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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      12 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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        12 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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          12 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.