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PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated
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In case anyone's wondering this is what we instance admins can see in the database. In this case it's an obvious example, but this can be used to detect patterns of vote manipulation.
“Shill” is a rather on-the-nose choice for a name to iterate with haha
I appreciate it, good for demonstration and just tickles my funny bone for some reason. I will be delighted if this user gets to 100,000 upvotes—one for every possible iteration of shill#####.
Oh cool 👀 What's the rest of that table? Is the
actor_id
one column in like... anupvotes
table or something?actor_id is just the full url of an user. It has the username at the end. That's why I have censored it.