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Banned for Voting Incorrectly? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[-] [email protected] -1 points 20 hours ago

Right, did you miss the part where the AIs are usually trained using stolen data and also consume huge amounts of energy? Why are you defending AI rn? 🥱

[-] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Did I miss the part where you made a terrible argument and are now pivoting to something else?

Nope sure didn't.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

My original argument was still pretty sound, actually! Thanks for trying tho!

[-] [email protected] -1 points 13 hours ago

Lol adorable.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

You sure are. 🥰 Why don't you give a real argument about how you think it's okay for, under the oppressive system of capitalism, capital owners to expand their tools with which they exploit the working class? Go on bud, go for it!

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I know you are but what am I?

I always love watching you guys crash out like this 🙂

It would have been fun to watch you melt down about the printing press or the camera.

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