Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
this is “downvote trolling”….
basically if you have a community that a lot of people hate, people will come in and downvote everything… some will even subscribe and downvote everything.
so, obviously “the boring company” will get a lot of musk hate (and i hate musk).
but yeah, if someone never participates in a comm and just shows up to downvote totally on-topic posts it makes sense to ban them….
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i’ve been permanently shadowbanned from communities i totally liked and agreed with for making a comment that reasonably stated a disagreement with a post… banning for downvote trolling makes sense… even though i do hate Elon Musk….
(the whole boring company community should be deleted because it’s a company owned by a literal Nazi).
Thorry@feddit.org 1 day ago
What are you talking about? Shows up in a community? People see Musk fellatio posts in their All feed and downvote it. Lemmy communities aren’t a closed thing and banning people for voting is dumb.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I mean, the result would be the content you downvote whenever you see it no longer showing up in your feed, so it kinda makes sense?
Susaga@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Tragically, being banned doesn’t stop you from seeing the content, and you can’t block a community you’re banned from AFAIK.
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
i usually read all and i’ve never seen a boring company comm on my front page….
but “the lemmy way” is supposed to be: downvote if off-topic, spam or trolling, or some such, up vote if you like it…
not downvote if you disagree… lemmy is just too small for that at this point.
there are a lot of unpopular communities that deserve to exist that would be obliterated if everyone that hates them voted their posts down.
If you hate a community that shows up, just block that one community and it’s gone for you.
you can block entire instances for yourself….
i don’t think it should be allowed to exist at all, as the owner did the whole sieg heil salute and a bunch of other nazi stuff… but that’s an issue to take up with the instance, and i encourage you to do so and i’ll write them myself….
but in general, banning someone who only downvotes, downvotes “good” posts that should be on the community, makes complete sense.
Aqarius@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Funny, about a year ago, I remember commenting downvotes should be noise filters, not “disagree” buttons.
I got downvoted.
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
i’ve seen a bunch of stuff about how that’s the way it’s supposed to be on Lemmy, but obviously people aren’t doing that…
really if that was the official original intention, it’s a UI issue…
something like Up Arrow and Poop Emoji instead of down arrow… or maybe more buttons, eg:
up, down, poop, or asparagus emoji… and various sorting options based on that….