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Questions About Banning (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Icytrees@lemmy.today to c/moderators@lemmy.world

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Hi!

I'm a new mod. I have two fresh coms on two instances, things have been pretty smooth.

I thought about banning when I noticed about half of my posts were being downvoted by the same user with no upvotes or engagement. I'm waiting to see if it continues, so I'm not banning them yet.

Next, I was clicking around in the Connect app trying to figure it out when it froze and I somehow banned myself from my own community. The admin here at Lemmy.Today helped me out pretty quick.

So my questions are:

Is it possible to ban someone without a post or comment, and how?

Do you think chronic downvoting is a good reason to ban someone?

How do you unban a user? Follow up, is this a good reason to make an alternate mod account just in case?

What are some of your reasons for banning people, and why?

I found a lot of great information on moderating in general, but almost nothing on how to do things. Are there any resources I might have missed?

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[–] Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Do you think chronic downvoting is a good reason to ban someone?

No, absolutely not. If downvoting bothers you, you should move to an instance that does not show downvoting.

Moderators that go down the path of trying to discourage/restrict downvoting simply show they are thin-skinned.

Since you believe the downvoting to be chronic, it may be worth your time to ask the person why they are downvoting so much, especially without engagement.

[–] Icytrees@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Downvoting doesn't bother me. Feels like you took a hard left with this whole "If you're thin-skinned, then leave" thing.

I like to see downvotes, they show me if people hate something versus not being interested. If someone is downvoting everything, the community isn't for them. Opinions and disagreement are good, trolling is not.

I'm definitely not going out of my way to conduct unpaid market research about it.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 3 points 1 day ago

it may be worth your time to ask the person why they are downvoting so much, especially without engagement.

Some really just do this to provoke people that care about downvotes. I've seen a few last week.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There's a difference between organic down votes and someone that search up a community to down vote posts from a day or two ago, just going down the new list and clicking buttons. It's abusing the down vote mechanic at that point and has little to do with thickness of skin.

Malicious targeted down voting is in the end toxic and immature behavior that should be curtailed. It's a form of brigading.

It's hard to see this solved by contacting the troll imo, nor should bad behavior be handled with kid gloves either.