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I am the user in reference. Did I use another instance to down-vote, yes in this case. Why? because I felt I was backed into a corner. In hindsight, I should have contacted the mod admin or whomever, but this was not the first time they have done this to me, it happened also on memes @ lemmy world. I am sure others have come across their behavior on meme sites.
The complete story, which go $fsk yourself conveniently leaves out, is that he is part of a gang/group of users that go around meme sites, and other art related sites, and harass people who use AI. Here is their base of operation. They even use it to not only go after users, but communities. Firstly, some AI memes are hard to detect if AI is even involved. I can hardly tell at times, nor do I really care, but this anti-AI fascist group of users seem to police most memes and point a finger and cry "YOU ARE USING AI!!", as if they alone can determine for us. Didn't the Nazi's do this sort of behavior when they banned/burned "questionable" books?
The real issue is they are using an outside tool, as noted below, to harass users. How do you know this? Well, look at the OP's link to the post in question. Is go $fsk yourself or any of the other anti-AI posters there commenting on the meme's content? No, they are there with their agenda...to harass and bully people who us AI. He is trying to cover it up and play the victim, as they have done before.
I apologize to the community for using the alts, it won't happen again, but there is a much serious issue here. The fact that a user is using an outside tool on your community and others, and even so bold as to teach others, as noted below, how to use it to go after other users. Here is the tool he is using.. The community (Lemmy Shitpost) has already decided to ban this tool going forward. The admin DM'd me. This should be banned by Lemmy World as a whole.
Here is another example of go $fsk yourself going after someone else.
And here he is and his tag-team gang going after lemmy.dbzer0.com.
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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 didn’t read the whole thread so maybe I’m 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)