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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Context: PugJesus often spams low quality posts across the dozen or so communities they mod, apparently downvoting low effort spam on my frontpage is trolling. The only other action in the modlog is a different ban for 74 years for "Mass downvoting innocuous content," so it definitely seems they are just banning people that dislike their spam. Glad we're not missing out on the reddit mod experience here.
https://lemvotes.org/user/abbotsbury@lemmy.world
IDK why you find the history memes stuff to be "low quality spam," it is one among the unique things about Lemmy that actually make me like it. It is the number one community on piefed.social for example. But definitely the accusation of mass downvoting seems to be pretty accurate. Do you do anything other than mass downvote popular content that you personally don't like?
(I actually agree that in general people shouldn't ban for this type of downvoting in most cases, that part I agree with you on. But this kind of absolute freakout and energy investment on your part about the history memes and artifact posts and etc, I think has a lot more to do with what's going on with you, than it does anything about the content itself. Why are you so mad about it?)
Blocking pugjeasus is the best move anyone on lemmy can do
PTB/CLM.
I think that "Mass downvoting" is a valid reason for a community ban, but I would expect a temp ban if it is not a repeating behavior.
But it isn't trolling by itself. That bad qualified ban could have a bad impact in others mods or admins evaluating the OP behavior.
May be in the future, communities should choose who can vote (subscribed, instance members or any user) and then only been show in the corresponding feeds. But I suspect that most of the mods that ban downvoters don't want that they community posts don't be shown in the All feed.
~~This is why piefed implemented an anonymous voting option, so power tripping mods can't ban you for down voting their posts.~~
Never mind, I guess the power tripping mods got it removed.
Wasn't that option removed eventually due to it breaking social aspects of federation?
Yes, instead it was replaced with an option to have votes federate or not.
Yes, and some of us mods had automated banning proxy voting a little before the feature retirement
One could always curate their own feed instead.
I do, but I also like going on all to see what is out there. Unfortunately it can get buried when the same person is spamming a dozen submissions in a couple hours.
Just block him?
do yourself a favor and block PugJesus. they're a turbolib that borders on fascist more often than not.
