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I don't know the answer to this question, maybe someone else will chime it. If I were to guess though, typically things that "disable downvoting" on Lemmy simply ignore it and fail to display it, which is consistent with how blocking and defederation handle other things.

For example, Beehaw has defederated with Lemmy.world where my account is. I can still see Beehaw posts to communities on other instances though. I can reply to those posts, and people on other instances see my comments. The Beehaw commenter cannot though, it's a sort of see-no-evil-hear-no-evil situation, but the evil is still out there for everyone else. I believe blocking works the same way for comments, it's a one-way block on your side... they still see you and can interact with your stuff in ways that others can see, unless I'm mistaken.

I'd expect blocking yo interact similarly with downvotes if it interacts at all. But I'm not positive.

Admins can definitely do more though, like banning/deleting the sockpuppet accounts.