UniversalMonk

Yeah, we need to make sure people like you and ideas like yours infest as few communities as possible.

That sounds like the very censorship you seem to be arguing against though.

I’m going to ignore you now.

Of course, you're free to ignore me. That is the right attitude! I would prefer people "ignore" and "block" rather than become serial downvoters.

Thanks, friend! :)

I think you’re making it out to be a bigger deal than it actually is.

Well, the developers did make it a feature to be able to ban based on voting.

We didn't always have that feature, it's relatively new. So I guess there were enough people asking for it that it became a thing. Also, you yourself mentioned that you were troubled at seeing the "normalization" of the practice, so obviously there are enough people seeing it as an issue that you have noticed it.

Also, you put too much value into the meaning of votes.

Again, I'd love if Lemmy got rid of the option to upvote/downvote. And just for background, I once had a guy who would take screen shots of how many dowvotes I had on my posts, then post that screenshot, and laugh about it and use that to argue to others that they should just bully me off of Lemmy. I won't say his name here, but he still mentions my name a lot. lol

Learn to deal with criticism.

There's criticism, and then there's the weird stalker types that seem to be on Lemmy that become serial downvoters. There are even some that create downvoting bots. Yeah, bots just to downvote. That has also been an issue that admin had to work on.

No voting at all, would solve it though!

We need to stop normalizing banning people for how they vote.

Here's the problem though. I’ve been a victim of downvote brigades. It usually starts with someone downvoting every single post in one of my communities. Fine, maybe they don’t like my politics. But then it spreads. They start hitting every community I run, even the non-political ones, and downvote everything I post. Eventually, they downvote every single post I make anywhere, just because it’s me.

Some people genuinely get joy out of doing that. They don’t read the post or care about the content. They just see a name they don’t like and hit downvote.

I’m not making this up. I saw it happen over and over. That’s why banning users based solely on voting behavior became a feature. It was needed.

So I started banning people who only showed up to downvote and never contributed. Once I did that, they stopped bothering those communities. They knew they couldn’t mess with me anymore.

Since then, serial downvoting has dropped across the Fediverse. People figured out they could get banned for it.

It wasn’t about disagreeing with information. It was about targeting people. I’m not saying OP did that, but that’s the pattern I’ve seen.

I personally would like to see votes be eliminated for the entire fediverse so the vote manipulators have no way to try to shape narratives.

You should have realised that you’ll likley disagree with almost anything posted there and should have just blocked it.

And I wish more Lemmy people understood this!

i look forward to the lemmy 1.0 feature “private communities” where only subscribers see posts.

Any idea when this feature comes out?

Well said!

Brah, it's bad form to just go into a community and start downvoting every single article you see. YDI.

I'm seeing more and more Lemmys doing that to try to control their narrative. Not cool.

You win the interwebs today!

YDI

Ahhh, ok, sorry for my overly long explanation then. I wasn't sure what you were implying. And yes, I agree, PJ likes to stir up drama.

Thank you, friend!

I'm not sure what you mean. I never posted stuff to .world to just stir up trouble. When I was still on .world, it was before the election. And Lemmy was a much different place right before the election; as in even more extreme and pro-censorship.

I was hated on .world c/politics (and most of Lemmy) because I advocated for third party, and was vocal that I was gonna vote third party. I was a proud supporter of the socialist party, and that's the way I voted.

My posts are still there, and can be seen by anyone. The reason I got banned is because I double-posted (accidentally) an article from newsweek that said that Trump was rising in the polls. The post that got me banned is still there. Anyone can see it.

Lemmy was pissed at anyone who posted anything about Trump rising in the polls. .worlders all said it wasn't true, Newsweek was russian propaganda (!), I was a russian accepting money to post, I'd disappear after the election, etc. Boom! Then ban hammer.

Well, turns out that Trump WAS rising in the polls. He DID win the election. And I DID vote socialist party. And I'm STILL on Lemmy.

So I was correct about every single thing I posted on .world. And I stand by all my posts, and I'm glad they are still there. And now Lemmy isn't as opposed to third parties, now that they see all the nonsense that happened with duopoly's.

Also, I STILL support socialist party, and still post socialist links. And .world (and most of Lemmy) still hates me. lmao

YDI.

Don't go into subs that you don't agree with, just to argue or try to prove someone wrong, and then get mad when you get kicked out for it.

Read the room, friend.