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Banned for Voting Incorrectly? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by AceTKen@lemmy.ca to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All (potentially accidentally while scrolling).

Important notes:

  1. I don't use scripts.
  2. I don't mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don't like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on.
  3. Some of the communities I was banned from don't have any posts in them so I wouldn't have been able to downvote anything.
  4. Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It's quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette.
  5. One of my bans reads "Appeal Granted, not a brigading member" but I'm still banned.
  6. I don't troll.

WTF is going on here?

EDIT - Updated Info from the conversation below: In the initial image, you can see two "ban waves."

The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community. It was @Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477

I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.

The other bans from two months ago are from four total downvotes over a 10-month timeframe in one Community.

I have also stated in this thread that I don't have issues with AI-gen images, but there are shoddy ones and well-done ones.

EDIT 2: Now unbanned from the ten Communities listed as "3 months ago" in my initial image, but have been banned from three more because of this thread with the reason given being "self-proclaimed anti-AI brigader" which are two things I didn't claim to be. God dammit Lemmy...

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[-] ipitco@lemmybefree.net 49 points 5 days ago

the whole "if you don't like the content, don't downvote, but just ignore / block it" is really cringe

[-] cmhe@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I don't use upvotes to express my support, I upvote when a contribution was insightful, interesting or funny and downvote when I find the contribution off topic, not helpful or diverting/trollish.

If I personally find something uninteresting, I block. And report if something is against the communities the rules/TOS/law.

[-] ipitco@lemmybefree.net 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

To each their own I guess

Downvoting posts in the All feed isn’t that bad, as it reduces their visibility if you believe it doesn’t interest you at all and probably ~~most~~ won’t interest many other people, so you let a chance to other posts to show up

Edit: typo

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[-] Vespair@lemmy.zip 39 points 6 days ago

That mods/admins can even see who is downvoting is, by far, my least favorite thing about Lemmy.

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 14 points 5 days ago

It is an invariable aspect of lemmy though. It is open source. Anyone can make a server. The servers need to have a database for the up- downvotes and they need the info specific to the user, so it can't just be said by another instance "heres 1000 downvotes, deal with it".

E.g. on reddit and any other corporate social media the admins can also see exactly who up- and downvoted stuff.

[-] Vespair@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago

Admins, not mods. Enormous distinction here. And I don't understand why that information can't be anonymized or attached to a user identifying number rather than username, but I will admit I'm not a develop not a sysadmin so I am a layman speaking outside my field here.

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[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago

These comments are an eye opening experience for me; and I’m not sure I like that feature. It seems whatever the good it does, it’s open for endless abuse because at the end of the day, we are all human and petty at times.

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[-] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

If I get banned for a downvote I dont want to have anything to do with that community anyway.

[-] Korne127@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

Honestly. Doing this when someone makes dozens of downvotes is ridiculous and stupid. Doing this with a single downvote is… I can't even begin to fathom how unimaginably stupid and ridiculous that is.

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[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago

My first interaction with davel@lemmy.ml was him threatening to ban me over downvoting his comments.

One of the first things which made me look into what this power tripping bastard is and yeah, a Russian pretending to be an American who's since been avoiding any communities they're not a mod on.

Dude says things like "reality has a well known Russian propaganda bias" while pretending to be American while supporting Putin.

Lemmy is infested with Russians

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Lol same. It was my first and last interaction and the most pathetically sad threat that's ever been directed at me.

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[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I also got banned from some communities for "systematic downvoting". I'd estimate I've downvoted maybe 5 or so posts by a moderator promoting a harmful diet, which was apparently enough for being "systematic". The mod also banned me from other random communities I had never interacted with in the first place. But oh well, nothing of value was lost for me. Just kinda sucks that mods can use this to make it seem like their statements are less controversial than they are.

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[-] remon@ani.social 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Haha, just noticed I got banned from 2 communities, presumably for commenting in here (they are both dead communities I've never been to). Someone is a very petty and now blocked mod.

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[-] Hubi@feddit.org 24 points 6 days ago

The same user quietly banned me from all their communities for being a "Zionazi apologist" (which couldn't be further from the truth) and it took me over 3 months to even notice.

They are just a special kind of idiot and I hope they don't ever get to mod communities that are actually relevant.

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[-] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 7 points 5 days ago

They are not so much punishing you as cultivating a vote farm. You are just a weed here.

[-] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

My first lemmy account was banned from the fed. Because I spoke ill of Israel. I figured this place isn’t much better than Reddit.

[-] bilb@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

this place isn’t much better than Reddit

It's 95% enthusiastic Reddit users/former users! The advantage (which has pros and cons) is the structure not allowing top down control of the entire network. I prefer this to the monolithic Reddit for the most part.

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[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

PTB

I've had very inconsistent moderation experiences on dbzer0

I'm sure some were because of this guy.

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[-] passenger@sopuli.xyz 16 points 6 days ago

I just block the comms I don't care about, can recommend.

Including that AI generated low effort crap. I don't get the point of sharing that stuff, when you can generate your own if you want. But nowadays I don't get many things anymore.

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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

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