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Showerthoughts

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[–] ceenote 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't care what you say, I'm not going through your history and upvoting everything.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I did it instead. No regerts.

[–] Captnkrk69 1 points 3 days ago

Not even a letter?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

Might it just be people being happy to recognise someone sharing their point of view?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Who is checking their own post history's upvote count?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Detecting that would require a skill set.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You mean like a particular set of skills? Skills you acquire over a very long career?

[–] Lost_My_Mind 6 points 3 days ago

If you let my post history go now, that'll be the end of it. If you don't, I will look for you. I WILL find you. And I will give you a discerning disapproving look. For like....a really long uncomfortable silent time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How to get someone banned.

Step 1: Copy the targets username but add a "-1" to the end of their name.

Step 2: Upvote every of their comment.

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Congrats, you are an asshole!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Are mods actually dumb enough to assume someone would be dumb enough to include their own username in the vote brigading account though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Mods are no different from normal users. They'll ban you if you say something they don't like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Eh, mods are kinda like cops, shoot first ask later.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

........? I'm stupid. I don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I think they're suggesting it would seem like the user is upvoting their own comments with an alt, which could get them banned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If I make an account with the username "Lost_My_Mind_1" and keep upvoting your comments, it would look like you were doing voting manipulation and both accounts get banned.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 1 points 3 days ago

Oh, ok. I am stupid then. I thought you were saying that while logged into ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed, you would navigate to Lemmy.World/c/Lost_My_Mind-1 and downvote some kind of ghost account.

I was like "Small brain doesn't understand. Big stomach is hungry!!! ME WANT FOOD!!!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I sometimes do that, but only like 3 or 4 posts/comments, not the whole history.

When I read a comment that makes me double-take, I check whether this is a troll that spouts a certain kind of contrarian take on every thread (you know the kind I'm talking about), or if it's someone who posts reasonably most of the time but will put out a mind-provoking thought once in a while. I think the latter is fine and part of healthy discourse, so I'll upvote the unpopular take and some of their reasonable takes that I checked.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 4 points 3 days ago

You're a good person.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Coughing on people in 2020 gave me plenty of erections.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Just one extra upvote for you, smartass :).

[–] ZephyrXero 6 points 3 days ago

I have that habit 😅 ...but I've never seen a reverse trolling

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Hard NOT to upvote such a based comment history. ✊🏼

[–] spankmonkey 4 points 3 days ago

Never noticed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Actual schizo behavior lmao I love the internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

No no no, we don't do that kind of critical thinking around here, blind outrage posting is the only allowable form of communication!