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Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.

Punishing users for their individual votes is mod abuse and vote manipulation. You are removing the voting rights of users who dislike your content.

The only acceptable grounds for banning a user based on their votes would be using a sock puppet to vote on a single post or comment multiple times.

If people think your posts are shit, they should be allowed to express that without fear of phantom banning. Suck it up, or delete your account.

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Skavau@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

The only acceptable grounds for banning a user based on their votes would be using a sock puppet to vote on a single post or comment multiple times.

What about if someone entered the community to mass downvote everything? Or did so every day?

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- Coupable@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  What about if someone entered the community to mass downvote everything? Or did so every day?
  
  That’s fine, if the post is legitimately popular, the upvotes will outweigh the downvotes. That’s how all of this works, and how it has always worked.
  
  If I made a metal music community, and an account came in every day to downvote every post because they don’t like metal - would I be justified in banning them for that?
  
  No, that would be an abuse of your mod powers. Conversely, how many downvotes do you think a user should be allowed before you can ban them for disagreeing with you?
  
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  - Skavau@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    That's fine, if the post is legitimately popular, the upvotes will outweigh the downvotes. That's how all of this works, and how it has always worked.
    
    No, this doesn't apply to small and growing communities. Or niche communities of specific interests. When I started up my community, many posts wouldn't get many votes - and an early downvote or two could easily sink a new post from trending at all, leaving it to languish to nowhere.
    
    No, that would be an abuse of your mod powers.
    
    Based on what?
    
    Conversely, how many downvotes do you think a user should be allowed before you can ban them for disagreeing with you?
    
    It's not about numbers specifically. People downvote in my community now - and I see the same names whenever I check from time to time, but they also upvote and contribute - so I am not that bothered. I have only banned a handful of users for this behaviour since I started. Each one of them did nothing but downvote everything, and never contributed at all to the community.
    
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    ech@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Based on what?
    
    You’re actively arguing for vote manipulation on the part of moderators.
    
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    Coupable@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Each one of them did nothing but downvote everything, and never contributed at all to the community.
    
    Downvotes are a contribution, they are just the kind of contribution you don’t like. based on this, I don’t think you area good fit for modding; you should probably look to pass your role on to someone who can moderate responsibly.
    
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BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
hear hear

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