Mearuu

Fair. I can respect that. Give me a few weeks and I’ll present you and the public the reports. To be clear it’s not only users from your instance.

Yes, I’m aware that instance admins can see the votes. I fully intend to spin up my own instance and investigate. After I complete my report on vote manipulation with evidence and send it to you, will you will ban those accounts?

You’re not wrong but you are part of the problem that lets malicious accounts game the algorithms.

Why are you against something that would target bad actors?

It’s not proper to drop names until we have evidence. I could be wrong about a few. However, It unlikely that we are wrong about them all.

I think most people already suspect some of the same accounts and can offer up names but I don’t think they should either. It’s probably best to gather evidence against them without them knowing we are looking at them.

There are several big name accounts on the fediverse that are very likely committing vote manipulation. If you mention it in the thread you will be brigaded. I see it everyday from the same accounts. Those same threads will have highly upvoted AI slop that most times doesn’t even relate to the thread. Not even a Markov chain, just completely unrelated. The same people that upvoted the original post all upvote the same AI slop. Comments that are related to the topic have much lower engagement.

I was going to spin up my own instance to track these people and later put out a report but I am currently way too busy to do that. Maybe in a couple weeks I can get started. If anyone else is as annoyed as me about this feel free to get started tracking these people and share the data with everyone please.

If the instance admin can still correlate the two, then whats the purpose of this feature?

Wouldn’t they be able to do the exact same upvote/downvote calcs as any other instance admin?