A bit ago I posted on reddit about how gameboys (handheld console) were getting more expensive and Scalpers were making it worse. For a bit the post maintained in the double digits with the occasional scalper downvoting. I went to bed and the next morning- Boom. I had been spam downvoted by people who’s main activity is on Scalper subreddits and marketplaces.
Some of us experience this on Lemmy too.
There are some communities here where users plunge headfirst in groupthought and if you cross their path, good gravy will the down votes flood in. It’s not about being right or wrong, it’s about refusing to acknowledge alternative points of view.
Water off a duck’s back. If Lemmy needs more kindness, be the kindness you seek. That’s my philosophy.
I was so confused to what grout thought was
I was thinking hard headedness
Always in lines
I had no idea until i clicked the link
Ha! Fat finger syndrome! Caught me before the edit.
I find it weird you called it “groupthought” when the word is “groupthink”, and you even linked to the groupthink article.
Thank college psych classes for that one; it’s just how I learned it.
I wrote my post, decided to add a link (yeah, it’s a tad different now) and found my typo. Got distracted after that.
It’s all the same thing though. :)
If you happen to feel like firefox/mozilla could do better by doing anything different, go to any other sub than firefox. I dont remember if it was on world of ml but I left because of this exact thing.
That’s my experience here with /technology…god forbid you like your Apple product - everyone there seems dedicated to shitting on your likes, and by extension, you.
How do you know the down votes came from scalpers and not people that just disagreed with you?
Had a look at some of the commenters profiles, 1 littlerally said in their bio “proud scalper”. Many had posted in various sale groups at very convenient times and a couple I traced to various other sites.
That is something that can happen here too, eventually. Not by scalpers, but still.
@Ignacio downvotes don’t mean so much here though. Kbin doesn’t federate them, Beehaw doesn’t even have them.
Kbin has accountability, it’s nice.
I might not understand your post, it doesn’t federate but it has accountability? what do you mean by that
@Pika I think they are referring to how votes are public on Kbin so we can all see who upvoted or downvoted a comment.
They are in Activity Pub too it’s just Lemmy doesn’t have a function for seeing them.
that makes sense, thank you!
Fun fact! You can actually see them in the modlog. I believe so, when I was a lemmy.world staff member we were able to see who did them.
@Zealousideal_Fox900 that’s interesting!!
I love the fediverse. It feels fun learning and engaging with it.
Yeah sadly lemmy is slowly dying and the .world team are just making it worse.
If you are on kbin you only see kbin upvotes and downvotes.
It also lists the upvotes downvotes and shares
@NoIWontPickaName we can see upvotes from other instances too, it’s just the downvotes we don’t.
oh interesting, I have a kbin account I traverse but I never noticed lol
@Pika it’s in the more tab under activity.
I agree!
Those things are going up in value? I got a few Gameboy colors, one of them is Pokemon Yellow Edition, they’re so old I’d have to dig them out of my dad’s basement somewhere. I figured the switch killed the market since it can play all those old games.
Yeah a bunch of scalpers + shops +YTers are zooming up the price.
