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Is it a PTB move to ban a user if their only activity in a community is downvoting posts? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is it a PTB move ([email protected]) to ban a user if their only activity in a community is downvoting posts?

The behaviour baffles me a bit. If they dislike the majority of the posts in a community, why are they subscribed? Or if they are browsing by /all, why have they not blocked the community? Are they under the mistaken impression that Lemmy has an algorithm which uses downvotes as an indicator for "show me less of this"?

Has anyone else encountered a "serial downvoter" in any of their communities?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well worded.

Just to add to your example (which is nice by the way, quite good to see such interactions happening), I've seen the opposite, when you identify an account with literally 0 comments, not even just on the community, but on the whole platform, and who systematically downvotes everything, the will to reach out to them might be low.

Because, let's be honest, as you said, the place is small, and if I were to find you downvoting every post on one of my communities, I would reach out to you. Even if it's someone with just 1 comment a few months ago on a completely unrelated community. But if it's an account as I described above, I'm not sure if I would hold a grudge against someone banning them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Oh, yeah no way would I be mad if someone felt the need to just ban and be done. I've been on the receiving end of zero communication bans a few times tbh, and hold no grudges about it. Sometimes a mod just has to handle business and move on, leaving it on us users to put in the effort to appeal. That's a valid choice imo.