UPDATE: The Unbans are showing up on modlog now.:
unban log screenshot
~~I have traded the month-long ban in the many communities for a 6-day ban in [email protected], which is a more reasonable ban~~. this ban has also been lifted now. I appreciate the cooperation from the mod over this misunderstanding.
So it seems i've gotten a month-long ban in..... over 30 communities across lemmy.dbzer0.com, sopuli.xyz, lemmy.ca, programming.dev, and several others, for this comment here.
Screen cap of comment for posterity:
It's directly replying to a comment saying they can't imagine why anyone thought otherwise about fish feeling pain, which is reasonable. You might notice the quotation marks, because it's satirizing people's mental gymnastics about fishes' pain perception. It was meant in jest, exclusively.
It seems likely that a single mod took this joke wrong and chose to ban me on every community they have control over.
No, that is just regular upvoting and downvoting.
A prestige based system takes into account previous voting based on community outcomes, and aggregates over time a running value that represents how effective that particular user has been to matching the zeitgeist of the community. So the more someones posting and voting pattern appeals to the community that they occur in, the more 'valuable' that person's vote is
So a person that has been consistently uploading content that other viewers consider quality gets more community prominence and their votes are weighted more than a person who just showed up yesterday or someone who consistently posts divisive and unwanted content as decided by the community
Does this mean that some communities will get taken over by bad actors? Yes, but then you just leave the community, or start an initiative to change the zeitgeist of the community. The thing is, NOW those bad actors don't get a free pass just because one of their friends worms their way into modding BECAUSE there are NO mods.
Lastly voting just up and down is so 2010, as much as I fucking hate Buzzfeed their tagging system is the start of something good, but they don't do much useful with that info but aim for virality.
So a multi dimensional voting space based off of tag clouds where the user can refine the kind of content they view based off of others reactions such as 'funny, informative, shocking, wholesome' and even negative tags like 'outrageous, unhelpful, argumentative' just to name a few.
TL;DR: The longer and more often any given user's contributions are considered positive by a community, the more power that user has to shape the future of the community.