I have a particular set of people that actually follow me from community to community, just to downvote what I say and the articles I post. All because I posted a neutral article about the Green Party to the c/politics sub. That made them mad enough to be obsessed about me. lol

So if you are determined enough to do that, then ya shouldn't be upset that people can see what you're doing.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago (22 children)

Yeah, but then what?

So you have confirmed that you have a fan club that likes to downvote you. What would you even do with this info?

[+] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

However, this particular user has deluded themself into believing this grandiose nonsense that they have a club of users who stalk them to downvote their stuff, when in reality we all come across them naturally because:

Lemmy is a pretty small place.
They're a reasonably prolific commenter.
Every time they show up somewhere, it's a woe-is-me victim complex about how they're being downvoted (immediately drawing attention) or making the absolute shittest political takes imaginable, which again draws attention and downvotes. This could definitely be survivorship bias where I only notice their username on comments that are doing these two things and not on normal ones.

I personally do not give enough of a shit about this user to waste any precious time or effort stalking them across Lemmy. (Source: I came across this post organically and would almost assuredly be one of the users Monk is talking about.)

[+] UniversalMonk@lemmy.world -10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I personally do not give enough of a shit about this user to waste any precious time or effort stalking them across Lemmy.

And I wish more people felt that way!

Got up to 49 downvotes for an article talking about a 90 year-old woman graduating college, brah. In a sub about college, with just 3 subscribers. So I deleted, and posted again. And 10 reports about it being an advertisement (which it wasn't so it didn't get removed). lmao

But yeah, I'm just being grandiose.

And one day after I got called a Russian Troll Farm employee after posting an article about the Green Party in the c/politics sub. With 20 DM's telling me to go back to Russia. Yeah, I'm just being grandiose. Probably all just a coincidence!

And by the way, me talking about doesn't mean I am crying and thinking I'm a victim.

I give zero real world fucks about my downvotes. I'll discuss it. It'd be cool to prove it with a public downvoting system.

But I don't really care if it happens or not.

And fuck all of you, I'm still gonna post any interesting article about third parties I see. :)

But hey, public voting names would def prove me wrong or right. So bring it on! :)

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The specific college was Brigham Young University, a well-known conservative Mormon college that mandates religious education.

The persecution complex with a total lack of self reflection is truly epic.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Moreover, they note that it's a small community with three subscribers, which could actually hold weight as evidence of brigading if we were on Reddit. But on Lemmy? Nah, you kind of just see everything.

If we're sorting by new on /r/all, I need to scroll back several pages on RiF to even see something that was posted 30 seconds ago; the chance that more than a few users will see the same feed there is tiny.

On Lemmy, by contrast, sorting 'All' by new gives me posts in the last 10-ish minutes on just the first page; things just move a ton more slowly. Consequently, there's a lot more outsiders who are liable to see and interact with your post in a small community.

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