Possible New Troll Tactic - FYI

[TheHermit]

I have heard from people that no longer post in the forum, because it always invites a new wave of 1-vote attacks, that a new 'Divide and Conquer' attack may be underway.

Recently they have gotten anonymous feedback e-mail claiming that the latest 1-vote attacks are because the writer supposedly feels that authors in a specific story section are voting against authors of other types of stories.

I have done enough research into the voting fraud problems to suspect this is simply a new angle to get author's angry enough to help the trolls by engaging in revenge voting. I have communicated with enough victims of fraud voting/1-votes to know it is happening to top rated stories in every category.

Some of those I heard from, that were recently attacked, have been very supportive and helpful to me in trying to eliminate the Troll/Bandit Factor, efforts that resulted in the reform suggestions I posted in this forum recently.

It is unfortunate that you can't see the distribution of votes for each story so all could see how widespread the 1-vote attacks are.

The Hermit

 

[its Leslie]

It all comes down to, how much are we writers truely worth to the site, and how much do we have to do, to get a new system put in place to make us feel hapier.

If we are not critical enough in numbers (or at least the unhappy ones at the very least), then nothing will be done, because it will be a non issue complained over by an insignificant minority.

That is the only statistic that will matter in the end.

 

[its Leslie]

Speaking of trolls though eh, my avatar is for the unknowing, a flame throwing tank. Trolls hate fire.