After reading this post here I took a deep dive into the database and ran a few queries to see if I could use it to detect some basic manipulation such as brigading or other types of persistent hostile behavior.
I’d describe this as people who could have blocked a certain community but instead seemingly dedicate themselves to continuously downvote posts, maybe because they don’t like furry stuff in general.
Each line in the image corresponds to one person and how many times they have downvoted posts in a given community.
I won’t take any actions right now, this is all very experimental. I just wanted to share this with y’all to let you know that we admins have tools to give us clues about whether some sort of brigading is going on.
Interesting stuff. Personally, I’d urge people who don’t like furry stuff to just block a community and carry on. There’s nothing to be gained by obsessing yourself with stuff you don’t like.
Wow, a perfect example of how people make up statistics from nothing. Maybe the better option is to find a way to reverse block the childish babies who decide to go and downvote everything on furry instances.
I clearly made that up, who has ever done such a real stats? In real world furry is such a niche that 99% is likely an underestimation. What I am trying to say is that you guys will always get downvoted, because most people genuinely don’t like furry stuff. The best way for you to avoid it is to stay out of majority of people’s sight. Out of “all” feed. You win, average lemmy user wins, all are happy. All subscribers of your community won’t anyway join from all. You don’t lose anything. Visibility is more of a problem than a benefit for this sub. Ask the developers for an option to opt out of “all”, and your problem will be gone
“In real world furry is such a niche that 99% is likely an underestimation”
In the real world, animated furry characters, anthro or not, are among the most popular and beloved and have been for decades. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is the most recent breakout success amongst the general public. Furry characters are loved by the general population.
Are you really comparing disney’s robinhood with the content that appears on “all” from this instance?
They are 2 very different things
Furry stuff is cute. Why would 99% of people dislike it? I’m not gonna join furry communities because I’m not a furry, but I’d probably upvote furry content if it appeared on all and I’d think it would be sad to keep it off there.
To be fair in the context of the main topic here, it looks like all the communities being down voted are porn. Not quite the same as seeing a beloved furry character from a hit movie if they are engaged in lewd behaviour.
But they can always block them and forget about it than go looking specifically for it and down voting it.
Such is censored generally, so they have to go out of their way to see such.
Also don’t get why people would have a problem with seeing such unless it was like gore, but I acknowledge that often people do have a problem with such.
Yours is not a common opinion, but that’s beside the point.
The issue here is a combination of end users not using the block functionality, and a major flaw in how it’s implemented (you have to visit that which you want to block.)
You’re never going to change end users’ behavior, so the beatings will continue until blocking functionality improves.
That’s already a thing, it’s called banning them from the instance. Though I can understand why they wouldn’t want to start banning people for downvoting alone, it might be seen as extreme, but it also could be seen as necessary since these people are brigading the instance.