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

Yeah, I mean it depends - doesn't it? If someone is expressing a text-based opinion post you dislike, I can see that. If you think the articles source is corrosive - I can see that. If you think its off-topic, I can see that.

But supposing someone found a metal music community, and downvoted everything there because they don't like metal - would that be reasonable?

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Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That probably wouldn’t and would obviously be vote manipulation. This situation is pretty rare and is ignored, like on YouTube, because people get bored and most people wont go out of their way to do this

Problem is: Lemmy’s algorithm is shit and doesn’t learn from our preferences. If it did, we would see less posts that we dislike

People just can’t stand being disliked. Should we ban people disliking crypto posts? Because damn most of my posts are disliked based on people hating and spreading lies about crypto just because they dislike it

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- Blaze@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  Problem is: Lemmy’s algorithm is shit and doesn’t learn from our preferences. If it did, we would see less posts that we dislike
  
  Piefed has keyword filters that can help with that issue.
  
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  - Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Keywords filters are really basic. Most people don’t want to bother with that, or risk hiding interesting posts
    
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    Blaze@lazysoci.al ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I filtered “musk”, “trump”, reduced the amount of US politics post tremendously
    
    I might add “kirk” at some point, depending how much it’s still discussed in the coming weeks
    
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- Skavau@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  That probably wouldn’t and would obviously be vote manipulation. This situation is pretty rare and is ignored, like on YouTube, because people get bored and most people wont go out of their way to do this
  
  Absolutely, it is rare. But people do it. As I've said before, I banned 5 people on the original !television@lemm.ee instance for just downvoting posts repeatedly. No pattern. None of the accounts were active on the community n terms of posting. Some of the accounts had never even posted on the fediverse - they were simply downvote accounts that purely existed to vote negatively on content.
  
  Problem is: Lemmy's algorithm is shit and doesn’t learn from our preferences. If it did, we would see less posts that we dislike
  
  Piefed has much more control here. People can easily just block communities though.
  
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