Saw this a lot on Reddit. Its not specific to here, just trying to gauge how people think. I’d see people posting about how “X said this! Have you seen what else they said in their site history?” And a stream of votebombing would happen.
I also wonder if this behaviour went the other way. Bias was confirmed, so profiles get a little boost? There are sites that hide posts and comments after a certain number of downvotes, but these always seemed to get the engagement even after.
Or it could go the other way - it could confirm the bias of others who have bad views of the world. It could actively connect them. And trolling is not always a bad thing, its been used in the past to tackle big corps who’ve fucked up for one thing.
We aren’t talking about big corps though, we’re talking about regular users. This is lemmy, not reddit, no big corp to tackle here. And just closing off information such as comment and post history because “trolls could find other trolls to group up with” isn’t an issue if the common users goal is to block and report bad actors.