I don't believe it counts votes from instances that have defederated from lemvotes.
MelodiousFunk
joined 2 years ago
This isn't about drive-bys. This is about users who engage in bad faith. Take a look at OP's pic again.
4650 downvotes.
19 upvotes.
That's not happenstance.
Add in people in convertibles who aren’t wearing safety restraints (or a failure of said restraints) if/when the vehicle does a 180° flip (for any reason).
Just a troll account.
Guys, you're missing the point. It has to be square.
I just finished Advocate, book 3 of Daniel M. Ford's The Warden series. I've been really enjoying this world. The first two books ended on cliffhangers, and the year wait between entries was killing me. Book 3 ended with a nice wrap up of one arc and a setup for another, both building up the bones of a larger story that's been looming ominously.
The problem is, it looks like Tor has dropped the series. The Warden and Necrobane were available in hardcover, but Advocate only got a TPB release. I can't find anything concrete about book 4, and according to a friend of a friend (and taken with the appropriate grain of salt) sales weren't good enough on the first book (?!?) to warrant re-upping the series.
I'm bummed. I found out about Ford's first series, Paladin, through word of mouth. I thought it was okay - a little tropey in places, but once he found his pace it was entertaining enough. Then he did some detective stuff that I had no interest in, but when I heard that he was doing another fantasy series, and that it got picked up by Tor, my interest was piqued. The result so far has been a marked improvement from Paladin, and one of the few things to poke through my deep depression these past few years. And now it's all in limbo.
Maybe I'm overreacting. I'm not going to pretend the know the machinations of the publishing world, and maybe someone else is going to pick up the series. It's just frustrating to find something nice and get it yanked away.
Anyway, rant over. I enjoyed my time with this series regardless of its future. If anyone else has read it (or has heard any news about continuation), I'd love to hear your thoughts.
What day is it, anyway?
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/20408569
This one has been bugging me for awhile, so I don't know when it started. But images in-line in the text portion of posts show at their original resolution, and do not scale down.
Example: https://50501.chat/post/19511
Etc
Possibly related, images that are wider than they are tall don't scale down in comments.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18961205
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I know exactly who this is, even without the username tip-off. Here's what their record looked like in September:
I happened across the user when looking into a string of -1's on brand new posts in a small community. They were all the same person, and that person downvoted 244 times for each upvote.
This on its own is not normal behavior. Combine it with this user's comments - which are pretty much completely on brand for the average Lemmy user - and it becomes even more bizarre.