Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)…

What you see via the UI isn’t “all that exists”. Unlike Reddit, where everything is a black box, there are a lot more eyeballs who can see “under the hood”. Any instance admin, proper or rogue, gets a ton of information that users won’t normally see. The attached example demonstrates that while users will only see upvote/downvote tallies, admins can see who actually performed those actions.

Edit: Obligatory RIP my inbox.

  • Corkyskog
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    1 year ago

    Funny enough that was actually a trolling method discussed at one point on 4chan. Basically the troll was to find new back and forth between two people and quickly downvote the person after someone replied so it seemed like they were doing it. Not sure if it ever became a thing or not, but trolls are aware of the psychological aspect of it.