Or some self entitled 3rd party admin would do that just because they’d feel like people owed them explanations.
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rglullis@communick.news 4 weeks agoWe can fix that by having moderators that can establish clear guidelines and show enough authority and can be trusted by the community. And yes, if the guidelines include something like:
Downvotes are not for disagreement. It's fine to downvote if the argument is false or deliberately misleading, but if someone is making a good faith argument that you disagree with, either make a constructive response or simply let it go
Then the mods would be completely justified to call out users who are drive-by downvoting.
AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
rglullis@communick.news 4 weeks ago
Hey, do I owe you anything for all the space I’m taking in your head or am still living rent-free?
AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If you did it would not be rent free, or would it, einstein. But no worry, i don’t think about you, just this topic and your enthusiasm for it triggered my reply :)
Have a downvote for going off topic and “personal”.
rglullis@communick.news 4 weeks ago
You are the one pontificating in my comment, and I am the one going personal. Seems like you reasoning is as good as your reading comprehension.
But hey, thanks for stopping by!
shadowbert@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But… we had those on reddit. I didn’t see many actual examples of the “moderator gone power crazy” stereotype that is so often echoed there (especially by people who fully deserved the moderator action they received).
The issue wasn’t that the rules were clear. The issue was that people refused to read them in the first place, and became hyper-defensive and obstinate whenever they were called out on it, even by moderators.
rglullis@communick.news 4 weeks ago
No moderator went on to call out users who were down voting for disagreement, because this data is not public on Reddit.