We had a couple of reports today of vote manipulation happening in the Australia community. After investigating, I’m seeing a trend:
https://aussie.zone/post/21203876
https://aussie.zone/post/21124048
https://aussie.zone/post/21194319
https://aussie.zone/post/21130833
The votes in all these posts look like this. In this example, only two of the downvotes look legitimate. The rest are coming from three instances that don’t appear to be real Lemmy sites. One of them doesn’t even resolve.
Wait, mods can see which member downvotes a post?
Anybody can see it. The info is very lightly hidden, and available to anybody with an ounce of interest.
Full disclosure: I honestly thought everyone could. 😆
Mods can see all votes in communities that they mod, up and down.
Admins can (I believe) see all votes, full stop.
This is correct, with the caveat that the votes must have federated with the admin’s instance (so other instances need a user to be subscribed to the community in question, and votes can take time to flow through).
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