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.

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;

Unfortunately, instances need to explicitly block snooping tools like lemvotes, and also discover other sites/tools that are exposing votes, and adding them to blocklists. Reach out to your server admins and ask them to instance block it.

So, apparently instances/admins can ban this tool.

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.

I'm not endorsing the vote manipulation, and in fact we immediately banned all his alts from our instance as you are perhaps aware, but didn't mention here, and the user has been warned not to do it again.

But it honestly seems a bit pathetic to be crying all over Lemmy just because someone decided to give you a taste of your own medicine for a change tbh. Especially when you and your contumelious mates go around bullying and harassing folks all the time. Don't you have a shred of self awareness? Your behaviour is 100x more toxic than any genAI image will ever be.

What benefit is there in doing so? If you have the resources, anyone can spin up a federated instance and gain access to the same information that is available to admins and mods. This just makes it more accessible. People could even just use an instance of this Lemvotes tool.

Personally, I think the vote information should be public to all users inherently. This is a perfect example of why.

Yeah that is a good question. The thing is with the moderators, some of them are afraid of this [fck AI] group. I guess they can really take down an instance, community, swarms? We we see. I think it needs to be dealt with at a Lemmy World level.

I haven't been able to use Lemvotes for a couple weeks. Every link I put in just comes up as not found now.

Can you explain how I can see the up and down votes in the communities I moderate? I do not know how to do this, and I am not seeing them.