Recently, on the francophone lemmy, there was some discussion on downvote, as some posts (on francophone instance, or francophone communities) gets a lot of downvote without a reason.

Yesterday, I had post going up to -5 before going back to 1. It was a belgian newspaper article about new IA regulation in Europe in the francophone news community of LW. I am glad that so many people are interested in European affair and want to votes. But considering that it’s not the kind of topic leading the heated discussion I doubt these downvotes were even about the topic but either some “random downvotes” or “people who haven’t set their language filter properly”

Just curious if some of you experienced similar issues when posting in German/Spanish/Korean/Russian/whatever

  • @cloudless
    26•3 months ago

    I see unreasonable downvotes on posts everywhere on lemmy.

    I suspect that either there are sociopaths who dislike everything, or there are bots being used to influence visibility of posts.

    • @[email protected]
      29•3 months ago

      I’ve been working on something that can be used to manually identity mass downvoters and downvotees. It doesn’t happen as much as I’d expected, but there are some humorous exceptions I’ve been able to pull with my limited research.

      JLDC(@)lemmy(.)byrdcrouse(.)com, for example, has downvoted someone else at least 15,000 times.

      One of their favorite targets is Viking_Hippie(@)lemmy(.)world, who had accrued over 1,000 downvotes from them alone.

      Linkerbaan(@)lemmy(.)world has received over 10,000 downvotes, including over 1,000 from AlmightySnoo(@)lemmy(.)world.

      BTW, I checked both you and OP out. No mass downvotes that I could see, although my data set is incomplete.