this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Gonna have to say YDI here sorry. Blanket downvoting is a bannable offense in any community because it denegrates the platform as a whole.
I also want to apologize to the carnivore community for my previous assumptions about the diet as a whole. I had unquestioningly believed a post that labeled the diet as unconditionally dangerous, and I commented encouraging people who had that opinion to report the community. After doing more research, I realize I was mistaken.
While there are risks associated with the carnivore diet, and it certainly shouldn’t be marketed as “for everyone,” when approached mindfully and appropriately, the diet is not necessarily dangerous.
Ironically, I'm not even banned myself, as I participated (and generally don't downvote that much anyway, whatever the community)
What isn't really clear here is that users seems to have been banned for one single downvote? Seems a bit extreme.
Nope.
Only users not participating and either blanket downvoting multiple posts or downvoting specifically this ONE moderator's post banning downvoting without participation were banned.
You are actually the best example here - you have participated and are not banned.
Coming to the community just to downvote is toxic. Since banned users don't contribute, they have no interest being there.
You don't like a certain community - block and move on with your life. Don't behave like a dick.
i’m aware; i said YDI because thats the colloqualism in the sidebar. “you” means the modded users here :P
if you have evidence that it was truly a single downvote ban i would post that because that’s a real issue of algorithm manipulation — but way different from blanket downvoting bans.
How can mods or admins see this?
Votes are public information, its published on the activity feed protocol.
How can they see it?
With just two clicks. Or we can run queries directly on the database, for example to detect downvote patterns. And react if the downvote patterns seem like abuse.