The mod banning these users is the same mod who made the posts they downvoted. This is mod abuse, turning the downvote button into an auto-self-ban button.
The message is “If you disagree with me, you will be banned”
Monitoring and banning users for using lemmy as intended to signal boost your opinion should be grounds to have all mod privileges removed. This behaviour undermines the integrity of the server and the wider fediverse.
Thanks for the context and for cross posting, this is turning into an interesting discussion across a wider variety of skill sets. Skill sets, as in the following: power users, people who don’t like mods and have done it before, people who have never modded but know exactly how it should be done, basic end users who are former mods.
Hey Verity, I support your right to do this (note: those are all my comments), even if you don’t!
Have a great day, and don’t shy away from that downvote button <3
Wow, you’re calling me out too and I’m not even a mod any more. Keep that powdered wig high and lice-free, Robespierre.
hah ‘Robespierre’ - Good one, probably.
Just funny you are serial downvoting in defence of banning people for serial downvoting :D
Let me guess, hypocrisy is only cool when you do it.
That’s not hypocrisy. People who support moderators rights to ban people from their community for mass downvoting aren’t saying no-one should ever downvote, and that all bans for downvoting are automatically justified.
This post is about threelon banning multiple people for downvoting one (1) time on one (1) post.
And it is hypocrisy, along with a helping of poor reading comprehension apparently. If you disagree with this post, you would actually have been banned several times by now lol.
But seeing as you are talking about my other post, how many times do you believe a user should be allowed to disagree before it warrants a ban for disagreeing too much?
Yes, I know what the post is about. I’m just talking about generally here. You can downvote, and still be in favour of public upvoting and downvoting.
That’s a false premise regarding my position. It’s not about any particular number or specific threshold being met. I think it’s reasonable for a community moderator to ban someone who never contributes to the community but instead just downvotes anything on the page. Especially if its a small community trying to grow. There are people on my communities now that downvote, but they also interact and also upvote, and they don’t just downvote everything. So it’s whatever.
Downvoting is contributing, just in a way you apparently don’t like.
You should step down as a mod. Also please leave me alone, we have already had this conversation, and I made myself very clear.
I disagree.
You literally just asked me a question, and I replied.
Furthermore: This is a public thread. I’ll reply to who I like.