I don't really have a dog in this fight, I'm not a mod of anything, but I remember seeing a post about this sort of thing a couple weeks ago that has some pretty good discussion in there. I think it was less about how to do it and more why to do it, though you may still be interested in checking it out before you take any action.
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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My reasoning for doing so in the community I mention is just because it's a music community, and I really don't want new people to the community getting the impression that they and their music tastes aren't welcome, especially if the downvotes are coming from people blanket downvoting their All feed rather than from community members themselves.
This would likely just be with people I see who have a history of doing this according to modlogs, and not with regular users who happen to downvote a post.
Giving the thread a read, thanks!
I'm all for banning people like that, personally. Especially if they're not even bothering to contribute anything themselves.
Someone that goes through a community that shares random music, dutifully downvoting everything they personally don't like is probably a self centred asshole. And someone that wouldn't be pleasant to have around commenting anyway.
I don't think this feature exists yet but it is on the backlog.
For now, tag them in an innocent comment to bait them into replying, then use that comment to ban them ๐คฃ
Wait you can check who downvotes and upvotes stuff?? I remember db0 said smth similar long ago but he's the admin.
Moderators can, as long as the instance is running 0.19.4+ (I think)
If you're a moderator of a community on Lemmy, you can view the upvotes and downvotes on posts for what I assume to be moderation reasons.
I don't think it's always hidden data and more dependent on the fedi software you use, since I do remember people a while ago getting upset with Kbin and their public upvotes and downvotes.
Some front-ends like Tesseract (tess.lemmy.ca for you) allow you to ban a user from a community without them having written a post or comment.
It can be done, but only via the api
You might need to contact your admin for aid in this task.