I downvoted maybe 3 posts for being “unwise”, but I guess that’s not allowed. Looked up the mod and they banned a wave of people, all for “…”. Good stuff.

This “banned for using the functions of the website” shit is really getting out of hand. Unless it’s unequivocal support for every post, you’re out. It’s ridiculous out here.

Also! We still can’t block communities we’ve been banned from? Wtf?

  • jetAEnglish
    616·
    15 days ago

    Ooo! Someone is triggered. The sockpuppets are coming out to vote on this comment…

    https://lemvotes.org/user/giacomo@lemmy.dbzer0.com

    I don’t have a dog in this fight, the data is the data, the data says what it says. I didn’t provide any spin. If you don’t like the data, be different.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lol
      101·
      15 days ago

      Is it really that easy to pretend all downvotes are from puppet accounts in order to protect your own beliefs?

      • jetAEnglish
        38·
        15 days ago

        Not pretending, that is why I provided the data. Some of them.

        And what is my belief? I didn’t say anything in the comment, just linked to OPs actions. I’m not defending some philosophical position. OP wants us to evaluate their behavior, and this data is necessary to do so.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      61·
      15 days ago

      It’s almost like some people have a vested interest in wanting to downvote “anonymously” while preventing others from being able to do anything about the result? :-P

      • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
        91·
        15 days ago

        Yeah, look at this. This is from r/television, sorted by new.

        https://i.imgur.com/3pWsxw1.png

        Look at the scores of EVERYTHING. Most stuff on there that doesn’t soar (because its a notable news piece) gets heavily downvoted right out of the gate. I’m not saying all of those threads are great and deserve ++ upvotes, but you just never see this sort of thing at scale on Lemmy - and this is due to public voting practices.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          15 days ago

          I see it, but yeah I also see what you mean: the scale of it happening here is lesser.

          Keep in mind though that the default of collapsing or even hiding controversial content is something like 10 downvotes per every upvote for the former and far more for the latter (2x? 5x? I don’t want to create a new account just to find the current set of defaults but those are what I recall from many months ago when I created this one). Someone could in theory put ridiculous values in the boxes to hide every post with zero upvotes and one downvote, but that is extremely far from the intended use case scenario.

          But sure I’ll bite: so what if someone did that though - if that was their choice, then stupid as it might be, and regardless of how it may leave no content leftover after the downvote brigades got through with their efforts, but even so, if someone CHOSE that for themselves, then you have not explained why they should be prevented from screwing themselves over in that manner?

          • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
            6·
            15 days ago

            But sure I’ll bite: so what if someone did that though - if that was their choice, then stupid as it might be, and regardless of how it may leave no content leftover after the downvote brigades got through with their efforts, but even so, if someone CHOSE that for themselves, then you have not explained why they should be prevented from screwing themselves over in that manner?

            Oh, no I haven’t said people should be prevented from downvoting. It’s simply that on Lemmy, because you can be held accountable (righly or wrongly) by community mods for how you downvote on their community, that it mitigates compulsive downvoting.