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

• remon@ani.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  IMO, it enforces some sort of accountability to people’s voting behaviour.

  But that was never something that was needed.

  Instead now you get mods like this going around banning people for votes, intimidating people for voting which is removing the communities ability to hold bad posts accountable.

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  • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As I said in this thread to someone else.

    There are accounts who genuinely do go around downvoting en masse without any contributions. When I was growing my community, I caught about 5 accounts - some with no post history, and no contribution history on my community doing it. They also had a long mod log history of bans for doing it elsewhere.

    So I banned them because they kept burying new posts.

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Doesn’t seem sound like a major problem to me.

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      • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It is to growing communities. My community is large and not controversial enough to worry about that much now. But it was not always like that

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  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel like it is to a certain degree, to discourage trigger-happy voting behaviour that pushes the masses one way or another… this dude is just a clown.

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But these clowns are surprisingly common and much more of a problem than some trigger happy votes.

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      • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Then power-hungry moderators who behave like this can sully their reputation, risk the ire of the instance admin who may remove them over this, and if not - also risk the ire of the fediverse who might just recreate their community on another instance and supplant them.

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      • subignition@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And it's a lot easier to notice and act on bad behavior when activity is public. Maybe on a centralized service that can afford full time moderation staff, you could restrict that information more effectively, but considering the fediverse is community driven, I think this is an effective choice

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      • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’re probably right about that.

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