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.
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.
Okay. A day old. Of people hurling insults at each other despite me intervening two or three times asking them to stop. My inbox filling up with reports. What’s the problem with locking it?
That was a lie you just knowingly told. Why should I trust or listen to anything else you have to say?
You can literally observe the thread and see the deleted comments, and see them in the modlog.
Sorry I just think moderators shouldn’t tell lies to retroactively justify their poor behaviour. I think that is a disqualifying action and should not be considered acceptable behaviour from anyone in a position of authority.
Please find someone more trustworthy to pass your moderation privileges to.
You don’t know that I was lying. Does it make a difference if the thread was 2 days old as opposed to 1? What “poor behaviour” would this even be in aid of somehow justifying?
Again: What is the problem with locking a thread that has fallen into back and forth insults?