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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.
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.
What the heck
would you share this tool
For now, I'll take requests... But the tool is running on a potato.
i literally have a list, but some of them are my alts. i feel like you've given enough hints that i could probably duplicate your work, though.