are mods privy to this behavior and are there any tools at their disposal to combat bad faith ‘brigading’ as such?
There are a half dozen or so people that cause 90% of all negative behavior according to an admin on another instance. LW does not seem to take responsibility and act to stop these 0.0001% of bad users.
Mods can’t see jack ****. Only admin see that info.
Unfortunately LW doesn’t take updating the Lemmy version seriously either. The server version is WAY behind and the very next version of Lemmy adds the ability to turn off all negative votes at the user level. That single feature would likely improve the mental health of most LW users substantially.
Uncheck this box in your settings and move on to focus on things that actually matter.
I don’t think DVs matter all that much. Actual interaction (comments) is much more rewarding. I think DV are more about knowing reach—who has read a comment or post to interact with it. If you get no votes and no comments you might wonder if it’s worth the effort if no one is seeing them.
Someone else suggested not showing DV separately, but I suggest the opposite. 10 UV and 8 DV look like only 2 UV but you actually had ten people like your post. So mine are split and I only really pay attention to UV. Particularly on the occasions when I know I’m saying something unpopular and I’m going to get DV, those UV are the folks who silently agree but maybe didn’t want to take the heat for saying a thing.
Beyond that, if folks are responding to you with comments, even insightful disagreements, IMO that’s a much more rewarding interaction.
And lastly, maybe look at your posting habits. If this is a big problem for you, it might be worth examining if there’s something you ought to do differently.
Mods? No. Admins? Yes. But as even my own experience at the hands of the masses shows, that doesn’t mean they’ll take sides.
Just turn off voting, it’s a net negative.
From what I’ve heard, admins can’t really do anything about repeat offenders / downvote trolls because of something about scanning through databases or something. But then I also saw a post yesterday about how Friendica reveals the usernames of people who upvote and downvote, so it seems like that information is accessible in the API or framework of the Fediverse.
That information is in the database it isn’t exposed via the api but if u run an instance u can query the database urself.
That is something that follows me, too. There seems to be a person petty enough to give a downvote to about everything I post. Must be a really sad and lonely existence to have nothing better to do than that.
