A few days ago my main account ( @irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) and a few of my alts were banned for vote manipulation. (https://lemmy.ca/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=20988171)

While i did upvote 2 posts with the alts, they were both by a friend, and I knew the posts were going to get downvoted anyway. I have since removed the votes (that i know of).

There could be a few posts I upvoted by mistake on an alt without realising I already voted on it.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I mean you broke the rules, there are consequences, not much else to say

[–] irelephant@anarchist.nexus 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I mean, lemmy.ca doesn't have a rule against vote manipulation, and what I did was pretty inconsequential.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

We live in a time where vote manipulation is becoming the downfall of democracies. Any manipulation of a voting system is unfair and misleading regardless of the amount of false votes. Trying to fluff it off as a non issue is just as bad. If votes can be fake then they mean nothing at all.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 points 4 days ago

Vote manipulation is blatantly antithetical to a voting system.

Don't play the sophist.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

You're basically the love child of Putin and Hitler.