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Vote fuzzing. Are we seriously doing this here now too??
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What is the comment in particular? It is possible that someone was sorting by new comments on the front page, which would show your comment regardless of the original post's age. Or it could have been some odd bug, but there is definitely no vote fuzzing on Lemmy.
The comment was "I guess Shrek has a GoPro around his waist"
okay I'm glad to hear there is no vote fuzzing here, so maybe it was some odd bug, or if perchance someone was sorting by new comments on the front page, it must've been FOUR PEOPLE all at once because suddenly I had 5 points and then suddenly it went back to 1.
Keep in mind it can take a few minutes or longer for some votes to come in from other instances due to how federation works. Sometimes a group of votes can get backlogged and all come in at once. Other times they’ll show instantly. It’s just a minor tradeoff to using decentralized social media
Yes, that makes sense. The problem is there shouldn't have been any upvotes at all. and certainly not 5 all at once this morning that suddenly disappeared. It should've been an old abandoned post pretty much. But now that I've brought yall's attention to it, any upvotes that might happen from this point forward I'd consider inorganic, So we can't really study this particular matter now.
It's at 1 for me. I'll take a looks in 2 hours.
Yes, 1 point is normal and that's all it should've ever had. The problem is that a few minutes after it was a new comment, suddenly it had FIVE upvotes all at once this morning, then it went back to 1. It was an old abandoned post and there was no reason anybody else would have been there, especially not four people upvoting one comment all at the same time.
Anyway now that I've brought yall's attention to it, any upvotes that might happen from this point forward I'd consider inorganic, So we can't really study this particular matter now.