User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Coupable@lemmy.world to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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The mod banning these users is the same mod who made the posts they downvoted. This is mod abuse, turning the downvote button into an auto-self-ban button.

The message is "If you disagree with me, you will be banned"

Monitoring and banning users for using lemmy as intended to signal boost your opinion should be grounds to have all mod privileges removed. This behaviour undermines the integrity of the server and the wider fediverse.

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[-] Skavau@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago

That's fine, if the post is legitimately popular, the upvotes will outweigh the downvotes. That's how all of this works, and how it has always worked.

No, this doesn't apply to small and growing communities. Or niche communities of specific interests. When I started up my community, many posts wouldn't get many votes - and an early downvote or two could easily sink a new post from trending at all, leaving it to languish to nowhere.

No, that would be an abuse of your mod powers.

Based on what?

Conversely, how many downvotes do you think a user should be allowed before you can ban them for disagreeing with you?

It's not about numbers specifically. People downvote in my community now - and I see the same names whenever I check from time to time, but they also upvote and contribute - so I am not that bothered. I have only banned a handful of users for this behaviour since I started. Each one of them did nothing but downvote everything, and never contributed at all to the community.

[-] Coupable@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Each one of them did nothing but downvote everything, and never contributed at all to the community.

Downvotes are a contribution, they are just the kind of contribution you don't like. based on this, I don't think you area good fit for modding; you should probably look to pass your role on to someone who can moderate responsibly.

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Downvotes are a contribution, they are just the kind of contribution you don't like.

I fail to see the valuable contribution of an account that has literally never posted on the community they are downvoting in, never even posted on the fediverse, quietly downvoting every single post in a community. It is nothing but vandalism that hurts the growth of new communities.

based on this, I don't think you area good fit for modding; you should probably look to pass your role on to someone who can moderate responsibly.

By your logic almost every single community moderator on the fediverse is not a "good fit for modding" because they too, will ban accounts for spam-downvoting on their communities.