Go read the replies to the comment I linked. Check out their profiles and posting times. If you can make the case that any of the 10 seemingly genuine users who supported the notion “it’s not bots, it’s real users who have run out of benefit of the doubt to give you” are actually alts/sockpuppets/shills go ahead. They seem legit to me, and 10 comments to account for 14 downvotes seems entirely reasonable.

Like I said on the subject of these throwaway ye-posting handshakes: yes, they are obviously part of some type of influence campaign. Hence why they’ve been being removed from communities like ConPro for over 3 weeks now:

https://communities.win/c/Meta/p/15K6OD3gDp/vote-manipulating-single-post-ac/c

Infact, I was literally the first person on the site to point this out:

https://communities.win/c/Meta/p/15JnYkcwCo/some-weird-botnet-is-spamming-an/c