I’m looking into it using data from my instance to check it isn’t an abuse issue.
What I know so far:
It is a lemmy.world user.
That user has downvoted 548 comments, and upvoted 18. Downvoted 557 posts and upvoted 25.
Timing: the downvoting has been going on for some time, it isn’t a new thing. 71 downvoted comments since 2024-06-01T00:00:00Z, 212 since the start of May (out of 548).
The user has two comments ever, and no posts. One comment, on a thread about the actions of a right-wing American politician, said “Click bait lemmy for sure”. This could imply the downvotes are legitimate and coming from having an impossibly high standard for what is considered quality here, or perhaps they are related to political grudges. I’m going to look further for patterns in the downvotes. I think a bot could have done far more downvotes - so it could just be a human.
I’m looking into it using data from my instance to check it isn’t an abuse issue.
What I know so far: