What the hell? Vote manipulation? Anybody else get this?

What the hell? Vote manipulation? Anybody else get this? (catbox.moe)

submitted 5.9 years ago by WhiteRonin

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PuttItOut 5.9 years ago

We banned a bunch of accounts today and sent a tremendous amount of warnings.

I did accidently run a batch with a bad config setting and had to manually reverse things.

I think many that got warnings today may be from things up to two months ago.

We don't check warnings like we do bans, so you can get a warning pretty easily but it's nothing to worry about, just a way of us saying "hey, your account showed up on the naughty report."

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Durm 5.9 years ago

Does that mean with respect to your script as a whole that I did do something, but maybe two months ago?

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PuttItOut 5.9 years ago

Yes. The last time we did manipulation bans was end of March, so this run covered that point forward.

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Durm 5.9 years ago

So I did something you considered manipulation.

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PuttItOut 5.9 years ago

I don't consider it manipulation, it is manipulation. You don't ever show up on this report unless you are targeting another inorganically.

Warnings are used when one or more metrics don't absolutely confirm manipulation, i.e. maybe there was a long convo people had and they hated each other for days of back and forth arguing.

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NeedleStack 5.9 years ago

Warnings are used when one or more metrics don't absolutely confirm manipulation, i.e. maybe there was a long convo people had and they hated each other for days of back and forth arguing.

Then you have a terribly-made metric on your hands because arguments like that happen on voat often and those users don't warrant getting caught up in the dragnet.