It’s actually a real problem on reddit where people spin up fake users to manipulate votes. Reddit hasn’t published how they detect that exactly, but one way to do that is to look for bad voting patters, like if one account systematically upvotes/downvotes another. But you pretty much can’t without knowing the votes.
I’d wager a fake vote count would be much easier to detect than the same amount of fake users
It’s actually a real problem on reddit where people spin up fake users to manipulate votes. Reddit hasn’t published how they detect that exactly, but one way to do that is to look for bad voting patters, like if one account systematically upvotes/downvotes another. But you pretty much can’t without knowing the votes.