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Another good reason not to use reddit: Scalpers. (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world
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A bit ago I posted on reddit about how gameboys (handheld console) were getting more expensive and Scalpers were making it worse. For a bit the post maintained in the double digits with the occasional scalper downvoting. I went to bed and the next morning- Boom. I had been spam downvoted by people who's main activity is on Scalper subreddits and marketplaces.

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[-] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Some of us experience this on Lemmy too.

There are some communities here where users plunge headfirst in groupthought and if you cross their path, good gravy will the down votes flood in. It's not about being right or wrong, it's about refusing to acknowledge alternative points of view.

Water off a duck's back. If Lemmy needs more kindness, be the kindness you seek. That's my philosophy.

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 14 points 5 months ago

I was so confused to what grout thought was

I was thinking hard headedness

Always in lines

I had no idea until i clicked the link

[-] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 4 points 5 months ago

Ha! Fat finger syndrome! Caught me before the edit.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I find it weird you called it "groupthought" when the word is "groupthink", and you even linked to the groupthink article.

[-] HollandJim@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

That’s my experience here with /technology…god forbid you like your Apple product - everyone there seems dedicated to shitting on your likes, and by extension, you.

[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 5 points 5 months ago

If you happen to feel like firefox/mozilla could do better by doing anything different, go to any other sub than firefox. I dont remember if it was on world of ml but I left because of this exact thing.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

How do you know the down votes came from scalpers and not people that just disagreed with you?

[-] Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Had a look at some of the commenters profiles, 1 littlerally said in their bio "proud scalper". Many had posted in various sale groups at very convenient times and a couple I traced to various other sites.

[-] Ignacio@kbin.social 8 points 5 months ago

That is something that can happen here too, eventually. Not by scalpers, but still.

[-] livus@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

@Ignacio downvotes don't mean so much here though. Kbin doesn't federate them, Beehaw doesn't even have them.

[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social -2 points 5 months ago

Kbin has accountability, it’s nice.

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I might not understand your post, it doesn't federate but it has accountability? what do you mean by that

[-] livus@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

@Pika I think they are referring to how votes are public on Kbin so we can all see who upvoted or downvoted a comment.

They are in Activity Pub too it's just Lemmy doesn't have a function for seeing them.

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

that makes sense, thank you!

[-] Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Fun fact! You can actually see them in the modlog. I believe so, when I was a lemmy.world staff member we were able to see who did them.

[-] livus@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

@Zealousideal_Fox900 that's interesting!!

I love the fediverse. It feels fun learning and engaging with it.

[-] Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Yeah sadly lemmy is slowly dying and the .world team are just making it worse.

[-] TheVillageGuy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 5 months ago

time to all move to another server then

[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

If you are on kbin you only see kbin upvotes and downvotes.

It also lists the upvotes downvotes and shares

[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

@NoIWontPickaName we can see upvotes from other instances too, it's just the downvotes we don't.

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

oh interesting, I have a kbin account I traverse but I never noticed lol

[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

@Pika it's in the more tab under activity.

[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

I agree!

[-] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Those things are going up in value? I got a few Gameboy colors, one of them is Pokemon Yellow Edition, they're so old I'd have to dig them out of my dad's basement somewhere. I figured the switch killed the market since it can play all those old games.

[-] Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah a bunch of scalpers + shops +YTers are zooming up the price.

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