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.
because downvoting is one of the central actions pivotal to the kind of social media that Lemmy/piefed/reddit is.
For real. What they’re missing is that Lemmy/Reddit display posts outside of their community, aggregating every post to an “/all” feed, and up/downvotes help sort the posts by Hot, Top and such.
Yes, but downvoting something because you don’t like the community is going to potentially lead to getting banned if the mods notice you doing it on there.
And nothing of value will be lost.
So you don’t oppose community mods responding like that?
Of course it’s shitty of them, but I wouldn’t lose sleep getting banned from a random community I don’t care about.
Well fair enough, although I do think (and I know this isn’t the same here specifically) that it isn’t shitty to ban a metal-hater from a metal music community for downvoting everything.
Yeah, that’s great for flagging spam or stuff that’s not relevant to the community it’s posted in. Downvoting content that’s good for a community just because you don’t like the community is like the godbotherers that yell at people about sin during pride celebrations. Don’t be like them.
Downvoting a toxic community is also a valid use of your downvote. Reddit has several examples (gamersriseup, the_donald, fatpeoplehate, among many more examples).
Think of it like concerned citizens yelling at the westboro baptist church for being hateful pieces of shit.
An analogy can really color an argument eh? I don’t usually engage in that kind of rhetoric, I find it undermines the conversation by overtly engaging with peoples emotions.
The community barely exists and certainly isn’t toxic. Mass downvoting is a great way to undermine the conversation though
Which community?
The one pictured in the screenshots, [email protected]
In that case, this isn’t about mass downvoting, this is about users being banned by the moderator for downvoting one (1) post, one (1) time. The ‘mass downvoting’ (read, multiple users downvoting each post they don’t like one time each, as intended, and being banned for it) is my other post.
No, it’s not. You can flag/report/block the author of any posts in the community if you want, but downvoting will not achieve anything of value except of a dopamine rush.
Disagree
How many people did you get to change their point of view and/or behavior after being downvoted into oblivion?
12
The more you try to dismiss questions that challenge your worldview, the less sympathy I have for you being banned from that community.
You are being given all the chances possible to show that you can engage in productive conversation, yet here you are showing how much you care about nothing but yourself.
And you are describing people using their single votes as they see fit as “authoritarian”. You’ll forgive me if I don’t engage in your magical reality. Any conversation with you would be unproductive by virtue of you being involved.
Go and wave your impotent rage in someone else’s face.
Votes are (or were) only meant to work as a signal of what the community thinks to be relevant. This is especially important for niche communities. You are being borderline authoritarian when you are not part of a community and you still think that the whole site needs to have a say in their discussion.
Authoritarian? you need your head checked.
If you feel compelled to try to silence people and try to justify yourself based on your value system, yes, you are being authoritarian.
Also, it’s curious that you only managed to resort to a strawman as a response for me calling you out on your behavior. Surely you can do better than that…
Sounds like someone is salty their little fiefdom of communities fucking suck and get no traction. skill issue lol
Cool, I will take this repeated strawman as as a sign that you simply can not address the discussion at hand, and that each of your responses is making the case for anonymous voting harder to support.
You watch too many debatebro streamers lol. Go away.