• cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    Similar to review bombing, it means someone posts a link to another post, typically shortly after it is posted, and say “Look at this post, it is bad lol” in a community with the implication that your like-minded friends in that community will also dislike and downvote it, then the entire community starts clicking on the link to downvote it, resulting in rapid, coordinated downvoting that completely outpaces any chance of normal, organic voting and discovery so the post gets buried in the algorithm, which they celebrate because they’ve “owned the libs” or whatever.