I downvoted maybe 3 posts for being “unwise”, but I guess that’s not allowed. Looked up the mod and they banned a wave of people, all for “…”. Good stuff.
This “banned for using the functions of the website” shit is really getting out of hand. Unless it’s unequivocal support for every post, you’re out. It’s ridiculous out here.
Also! We still can’t block communities we’ve been banned from? Wtf?
The OP made a post about their own voting behavior being a issue a moderator banned them for. Looking at their voting record is part of evaluating the the amount of Power Tripping Bastard the moderator is. OP is inviting us to examine their situation to render a judgement.
Their extreme preference for downvoting is a factor here, it is illustrated by their voting record.
I wouldn’t call someone who upvotes more than they downvote “extreme preference for downvoting”. That would be a “slight preference for upvotes”.
If you look at their post voting they downvote 240% more then they upvote.
Compared to your good self who downvotes 11% as much as they upvote.
Not sure why we are looking only at post voting when that is in all cases a sliver of users’ total votes. In this users case, if you include both posts and comments, they upvotes more than they downvote on both accounts.
Also not sure why my personal upvotes/downvote are being evaluated just because I made a single comment on this thread.
it was illustrative to compare OP against a normal user.
And since you are the person I’m talking with, what example would be more relevant?
That’s fair. Did this link show he’s aggressively down voting stuff from that community though? I’ll be honest, I didn’t look at it very hard. I don’t know that website and its hard to tease that info out at a glance.
Not really sure why his old account is relevant either… was he down voting things in this community on this account as well?
Basically, has he really down voted enough to cop a ban? Like, am I wrong, the wise community is a meme community right (I genuinely do not know). Did he go through and down vote a few things or everything?
Since ban evasion is quite easy for now with the federated nature, someone just coming back with a different account is very annoying and in itself a reason to ban the new account.
I had to deal with a serious ban evader in one community that i moderate. Once people show that they don’t respect the decision and are not seeking to resolve any disputes about it through communication, there isn’t really any coming back imo. Then it amounts to a game of “whack-a-mole”.
True… but is this applicable in this instance? Isn’t lemm.ee a closed instance? He didn’t make a new account for ban evasion, he can’t use his old account. He even named his new account the same thing.
If there’s an example here of whatever bad behavior happening on the old account as well, I would agree with you. However, unless someone actually wants to find the number downvotes for Ech on wiseposting it’s not really applicable imo. It seems like there is a real problem in the fediverse (mass downvoting) but no one is really providing proof that Ech has done this, only that he tends to downvote a lot. Might not be targeted, might be he’s just stingy with his upvotes which throws his ratio off.
I don’t know anything about wise. I’m not making a judgement if this ban was justified or not. I’m providing the context someone can use to help make their own decisions.
I can see why a moderator might exclude someone with this past behavior from their community and not give them the benefit of the doubt.
Yea idk at a quick glance its kind of a AITA-style community with less drama involved and probably more humor.
If he was banned for downvoting literally everything the mod was justified.
If he got banned because he is a negative Nancy like you describe, bit of power trip. If he downvoted only a couple things, also a power trip. The single mod may be trying to manipulate scores for his community to get seen. That’s all just my opinion.