I posted this:
https://slrpnk.net/post/2479741
It wasn’t deleted but it has been scrubbed off the timeline of https://feddit.nl/c/thenetherlands – yet the modlog is empty. What happened here?
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Ah, I think I see what happened. A collection of accounts were used to down-vote my post then up-voted a bunch of older posts. This pushed the post off the 1st page in a way that goes unrecorded in the modlog.
Why would someone do that for your post though?
Exactly… makes no sense that that post would trigger a lot of people. We can only guess because down votes don’t come with an explanation.
What I’ve noticed in the nation-specific communities is there’s usually a strong amount of national pride. Denmark in particular but I notice the same in Netherlands communities. If a post can be taken to be negative or embarrassing to the region, criticism tends to be unwanted and down votes are likely.
In the case at hand the post was factually accurate and not really provocative. Since people wouldn’t likely get too emotionally hot-headed about ATMs, it seems unlikely that a large number of people would be so emotionally triggered. Probably just one person with many accounts.
It could be legit.
It might be interesting for #Lemmy to add a smart algo that checks whether a rapid sequence of down votes occurs in a short span of time and see if the set of accounts used for the down voting shows a voting pattern with other posts. Or even without timing analysis, voting patterns alone might reveal accounts used for timeline tampering particularly if the same IP address is used.
