Any tips on how to handle down brigades on a community? I’ve never moderated before and I noticed and a member noticed it as well.

If it’s just people who don’t like the post is there a log to see that? If it’s a bot how is that handled?

  • Betty White In HD@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    3 years ago

    You seem to moderate a weird, niche pro monarchy community, so don’t be so surprised when you find that people here don’t love it. It’s open to the public, anybody can contribute, upvote, downvote, etc. You’re likely just seeing other peoples’ responses to what you’re putting out there.

    Now it is possible that it’s bots or malicious actors, but it’s more likely that people just don’t like monarchism. For the right reasons, monarchies are outdated and fucking stupid and this doesn’t even seem like an ironic joke community, so they’re downvoting it.

    I’m sure you’re gonna deny all this and still insist that you’re being fucked with, but this is what it is.

    • whereisdani_r@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      16·
      3 years ago

      I needed an objective answer to “down brigading”. I have enough common sense to know the community topic is inherently contrarian, and predisposed to downvotes if it was sorting by all and new. The scenario of people disagreeing and downvoting, was also my natural conclusion. I’ve been working on other development/ server projects to contribute to the fediverse that are technical and it’s a learning curve.

      This question was minor, but I had a panic button moment of “ what on earth did I miss now!? Did I miss something on the documentation for the moderation log!?”

      Every interaction I’ve had on Lemmy has been extremely positive. But I’d be an idiot to not automatically think it’s the content of the community, duh.

      It was fine you took the community topic into context, but you didn’t need to be rude, the cursing I don’t think helps in the support part in the name of the community we are talking in right now. For what it’s worth, being rude and adding unsolicited commentary is outdated.

      Thank you for the actual helpful part of “there is nothing to worry about on the backend, carry on.”

      Edit: I was too “apologetic girl “ in my first reply, New Year’s resolution to not always add “lol” and unnecessary “sorrys”

  • Zaphodquixote@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    3 years ago

    It may not be a brigade. Scrolling all shows you everything (over simplified, but good enough). This is going to expose any post to far more than subscribed users.

    There’s no way to avoid that tbh.