I wrote the script. You opened a post in a community and downvoted every comment. That's what the message is telling you
That means you really don't like the community, fair enough.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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I'm gonna jump in here, since there's some info that might be handy.
See, me and jet have had some disagreements regarding the carnivore diet. I even gave them a bit of hell when the carnivore community was new, objecting strongly to certain posts and their content combined with no sourcing or user friendly way to access sources from lemmy.
I'm pretty sure at one point, I got annoying. I know I was rather, ummmm, direct in my phrasing.
But the real story is that I down voted posts, and comments under posts, when they were misleading or contradicted established best practices to a degree I felt warranted a down vote to reduce visibility/support. I did that part with only minimum contributions otherwise, because I didn't really want to piss on anyone's picnic with the frequency I was seeing that kind of thing. Like, I objected to some of the data and conclusions, but the people didn't really need someone critiquing their dietary choices, you dig? All the folks commenting were just minding their own business and not trying to evangelise, so trying to interfere in their choices would be a dick move.
And I never got banned. Ngl, if I had been running the community and seen the pattern of voting with as little contribution as I was engaging in, I might have banned me.
But, neither actively as a mod, nor via bot, did that happen.
I know that's just one anecdote, and anecdotes have little value. But it's why I would have totally called this a YDI if OP hadn't been batshit and ended up banned here as well.
As far as I'm concerned, jet is a fair and even handed moderator. Might want to tweak the bot a little eventually, but for a niche C/, it seems to do the job it's intended to do.
I've seen your interactions in that community as skeptical but polite. You never attacked a user, or insulted anyone. You contributed occasionally.
Would I have preferred your downvotes also have a question/comment with your concerns? Sure
My guiding metric is to make a safe space where others feel comfortable participating in - and your interactions were inline with that.
At least I managed to present myself in the way intended successfully, skeptical but polite/interested.
I did eventually feel weird voting at all without saying something, so I very rarely do any more. It's still a very interesting subject, I just don't have anything useful to say that I haven't already said in one way or another. Pretty much the same as on vegan, vegetarian, or keto communities tbh. I see them all as valid choices for individuals. So as long as there's nothing that's outright false, the most I can do is chime in with existing best practices, and it isn't like people looking for a specialized diet haven't seen that information.
I'm happy for you to ask questions, even questions people would already have seen elsewhere. The conversation is good for everyone.
Plus a question about carnivore, being a subset of keto, gets to birds with one stone!
I really like to dig into the science, what is well researched, what can be demonstrated. Heck, I even spent a bunch of time figuring out why the Rice/Potato/McDougall diet works (its inhibition of the Randell cycle (not a cycle)).
I don't want to give OP the benefit of the doubt here due to their behaviour in this thread, but I'll ask more for my own curiosity:
Is there a possibility of false positives if you happened to downvote everything from a certain community while browsing c/all, or is there a temporal element as well that'd make that sort of false positive very unlikely?
I'm not a great programmer,
This ban message only happens when someone downvotes a post then opens the post and downvotes all the comments.
Is there a bug? Sure, lots! I haven't double checked the logs against this user yet. After work
Notice the one thing this user didnt ask for - to get unbanned so they could contribute to any of those communities
downvote everything from a certain community while browsing c/all
If somebody consistently does that, they are not having a great Lemmy experience and they should block the community
Does it do any good for all the atheists to down vote every catholic post? Nobody is benefiting from that behavior
Notice the one thing this user didnt ask for - to get unbanned so they could contribute to any of those communities
Has anyone done so since you started doing this? Given the general circumstances here I don't expect many would try (esp. w/silent instance ban), nor do I expect a happy mutual outcome.
No one.
This ban message only happens when someone downvotes a post then opens the post and downvotes all the comments.
Does it have a comment threshold? I.e. it feels it would be fairly easy to trigger if there's just 1 comment in the thread.
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Couldn't happen to you on Hexbear.
that is the silver lining of hexbear, and the reason I still appreciate the instance, even if the userbase are a bunch of edgelords (not all, but most). Also very funny you came here to make a meta joke about something not related to this thread, I appreciate the effort<3 love you buddy, I hope you are having a great day :D
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These posts are very difficulty to evaluate, because it could be that the mods are paranoid, and reading the votes wrong, or the bans are legit and you're just lying about it. 🤷
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YDI, what did you expect from going there and downvoting all or even most of the contend there? You are aware that mass-downvoting is considered an act of aggression against communities, as it's literally an attempt to downrank their content in the feeds. Many instance admins also don't take kindly to this either, which is probably why they instance banned you from there. This instance that YPTB is hosted on is literally voting for a rule change banning brigading, and many more in the future will likely follow.
If you dislike all of a community's content, you should use the function to block communities. If you believe it is against the rules you should report it by reaching out to admins. Spamming downvotes won't help in either case, it won't make you stop seeing it, and it won't address problematic or rule-breaking content. It just makes you seem like a bot or a troll.
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no idea who these guys are, but I've not been systematically downvoting anyone.
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ironic :D
all seem to be dubvee.org, is this a potential federation issue?
edit 2: also trans rights, BLM, free Palestine, Ukraine is a sovereign nation, bigotry is wrong. just to be clear, I see a lot of people complaining about being banned and their shitty rhetoric reveals them. I try to be an ally, these bans are not warranted, likely a butthurt right winger.
A bot was likely involved somewhere in the process (and with tons of potential for false positives), possibly even if it picked up something outside of dubvee. Though that is not the automated message (and I suspect they'd stand behind it even if it were a low amount of votes).
Not sure if it's what you meant, but some of the bans like this stop all of activity from being visible to dubvee users.
Gonna be honest, whether it's a bot or not, the idea of banning people for voting on posts or comments in some way you don't like is deeply funny to me.
"YOU'RE INFLUENCING THE MADE-UP INTERNET POINTS THAT DON'T MATTER! EEEEEEK!"
even I'm not so terminally online.
One in that list has 5 or so members and attracts about -20 votes on every post and comment. It's unpleasant to visit a community where every post and comment is at -15, even if they're "imaginary points" it makes the community hard to sort
Since Jet started enforcing the "no mass down voting" rule automatically things sit at 0 to +5.
Exactly. It's not about fake internet points it's about making a safe space where the lurkers feel comfortable to contribute and participate without getting dogpiled.
It's very much like growing a garden, it has to be tended to, weeded, and protected from local varmints for the young plants to flourish
The script doesn't run on my personal community [email protected] because im the only poster and I know internet points aren't real. I don't need to encourage others to participate.
I mean if all someone does is go to communities to downvote every single post, it is clear that they are having an agenda, rather than interacting with the content in a fair way.
As there is an algorithm pushing things to "hot" or "active" in the local and all feeds based on votes, it does have an influence on the visibility of posts.
STOP USING THE BUTTONS WE GAVE YOU
The points are made up and thankfully we don't have similar karma system as reddit, but your overall received upvote/downvote score ratio between a certain timespan is being evaluated by automod bots, because lemmy is still developing better moderation tools.
Info about the one bot I know: https://slrpnk.net/post/11069853
Edit: added word.
Reddit system is pretty oppressive right now, hate to see when lemmy reaches that point
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I am also banned from a ton of dubvee communities for some reason.
I checked my script, that wasn't me. You are not banned on my non-dubvee communities. ([email protected], [email protected])
That was a instance ban https://lemmy.dubvee.org/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=171320
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