Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All (potentially accidentally while scrolling).
Important notes:
- I don't use scripts.
- I don't mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don't like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on.
- Some of the communities I was banned from don't have any posts in them so I wouldn't have been able to downvote anything.
- Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It's quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette.
- One of my bans reads "Appeal Granted, not a brigading member" but I'm still banned.
- I don't troll.
WTF is going on here?
EDIT - Updated Info from the conversation below: In the initial image, you can see two "ban waves."
The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community. It was @Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477
I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.
The other bans from two months ago are from four total downvotes over a 10-month timeframe in one Community.
I have also stated in this thread that I don't have issues with AI-gen images, but there are shoddy ones and well-done ones.
EDIT 2: Now unbanned from the ten Communities listed as "3 months ago" in my initial image, but have been banned from three more because of this thread with the reason given being "self-proclaimed anti-AI brigader" which are two things I didn't claim to be. God dammit Lemmy...
If you want to have a debate about my diet, I'm open to that - but just downvoting every post you see because you don't like it... that doesn't work for me - that isn't the kind of community I want to grow.
I don't want to debate your diet, just want to add my voice of disagreement to it (i.e. downvote). There was nothing systematic about any of my votes. I came upon your posts without seeking them out, read them and thought they shouldn't be promoted, so I downvoted them to reduce their algorithmic visibility and voice my general opposition. I upvoted people who argued against your points, as I agreed with them and wanted to promote their viewpoints. In my opinion, that's quite a normal way to use this platform. Otherwise, do you also ban people who only upvote you without stating why they agree with your points?
That is a fair way to use the platform, since private communities are not yet a thing we have this weird disconnect between small communities and people who don't like small communities.
My view is I'm trying to create a safe space for people to talk about a thing, but random people keep looking around at all activity and exporting their negativity since they don't like the small community. So this weird "please block things you don't like" state is the best option we have until subscriber only communities become a real feature.
Let's say you don't speak German, when you see the german posts in the ALL feed do you downvote them each and every time because they are in a language you don't understand?
That's not a very good comparison, they were specifically stating they down voted something they thought was harmful and shouldn't be promoted.
For your example it would be closer to seeing a post written in German but it's a post saying positive things about Nazis or something.
Then yeah, I would hope people would down vote it.
I support you. Stay strong against the serial downvoters and don't let them bully you.