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The mod banning these users is the same mod who made the posts they downvoted. This is mod abuse, turning the downvote button into an auto-self-ban button.
The message is "If you disagree with me, you will be banned"
Monitoring and banning users for using lemmy as intended to signal boost your opinion should be grounds to have all mod privileges removed. This behaviour undermines the integrity of the server and the wider fediverse.
Downvoting a toxic community is also a valid use of your downvote. Reddit has several examples (gamersriseup, the_donald, fatpeoplehate, among many more examples).
Think of it like concerned citizens yelling at the westboro baptist church for being hateful pieces of shit.
An analogy can really color an argument eh? I don't usually engage in that kind of rhetoric, I find it undermines the conversation by overtly engaging with peoples emotions.
The community barely exists and certainly isn't toxic. Mass downvoting is a great way to undermine the conversation though
Which community?
The one pictured in the screenshots, !boringcompany@sh.itjust.works
In that case, this isn't about mass downvoting, this is about users being banned by the moderator for downvoting one (1) post, one (1) time. The 'mass downvoting' (read, multiple users downvoting each post they don't like one time each, as intended, and being banned for it) is my other post.