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How can a community mod ban that tool? It uses federation information, so only an admin defederating the instance used by the tool would prevent the tool from working.
I assume that tool is using a collection of existing accounts to cast the votes? If so, can you just identify which accounts those are and report them to whatever server they are hosted on? I didnโt read the whole thread so maybe Iโm missing some context.
It's basically using the tool owner instance to show upvotes and downvotes (admins always see them as their instance needs that information to count votes accurately)
I have no idea how the admin tools work, so asking the wrong person. He told me they 'plan to' ban it, didn't say how...or when. I have already escalated the issue, now that go$fskyourself and his bullying gang have shown themselves over this incident, to the actually lemmy programmers. They were already aware of this outside tool, and it didn't sound like they were happy about it, but left the issue dangling. I have re-opened it showing the abuse from go$fsckyourself and how it can harm others, so we will see what can be done.
I assume one can create a community and gain admin tools? If that is true, can you then use that tool to also see up/down votes by users outside your own community? If so, that would be another easy exploit for a user wanting this tool.
Edit to add: The programmer of Lemmy replied;
So, apparently instances/admins can ban this tool.
So that's what I meant, this tool cannot be blocked at the community level, which was what you were saying above.
Votes on Lemmy are public by nature, they are just hidden to the general user but it's very easy to show them.
Gotcha, well that is unfortunate, as it is obviously being used by some, go$fsckyourself, for exploit.
I am not following this whole thing very closely to be honest.
People in general should just be aware that votes are almost public, and behave accordingly.
Yeah, you need to read the whole story to see how they are abusing those votes, gang behavior, swarming, by someone down-voting them, using this outside tool. I think there are other exploits as well.
I am well aware of the tool, I sometimes use it myself when it looks like people are manipulating votes.
At the end of the day, it is just that: a tool. What people want to do with it is a different story.
It's most likely that it's just another lie. That's the most likely answer considering this user's history.
I mean, just look at how absolutely stupid this person is being. They try to use this comment as proof I am part of some big conspiracy against AI:

Yet the community it was posted in explicitly forbids AI content:

The entire idea of a conspiracy of thousands of users all working in concert as an "anti AI fascist group" is literally insane. This user is unhinged.