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Hello. I've found that rather suddenly, all of my comments within the past week have exactly 3 downvotes. These are even on totally unassuming comments, like a comment I posted saying that French is used in a lot of African countries.

I believe it might be possible that I am suddenly being harassed be a user with multiple accounts or something.

Looking for some guidance.

Thanks all.

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[–] dingus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you. How did you see who is downvoting me? Curious what I can do with this information. If they are following me across multiple communities then I'm not sure who to report them to.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dingus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Thank you. I see them now. Do you know how I would go about reporting them and to who? Tbh I'm a bit confused on how this works with federated communities. It's not as if we're all on the same collective.

Will blocking them help stop them from mass downvoting me or no? Will they still be able to see and downvote?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm not sure there's much you could do except report them to the admins of their respective instances for vote manipulation.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is voting β€œvote manipulation” though?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is when you use multiple accounts to vote multiple times on the same content.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Agreed - I guess I just interpreted it as having pissed off multiple people.

But if all three votes come at the same time (or same IP assuming mods/mod log have that info) that would be a pretty big clue.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It occurred to a huge number of comments suddenly at 3:05-3:30am-ish. And then another user today just now. This is what it looks like for all of the comments.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

it would appear you've found your fan club.

now that you've identified your audience, it's time to start crafting content for 'em.

this could be an entire new hobby

Yup, report to each instance and since you're on .world, to the .world team as well. I'd recommend matrix or a ticket for .world.

That kind of behavior is pretty well frowned upon no matter which instance.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Do you happen to know how I can send a message to someone on the fediverse without navigating to their profile? I'm a bit slow but I can't seem to figure it out. When I go to the instance in question to figure out who the admin is, I can't message them because I am not logged in on that instance. Because my account is on lemmy.world. I tried searching their name in the post/comment search feature, but they don't seem to always pop up that way.

There is a "messages" tab where I can view messages that I have sent and received, but I can't figure out how to just send a new message to a user there without clicking on their profile first.

Thanks for your help. I guess I wasn't expecting that to be confusing unless I'm missing how to do it.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You should be able to navigate to their profile from your own instance and hit the button to send a DM to them. AFAIK there's no place to just type in the user's account name and send them a DM without using that button unless using an app that has that functionality.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I guess that's my difficulty. I don't how to navigate to their profile from my instance. I only know how to go to their instance to find their profile.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If the instance you use hasn't altered the folders used by default you can just append "/u/<user@instance>/" to the url and it should go to them.