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[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's what hit me as well: an effort to discredit or even brigade based on nothing but emotive language and feigned helplessness that all boil down to "trust me bro."

But this is the singularly wrong community to come at with "just take my word for it," lol.

The other thing that got my attention was that this six hour old (at the time) account's one post in this community was 1) upvoted ten times in a relatively brief period for what is nothing more than a trust me bro plea to empathy, and 2) it was from lemmy.org, where other vote manipulation activities have recently found a home.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But: thanks to you and many others, we exposed them and learned something useful.

To add to the story, a few people reported this who don’t post in this community and said they regretted posting this, but that they lost access to their account. One even sent a DM.

I decided to leave it up because I feel this community took care of it, and it serves as an educational reminder that we will be attacked. Thanks for making this community better @ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world, glad to have you with us (:

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the shoutout, it means a lot. This is a subject near and dear to me. Always happy to help. I didn't expect you to remove it because it did not specifically break any rules, but. . . it is what it is.

And as long as I have your attention, keep an eye on what comes out of lemmy. org: almost immediately after that list of lemmy. org users I linked to above (all created on the same day, btw) got exposed as participants in vote manipulation, lemmy. org stopped federating vote information, maybe even the same day. So now whenever you try to use lemvotes.org to get info on any comment, post, or user made through lemmy. org it 404's out unless it's historical and prior to that defederation of vote info.

There's one lone admin over there, and he seems to have a side business in "Display & Video Monetization Solutions" which, nothing against that when it's aboveboard, but artificial hype is very much a part of that game in general.

So to me, given all this info taken together, when something comes across the comm that's fishy, also coming from lemmy. org is a solid strike against. It's not a crime in itself, of course, just something for you to be aware of when evaluating a questionable post or comment.