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(How) Does Lemmy prevent brigading and other vote manipulation? (feddit.de)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CaptainBlagbird@feddit.de to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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Unidan could just create an account on multiple instances and vote for his posts/comments with all these accounts. That way his content would gain more attention than those of sincere users.

In case of malicious bots (like those annoying bootleg bots on reddit), it might even be profitable for them to create their own instance(s) just for that purpose.

Is there a mechanism to prevent that? (other than user/instance banning and the introduction question on user creation)

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[–] zabby39104@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Brigaded up-votes are almost as harmful as brigaded down=votes. Down-votes also keep out the trolls until a critical mass of trolls has been reached. Hopefully there are more advanced methods in the future.