Why is vote "fuzzing" so extreme?
I've been noticing the number of upvotes on posts fluctuate wildly...from 12, to 350, to 150. Pretty wild swings. I know fuzzing is needed to combat bots, but I had thought it was more like at the few % level, not orders of magnitude...
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Web socket issue apparently. Definitely a bug, there is no vote fuzzing at all
Yeah code has it where is shows up/downs raw.
It's this; the score isn't fuzzed, it's the real score, but from a wrong post.
Oh, I assumed it was just a bug.
Pretty sure it is a bug
It’s a bug. One of many related to how the UI updates in real time using websockets. The good news is they are getting rid of websockets in the next release, and should fix a lot of these issues.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1093
@[email protected] maybe a featured/sticky post pointing to currently open issues in GitHub would be helpful?
I have nothing to back this up but I assumed it was due to federating everywhere. And calculating the actual total, dealing with duplication etc.
Would be great to see someone with a bit more know how chime in.
I doubt there’s any deliberate vote fuzzing here—reddit did that to prevent karma-farming bots from figuring out if they were being detected and blocked, but with no permanent karma, that shouldn’t be an issue here.