My comments are suddenly all being mass downvoted. Looking for some help.

[dingus@lemmy.world]

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.

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

It's the exact same 3 users every time, so I believe your assesment is accurate.

[dingus@lemmy.world]

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]

lemvotes.org

[dingus@lemmy.world]

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]

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]

Is voting “vote manipulation” though?

[dingus@lemmy.world]

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]

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

[dingus@lemmy.world]

Looks like there are now four of them. This is very upsetting as I've blocked them and don't want to have to make a new account. :( I've never been systemically harassed before online.

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

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.

[ccunning@lemmy.world]

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]

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]

https://lemmy.world/search?q=ReplaceThisTextWithName&type=Users&listingType=All&page=1&sort=New&titleOnly=false

Search for them with this and you should be able to go to their profiles from there.

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

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.

[dingus@lemmy.world]

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.

[lordmayor@piefed.social]

The thing to do is stop giving a shit about downvotes. They will have zero impact your life unless you give them that power.

[toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online]

If you have to, it might be worth considering an instance that has downvotes disabled. It'd dodge the issue in the future.

[dingus@lemmy.world]

On one hand, I completely and totally hear you. The thing that people don't think about is that they do color someone's initial impression of a comment. So you're significantly more likely to get more negative engagement from others that way. It's why some places/sites sometimes obscure the initial votes for a set number of time.

[steve@startrek.website]

I want you to know you had 2 downvotes and I downvoted you only to make the total 3.