names with the first letters capitalized, perfectly evenly spread out among exactly 7 instances.

            I’m honestly a little bit surprised that the actual real lemmy.ml users can’t manage to muster up enough natural downvotes to overcome me coming in and disagreeing with them, but somebody got salty enough about my comment to feel like it needed a bunch of fake downvotes. Hello @[email protected] – were those you? You posted your comment 3 minutes before the 7 fake downvotes came in. I think you need to be more subtle with your fake voting if you want people not to notice. Federated votes are not private.

            (I actually don’t think that’s any kind of propaganda-bot operation; I don’t think the propaganda bots are that un-subtle, if they are actually doing any kind of fake voting. But who knows.)

            (Oh, also he seems to have replied to himself from one of the fake-voting accounts, agreeing with himself about how wrong I was 😃)

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              Yeah looks like it they decided to suppress your good analysis. I had a bunch of lemmy.ml accounts follow me around and downvote everything I posted on an old account. They weren’t subtle that time either.

              Anyway, now I’ve got you tagged too. “Too legit to quit”, see ya around Lemmytopia.