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What's the deal with the constant downvotes on the constantly recycled 'My beloved King' / 'For You, My Hero' / 'For my awesome prince' / etc. community? - EDIT: Did I say something wrong? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Dicska@lemmy.world to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world

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It might be a different user, a different community name, but it's always the same: mostly NSFW pictures (sometimes not even revealing), 0 comments and a ~-6 score. The pictures are mostly about an erotic/romantic encounter between two people. Then the community disappears, resurfaces with a randomly similar name, and the same happens again.

Why?

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I think it's a single user who is trying to start some sort of a soft core porn community oriented towards women. The attempts keep failing (getting downvoted), so they just spin up a new user account and community (with a subtly different name each time) and try again. Ad nauseum.

It's getting really annoying. I've blocked ~~several~~ a couple of the accounts and communities. But a ~~week~~ month or two later a new one appears in the new stream.

And they are not helping themselves. The more communities they spin up the more downvotes they get, because quite a few people are clearly getting annoyed by this behavior.

I don't have a problem with them creating such a community. Not my kind of thing, but each to their own. I just wish they'd stick to a single community and take the time to build it up, instead of spinning up new ones all the time.

Edit: fixed some number and date inaccuracies.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean, I was aware of it probably being the same user, and I get the downvotes from the 2nd/3rd attempt - what I don't understand is the mass downvotes on the first one. Not my thing, either, but I don't find it any more irritating than any other average NSFW content.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When you say "the first one", are you talking about the first community? Or the first post on the latest community?

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The first community (... I've seen about this, already being disliked).

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Oh okay. Whoever is behind this has been creating and then deleting these communities for over a year now. I guess I exaggerated a bit before when I said they sound up a new one each week. It's more like every couple of months. I've seen at least seven of them pop up. If one was created on the last couple of weeks then the number of downvotes could be because others are tied of this behavior too.