Mods are bored, looking for extra work.
But mass downvoting is a threat actor behavior tbh
I do wonder if they do the same to people who mass up vote… Hmmm
YDI, if you believe a community or instance doesn’t have a legitimate right to exist because it’s dangerous you need to report the dangerous content instead of simply downvoting them to suppress them. Also mass downvoting whole communities or users does count as an act of vote manipulation or abuse.
So to recap, you’ve not avoided reporting content you believe to be dangerous, but also have engaged in abusive voting behaviors. Voting patterns that many instances (not just communities) would indeed ban someone for.
Draconic kind of hit the nail on the head with this one. Going into a community you don’t like and mass downvoting everything isn’t super awesome, and there’s no rule against the moderator of that community banning you for it.
This is one of those situations where the best thing for you to do is disengage
Thank you for clarifying!
YDI. report dangerous content (which i agree this is) to admins for moderation or defederation.
but blanket downvote trolling is a real issue that any community mods should be allowed to address.
I mean I get it’s annoying. I also think “carnivore diet” is just a dumb grift like “raw milk” or whatever. But I don’t think you have a right to complain here. Someone created a community for people following this diet, it’s obvious they will ban anyone like you who is vocally opposed to the diet.
Raw milk is worse because of the bird flu risk. Some dumbass is gonna drink tainted milk, get sick, and the virus will eventually evolve to better infect humans in ways that hurt us.
A carnivore diet just harms themselves and the animals they’re eating. But raw milk has the potential to cause/accelerate another pandemic.
I’ve been a lifelong vegetarian however the vegans do have a point… what other mammal goes out of their way to drink other mammals milk?! I mean there’s some fringe cases of different species adopting each other and weaning but usually humans are involved in that.
I did not comment on their community, I just downvoted.
This almost makes it worse tbh. You’re not even trying to interact or provide anything of value to the community, you’re just going in to downvote.
There is no rule saying you can’t downvote the posts and downvoting isn’t “uncivil”
Being a cunt is though
If you act like a dick regarding others’ beliefs, they will shun you. It’s been like that since the dawn of time
Would you walk into someone’s barbecue and start your preaching like that, then act all confused when someone fuckin decks you with an entire, raw pig?
Would you walk into someone’s barbecue and start your preaching like that, then act all confused when someone fuckin decks you with an entire, raw pig?
That’s more or less what people did on vegan communities. When they got banned, there was a whole drama: https://feddit.uk/post/17377857
Two wrongs never made a right
Indeed, just evidencing the double standard
What would be your take on someone that went to vegan communities for the sole purpose to just downvote all the comments?
Would that be bannable?
Happened a while ago, people went mad: https://feddit.uk/post/17377857
Sure, but is that behavior you approve of?
I don’t know. For me the biggest takeaway about the vegan drama was the change in LW Terms of Service, which mean that carnivore could also not be hosted on LW, as it could be dangerous for people the same way the vegan diet it.
I feel like LW wanted to support Rooki in the decision, so they had to come up with this new rule, but they should probably have considered just removing Rooki as an admin, even temporarily, and let the rules as they are.
I just had a look at [email protected] now, it the first pinned post is about research papers showing that vegan diet is healthy for humans to comply with the rules.
I saw your post about asking to mod [email protected], are you going to lock it down and redirect to [email protected] ?
Hrmm, I’ll make a post in fedigrow to talk about my ideas on moderation, Short version here - Only negative participation is bad for lemmy.
WRT [email protected], I don’t have a plan, I saw it was unmoderated, and people had been talking about ketones 4 months ago and had a really bad experience from lemmy users when they just wanted help with their medical condition - so at the very least it needs a active moderator. I might make sense for one to be casual talk, and the other to be science/papers/etc. not sure, depends if I get granted moderator access and how it fits with their diet policy.
I’ll make a post in fedigrow to talk about my ideas on moderation
Sure, looking forward to it!
I might make sense for one to be casual talk, and the other to be science/papers/etc. not sure, depends if I get granted moderator access and how it fits with their diet policy.
Makes sense!
