Dr Ian Cutress's take on the current situation

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What bots…

To be fair, it's probably an LTT fanboy who systematically downvoted all the posts, and started with the ones that were recently active. But it's not like the LTT audience is foreign to using automation or harming others/raging.

All votes are public.

No. All votes are public to instance owners. Plus I'm not convinced that only votes drive "activity" (If you wanna prove me wrong, you're free to go check the source. THAT is actually public).

Edit: please see below about votes being public or not, before drawing premature conclusions, they are not public. But there's nuance, hence me striking the "absolute" text out.

At least from kbin so there’s no conspiracy. You can see who upvoted and who downvoted.

Kbin only shows favorites. They don't show actual upvotes/downvotes (which is a good thing IMHO).

But it's not like you would check anything properly before opening your mouth... Which I reckon is a very annoying, and widespread trend. I mean you can clearly see the post has 8 upvotes, 18 downvotes; and kbin shows 10 "favorites". How does that even compute for you? 🤦‍♂️

Edit: I was made aware by @ImaginaryFox@kbin.social and @conciselyverbose@kbin.social - both kbin users, this is not a fluke - that "upvotes and downvotes are actually visible". I have not been able to confirm that. However, given that this information is clearly available to instance admins (and to the software, obviously), it is very likely that kbin developers decided to show this information to (kbin) registered users, to narrow the information/power gap between admins and users. They also (wisely) kept this information behind an id-wall, as it is really sensitive information, especially if made crawl-public (it is much more revealing of user behavior than their posts or comments; and therefore that much more valuable for profiling).

Besides, to bury a post, you actually have to make the other ones active... smh

I'm eagerly awaiting your single word insult answer, or something equally enlightened.

With immeasurable love,
Your enamored shmoopie