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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.
Yes, I know what the post is about. I'm just talking about generally here. You can downvote, and still be in favour of public upvoting and downvoting.
That's a false premise regarding my position. It's not about any particular number or specific threshold being met. I think it's reasonable for a community moderator to ban someone who never contributes to the community but instead just downvotes anything on the page. Especially if its a small community trying to grow. There are people on my communities now that downvote, but they also interact and also upvote, and they don't just downvote everything. So it's whatever.