Hello - Please take a look at @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world . They have downvoted every single post in 3 communities (over 200 posts) in a very narrow window of time. They either automated their voting, or they are very focused

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    11 days ago

    This is exactly the kind of post I would have been happy to have in a discussion in any of the communities you saw fit to downvote the entire post history of.

    Mass downvoting is bad for Lemmy as a whole, it makes the entire ecosystem hostile for participation

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        11 days ago

        So what you’re saying is you’re happy you did all the down voting? And you would do it again?

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          11 days ago

          Nah, next time I would probably just report communities like that to instance admins to hopefully have a better effect. The broader point is that engagement with disinformation doesn’t work; it amplifies it. It’s why the far-right has surged globally: negative engagement with disinformation is engagement and fuels its reach, and disinformation is an order of magnitude easier to create than it is to debunk.

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            11 days ago

            Downvoting is negative engagement.

            As long as Lemmy is a place for different communities to exist our presence here is a net positive.

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      10 days ago

      Mass downvoting is bad for Lemmy as a whole, it makes the entire ecosystem hostile for participation

      Nah, spreading lies is the bad thing, not downvoting them.