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.
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.
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.
Replying here as it’s higher the thread , but the other person you were replying to just seems to be sealioning.
Also, a 3 months old account with 3 posts, 2 about moderation issues, seems like an alt looking to stir up drama.
I think you’ve made my point for me. You should really find someone more emotionally stable to moderate your communities.
How on earth have I showed emotional instability?
And my communities are doing fine, thanks.
Absurd hypotheticals, loaded language, repeated block quoting, relying on anecdotes to add emotional weight to your opinion.
I just don’t think you are impartial or thick skinned enough to be in charge of moderating conversation.
edit, cleaning up a grammar error :D
What hypothetical? Loaded language? What?
Block quoting? I just reply to longer post in chunks. How is that emotional instability?
You mean my own experiences as a moderator growing a community? What else should I rely on here?
How have I showed any sensitivity at all?
I think we’re done here.
I mean you are the user who took the conversation closer to being personal, not me.
You can add extremely defensive to that list I made a few comments ago.
I think it’s quite reasonable to object to being personally attacked based on different opinions on public voting and community policies surrounding it.