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 @[email protected] 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.
Whoa, I thought only the conservative mods were pulling this
You think only conservatives mods would want to create safe positive environments for their users?
I don’t think that’s at all what conservatives want to do.
No, they want to control the narrative. This person set their comm to mod-post-only. It's their private blog. They're not making a safe place for others, they're making a safe place for themself.
Well that's equally as fine as well.
No is fucking not. You don't make a functional community by banning everything you personally disagree with... That's LITERALLY just a dumbass echo chamber.
If it’s literally a place only for them, they clearly are not building a community.
And if they were building a community, removing haters goes a long way to making it tolerable.
You seem to conveniently be forgetting the part where they ban on personal preference. It's in the context of this entire discussion.
Interesting how you defend the echo chamber, though...
It was clearly based on voting, not personal preference.
And why wouldn't I defend not having to deal with arseholes coming by and shitting on everything? I deal with it so often that I have zero patience for it.
You know you can just set a community to private, right?
Not yet, you can set it to public or local right now. Private for subscribers only is on the road map
It'd be fine if they weren't spewing their content across the fediverse. It should be fair game to discuss it no matter what opinion, short of hateful, it is.
I don’t think that’s what these mods were doing either.