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View submission: Mod tools sidebar change
Having bots to vote on content isn't allowed, also there isn't a way to find out who is downvoting the content easily but you can have your human mods upvote the content to balance the votes.
Comment by nastafarti at 11/02/2021 at 21:07 UTC
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Well, good to know.
there isn't a way to find out who is downvoting the content easily
I guess this is part of the toolkit I'm looking for. I've been looking into this for a couple of weeks, and reddit *does* track upvotes and downvotes and link them to accounts. Somebody is using a bot to vote on the entire contents of our sub. It's killing us. A new member shows up and posts, full of enthusiasm. Maybe there's a small amount of discussion. And then a few minutes later, their post is downvoted, their comments are downvoted, and we never hear from them again. Somebody is trying to wreck our sub. I've been tasked with finding a solution.
I want a behavioral filter. If an account comes along and downvotes the entire sub in 30 seconds, it should be easy enough to screen for total upvotes vs total downvotes for any given account, within x amount of time. If we catch them and kick them out, they can just create a new account and keep doing it. The filter has to be tied to a behavior, not an account.
I've found a developer who deals in PRAW, and I'm looking at starting to spend money out of my own pocket to try to come up with convincing evidence that this is in fact happening and current mod tools are inadequate. We're a small team, and we lack the energy of a bot. We can't take shifts to manually upvote every post on the sub; we also want to be able to use our votes meaningfully.
Even if you don't have a solution to suggest, you can surely see the problem that we have and be sympathetic. Also, if you have any solutions to suggest,,,