Sorry if it’s a dumb question. I’m not even knocking or shaming, I just think they’re really funny and want to see more if you know of them. Not accounts that downvote, accounts that ONLY downvote. Rare ones. Like weapons-grade haters.
I’d collect them in my user tags. And like, just observe what they respond to.
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I don’t really pay any attention to this but piefed shows an “attitude” score on profile pages indicating the ratio of upvotes to downvotes a person is making.
Yours (OP) is 100% indicating you only ever upvote comments?
I’m not sure how this is calculated and whether it is reliable or captures the entirety of someone’s activity.
I’ve heard that! That’s actually one of the main reasons I haven’t switched, it sounds very neat but I feel terrified of having it evaluate me. I don’t always downvote based on “I don’t like this” or even “I think this should be ranked less visible”. But it might still look like I’m being a dick in a vacuum.
That would mean that my downvotes haven’t federated somehow then. I definitely downvote stuff.
Yeah I had assumed it wouldn’t necessarily have visibility over every comment you’ve ever voted on, but IDK enough about how activitypub works.
I don’t think it’s worth worrying about being evaluated? As in, people with piefed are evaluating you regardless.
it blocks your ability to downvote and ads flags to your account if it deems you ‘negative’.
so it actively punishes you if you downvote too much, or if you get downvoted.
there is a little red ‘warning!’ flag that gets attached to your username when you have low aggregate karma.
it is weird and arbitrary, IMO. When I click through on ‘low reputation’ people, sometimes it’s obvious why, sometimes it’s not clear at all why they are flagged that way.
On piefed the attitude is based on recent votes (50?) not the entire history.
Yeah, I’ve banned more than a few sockpuppet accounts. The thing these people don’t realize is that since votes federate by default, mods and admins can see pretty clearly when you’re using alts to harass people or upvote your own comments.
Wait some people probably have a “downvote account”. Is that what I’m seeing?
It’s wild what some people do here. I got accused of it by someone who simply said something dumb. I got a .world account only for when .today goes down and it literally has downvoted zero times. Hey tacobuttplug, hope you’re still miserable.
So tempting to downvote this post and all its comments ;-)
I knew someone would be, ya little freak ;-)
I’ll upvote everything here just to counteract any possible mischievous damage.
Yes, multiple times. Or downvotes most things at least.
~can you dm them to me, I’m fascinated~
Honestly, if you care enough, you should be able to spin up an instance and then run SQL queries on the PostgreSQL/MySQL database backing the Lemmy instance, which is what lemvotes.org does.
I don’t think I have anything to offer the online world in creating an instance. Or of I did it just to looky-lou at peoples votes it definitely wouldn’t be a very good one
I don’t think I have anything to offer the online world in creating an instance.
I mean, people create single-user instances for their own use. You don’t have to let anyone else use it. I’m just saying that if you’re interested in doing stuff like “give me a list of all users that only downvote”, that’d probably be a reasonable way to do it. Take time to set up the instance, sure, but then you can get more-definitive answers to questions like that and run analyses on voting or whatever.
I didn’t know it was like that. Maybe there’s a lot I could learn just about how the fediverse even works by trying to create an instance
I didn’t know it was like that.
If you go to:
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
And then click on the “Active Users” column to sort by that column and look for instances with 0 or 1 “Active Users”, then look for instances with “Signups” set to “false” (i.e. new users can’t get accounts on those instances), that’ll probably give a feel for about how many “private” instances used by a single user there are out there.
