Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.
Skavau@piefed.social 12 hours agoI think it would be long term corrosive to the honesty of the fediverse, and fall into the same trapping as reddit.
Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.
Skavau@piefed.social 12 hours agoI think it would be long term corrosive to the honesty of the fediverse, and fall into the same trapping as reddit.
remon@ani.social 12 hours ago
I think the same thing about public votes.
Skavau@piefed.social 12 hours ago
I truly don't see how. If you just mean mod abuse, mods will always abuse their power on any site - and the structure of the fediverse makes any mod anywhere more accountable than they are on reddit for bad faith moderating.
remon@ani.social 11 hours ago
It’s not just about that. It’s also an important metric to gauge how the bigger “hivemind” is feeling about something, without having to fear that people will self-censor. Especially on lemmy with it’s extremely narrow filter bubbles. Voting is effectively obsolete if every niche community can pretend to be “popular” because they can just ban everyone that downvotes their stuff.
Skavau@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Niche communities who might be targeted by disproportionate amounts of downvoting are unlikely to surge into /all/ just because they ban people who downvote everything from there. The topic would still be niche.
Skavau@piefed.social 11 hours ago
People still downvote in a specific sense all across the fediverse. It is almost always mass downvoters who get banned by community moderators for that conduct, not people who upvote or downvote selectively in good faith based on specific grievances with the content of the post.