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.
Also you badger and pester users who disagree with you, which is extremely unprofessional conduct for someone in a place of even minor authority.
You reply to me (especially if you hit me with accusations), I’ll usually reply back.
As I said, you are not stable or emotionally mature enough to be running a lemonade stand.
So just personal insults now basically.
No, this is my observation based on this conversation.
You are not emotionally equipped to be in a position of authority. That’s not an insult, that’s my opinion, and one which I have exhaustively outlined and is borne out by this very conversation.
Please stop clutching pearls, it is not an adequate response to my pointing out your history of unprofessional behaviour.
Behaviour that is completely ordinary for most community moderators across the Fediverse. If you object to how I moderate then you would also object to more-or-less every community moderator.
“The other children are doing it too”
My point is that you have serious issues with the fundamental governance of the entire Fediverse. I mean you even took grievance with locking a thread that fell into back and forth mudslinging over multiple days. That’s a completely normal moderator practice.