Open letter to the spammer

I noticed a lot of down-vote attack on whatever topic about Monero.

If down-vote spam continues, I have more than 800 trash accounts to suppress your unindexing attempts, I could even put posts in trending.

Don't make me "evil" (by starting botting activities) please, because I'm a winner in this domain.

athos77 6 points 2 years ago

Cool, an open reason to block your account.

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Nononynous 1 point 2 years ago

Feel free to do it. Have a good day 👍

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shortwavesurfer 3 points 2 years ago

Of course, some people are going to down the topics about freedom and privacy, preserving technologies, because they don't want freedom and privacy to exist. Our entire instance kind of goes counter to the fediverse culture in general.

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Nononynous -2 points 2 years ago

I just want to say to the guy under these attacks that I can be a stronger metrics dictator than himself

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admin 3 points 2 years ago

Please don't. I'm considering to purge most votes (with the exception of like the top 100 posts/comments) anyways since they take up an unreasonable amount of space compared to everything else, will probably do a meta post asking for feedback at some point.

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Nononynous 2 points 2 years ago

My bad for being angry like that, I dont want to make this server expensive since it's a very good place.

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admin 2 points 2 years ago

Don't worry, I get it. It's also not really about it getting more expensive but more so the fact that you can't easily expand the storage with our current provider and ideally we'd get one more year out of the current one before doing a full migration.

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itsmect 2 points 2 years ago

Creating a bot that spams upvotes on your own instance is easy. And so is blocking all downvotes. But either approach does not really fit this instance, and I'd argue we'd loose one of our major advantages.

If you want to help out and have sufficient skill, I'd highly appreciate some method to detect bots and spammers reliably, so that those accounts could be flagged automatically.

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Nononynous 0 points 2 years ago

To suspect spam attacks (doubt is still important):

Verify if up/down votes are coming too fastly
If the topic isn't controversial or malicious ect, there's shouldn't have vote attacks (expect on user-targeted spam).
Bots can come from multiple federations. The only way to notice them is pretty random username without sense & their post/comment activity is dead.

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jet 0 points 2 years ago

Is it the same accounts every time down voting? What content do they post? If they don't post any content how can you retaliate?

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Nononynous -4 points 2 years ago

I can't know, but it's a global problem on any account (old/fresh/"doxxed").

When someone haves raising interest on his post, you'll notice instant double down-votes very few minutes after.

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jet 1 point 2 years ago

You can know. Every lemmy instance has a list of which users uploaded and downloaded each individual post. It's part of the federated protocol

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Nononynous -1 points 2 years ago

I'm not the admin and you can make tons of accounts across the lemmy network. It's really really difficult to mitigate until you don't cut federations and that very probably an other reason of previous federation cut events

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Nononynous -2 points 2 years ago

Downvote harder anon, I need to know your botnet's weight 😁

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