I downvoted maybe half a dozen posts. They were all right-wing bullshit and I realized that’s all the user has ever posted so I got out of there. The next day I see more of his junk and go to downvote but can’t because I’m banned.
Sure it was a dick move to poke the bear about his lifestyle of only posting things that get downvoted, but he. Went. OFF!
Accusing me of alts, thinking I’m obsessed with him, message after message… I probably have more in my inbox right now but stitching this image together took long enough.
I want to say CLM… If a community really doesn’t want downvotes, why not setup the community on an instance that doesn’t do downvoting?
If downvoting is “manipulation” just because you don’t like it… why allow downvotes at all? Lemmy supports disabling downvotes. It’s a checkbox for the admin. It’s easy.
Because people don’t like instances where they can’t vote but the admin wants their space to be popular while maintaining ideological control.
Good point, but if the admin doesn’t disable downvotes like you are saying, then the mod can’t do anything about that. It would be cool if mods had the ability to disable downvotes.
Then talk with your other mods… close that community and open one somewhere that does disable them. I just don’t buy the excuse in the 3 pixel image from the mod basically blanket saying that downvotes are just for manipulation… Yeah I’d be a loser to go somewhere and only downvote every single thing… but I don’t see how 100% of a single user downvoting literally every item is manipulation at all, everything would go down pretty equally.
I go out of my way to downvote things that I think don’t contribute. I don’t necessarily upvote everything that does contribute, but things that I believe contribute extraordinarily. So if you were to look at my vote history this mod might think that I’m “mass vote manipulating”. That’s kind of crazy to put yourself under such workload to look at all votes like that. If downvote manipulation is the worry, just disabled the downvote or move somewhere that has already disabled the downvotes.
I’m only going by the information that the OP posted. OP did say ‘…so I got out of there. The next day I see more of his junk and go to downvote but can’t because I’m banned.’ and then he goes on to admit ‘Sure it was a dick move to poke the bear about his lifestyle of only posting things that get downvoted’
So it seems like he posted to just get a reaction. And it looks like he dm’d the mod first, making fun of him and mod responded. But neither he or the OP have responded to any of the comments in the thread, so we have no idea of what’s really going on.
Most of my communities are here on dbzer0 and sh.itjustworks, so I have no desire to move. But I did hear that a new update was coming up to allow more tools for mods. Maybe what you are suggesting is in there?