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Vote manipulation bots using sh.itjust.works? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by farcaster@lemmy.world to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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Hi just a heads up. Check out this post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/37758799

It got so many upvotes in a such a short time I checked out its activity from an mbin instance. And most of these upvotes are coming from sh.itjust.works accounts which were all created 2 months ago, most on 2/16, and have never posted/commented. There was a similar post in the lemmy.world/c/world community linking to the same website and having a similarly high number of upvotes within minutes, but that post seems to be gone now.

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[–] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (7 children)

thanks for flagging this, i just banned 346 accounts involved in this scheme from lemmy.world :|

(unbanned at the time of creating the report) accounts posting links to the same domain:

4x sh.itjust.works
2x ani.social
1x thelemmy.club
1x lemmy.ca

accounts i'm highly confident were involved in vote manipulation here:

172x sh.itjust.works
22x ttrpg.network
21x lemmings.world
20x discuss.online (banned by me)
19x lemmy.wtf
18x lemmy.myserv.one
18x leminal.space
18x ani.social
16x endlesstalk.org
7x lemmy.ca
4x lemy.lol
1x toast.ooo
1x startrek.website
1x lemm.ee

[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for taking action! That's a pretty crazy number of accounts to set up for what appears like promoting a few bland articles from a bland AI-generated website.

[–] UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The bot creators were probably just testing the waters to make sure it works. I've been a victim of vote-manipulation bots; they downvote attacked me. So glad to see people are trying to get a handle on this.

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