A few negative votes don't affect you in real life, do they?
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2026
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You can discover who is doing it with Lemvotes
But no, you can't block them. Here in the real world (as opposed to the dystopian centralized platforms that have largely supplanted public discourse), it is not possible to isolate a specific individual and deny them access to information provided freely to the rest of the general public.
Should their public engagement rise to the level of harassment, there are legal options you can take to compel their restraint. But downvoting everything you do does not rise to such a level.
To prove you wrong I down voted this post and I don't remember any interactions with you in the past.
I'm going to say - get over it.
This is not Reddit, where downvoting would actually prevent you from posting.
This is the Fediverse, where, you can keep going. Who gives a fuck?
The whinier you are about being downvoted, the more I think you deserve it. Just like anyone who I've come across who has amassed a lot of upvotes, turned out to be the biggest assholes I've come across.
The whinier you are about being downvoted, the more I think you deserve it.
I would argue that his massive history and modlogs of him being a shitty person with inflammatory comments and toxic takes are why he deserves it. It should be obvious that after two years of mod corrective actions for egregious behavior he's not going to change.
Him doing the "oh, woe is me" act here feels pretty hollow.
How could OP not have seen this coming?
Yes clearly these downvotes are his personal bot brigade and not people just reacting to him being a dick
Downvotes aren't that big of a deal my friend.
I highly recommend going into settings and hiding downvotes from yourself. Stick to dealing with the people who at least bother to engage in written form.
Downvoting is lazy and adds zero value. It's pure masochism to let yourself get even a tiny bit annoyed just because some rando on the other side of the world spent 0.5 seconds clicking a down arrow on your comment - which they probably didn't even read to the end.
I fed a couple of your comments into lemvotes and found out who it was pretty easily. I imagine this is a bannable offense somewhere?
https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/21432178
https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/21432359
Looks like a normal short term lemmy fight, someone didn't like what they said in a thread and opened their history and downvoted everything on the first screen. Going back 3 days and the downvotes stop.
- https://lemvotes.org/user/falsewhite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 downvotes in 2 minutes all against shalafi 6:41-6:42
- https://lemvotes.org/user/falsewhite@programming.dev 79 downvotes in 2 minutes all against shalafi 6:38-6:40
- https://lemvotes.org/user/falsewhite@lemmy.world 87 downvotes in 3 minutes all against shalafi 6:25-6:27, and 6:44-6:45
lemmy.world appears to be their main account, this seems to be the post that triggered them do do their downvoting spree: https://lemmy.world/post/41260627
Looks like the sock puppet master was angry for about 20 minutes, and got tired of manually downvoting. Still pretty terrible vote manipulation making lemmy a hostile place.
I think on the original offending post, OP made some somewhat inflammatory comments about ADHD and Autism further down. I imagine the downvoter felt personally hurt by these comments, hence the temporary spree, driven mostly by emotion. I don’t agree with the vote manipulation but not knowing their full story I would caution against people coming across this and retaliating against this person. It seems like it was just a short response and hopefully they have had a chance to cool off now.
I think this is their main account: https://lemvotes.org/user/krimson@lemmy.world
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Neat! Don't think I have the energy to do much about it, but that's a great site, thank you very much!
Lemvotes is a pathway to many discoveries some consider to be depressing.
Surprised the offender has a db0 account...
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Is it because of that time you were defending pedophilia and regurgitating MAP talking points?
EDIT: or maybe it's the constant repulsive content that has resulted in pages, and pages, and pages of mod actions for years? For things such as: racism, transphobia, actual antisemitism, advocating violence, racism again, and look...
pedophile apologia again...
Man... I wonder why people would downvote you..... it's a a real headscratcher.
I'm not seeing that, pedophilia is a condition and the user was responding in earnest to a comment asking "why?". I personally would not conflate this with defending child molesters
Nothing about that comments comes across as defending it. Also, pedophilia is not synonymous with sexual abuse.
I mean it's a shitty take and really doesn't evidence good understanding of the topic (I used to work forensic psych and have met a LOT of pedophiles) but as far as shitty internet takes go it's meh at most and wild to me that you went to the effort to dig that out from two weeks ago for this discussion.
There were a few pedo defenders in that thread (see the other user that got fully banned for doubling down over and over again). I tagged the profiles making excuses for pedos which is why I knew who OP was (roughly).
Just kinda feel like people who try to equate pedophiles as part of the queer community are probably shitty people. And probably have shitty takes.... and looks like they have a lot of shitty takes. So much that theyre whining about getting downvoted.
I mean, Jesus, just look at their modlog... banned for pedo apologia, actual antisemitism, civility, etc etc etc. Pages of mod actions....
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No matter what you post, someone will downvote it. It simply just doesn't matter
I've had posts with hundreds of upvotes and one or two downvotes. It's interesting to contact the downvoters via PM. Not in an accusatory tone but with curiosity.
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Blocking a user only stops you from seeing them, not the other way around. They can still interact with your posts.
So you're saying falseWhite and krimsom are a stalker!
Very sad and pathetic.
FalseWhite is a serial vote manipulator, so... Yeah. Dude's not even trying to hide; all the accounts they use to vote multiple times on posts use the same exact name.
Though, OP is also a pedophile/defender of pedophiles, so I mean... They're gonna get downvoted by anyone who knows who they are just for that. 🤷♂️
Yeah..uh...nice modlog, OP...
falseWhite mass downvotes from accounts on at least three instances that I've seen. There are several others that I've noticed, but it hasn't bothered me enough to look into it beyond that. I figure eventually these accounts will get banned for something or other, and it isn't worth that much time or space in my head.
careful or jordanlund will silence you for brigading.
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