Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All.

Important notes:

  1. I don’t use scripts.
  2. I don’t mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don’t like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on.
  3. Some of the communities I was banned from don’t have any posts in them so I wouldn’t have been able to downvote anything.
  4. Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It’s quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette.
  5. One of my bans reads “Appeal Granted, not a brigading member” but I’m still banned.
  6. I don’t troll.

WTF is going on here?

  • Cocopanda@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    My first lemmy account was banned from the fed. Because I spoke ill of Israel. I figured this place isn’t much better than Reddit.

  • remon@ani.social
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    3 days ago

    Haha, just noticed I got banned from 2 communities, presumably for commenting in here (they are both dead communities I’ve never been to). Someone is a very petty and now blocked mod.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
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    3 days ago

    I also got banned from some communities for “systematic downvoting”. I’d estimate I’ve downvoted maybe 5 or so posts by a moderator promoting a harmful diet, which was apparently enough for being “systematic”. The mod also banned me from other random communities I had never interacted with in the first place. But oh well, nothing of value was lost for me. Just kinda sucks that mods can use this to make it seem like their statements are less controversial than they are.

  • Korne127@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Honestly. Doing this when someone makes dozens of downvotes is ridiculous and stupid. Doing this with a single downvote is… I can’t even begin to fathom how unimaginably stupid and ridiculous that is.

  • ipitco@lemmybefree.net
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    3 days ago

    the whole “if you don’t like the content, don’t downvote, but just ignore / block it” is really cringe

  • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 days ago

    That mods/admins can even see who is downvoting is, by far, my least favorite thing about Lemmy.

  • TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    i have no idea what’s happening and im not sure why im even subbed to this one

    i dont care about votes or bans.

    no idea what ai has to do with any of this either.

    but hey while we’re on the subject, i dont like how ai is being used in our culture in general and its pretty cringe to defend that.

    i like gardening. i did yoga in my garden today. i made friends with a bird.

    hope you all have a nice day, it’s just internet memes guys

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    My first interaction with davel@lemmy.ml was him threatening to ban me over downvoting his comments.

    One of the first things which made me look into what this power tripping bastard is and yeah, a Russian pretending to be an American who’s since been avoiding any communities they’re not a mod on.

    Dude says things like “reality has a well known Russian propaganda bias” while pretending to be American while supporting Putin.

    Lemmy is infested with Russians

    • Kay Ohtie@pawb.social
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      3 days ago

      Can this admin see these votes without diving through the database because he’s an insecure douchebag? Like Mastodon only shows some things even to admins without being gross and unethical by digging into the database directly.

        • Kay Ohtie@pawb.social
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          3 days ago

          That feels gross, like if I could see poll voters on Mastodon.

          Makes it feel like Lemmy was written by some insecure folks.

          • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            3 days ago

            I think what seals it for me is that mods and admins can see how you vote, but the mod log just says “mod”.

          • ipitco@lemmybefree.net
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            3 days ago

            It’s not lemmy, it’s just how the fediverse works to prevent double voting

            Mastodon also being on ActivityPub, that’s really likely the same thing, except maybe not implemented in the UI, but that could be accessed by the API or in the DB

            • Kay Ohtie@pawb.social
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              3 days ago

              I’m well aware, I run an instance and know it’s in the DB. But on my instance I’d have to trawl the database for it instead of getting a nice UI look. That’s what I meant.

            • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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              3 days ago

              Mastodon shows you the votes just by clicking and seeing who liked the thing. No admin access necessary.

              This is one among a few different reasons why hoping for votes to be private on Lemmy is a lost cause.

                • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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                  3 days ago

                  What? Sure it does. Upvote a comment from Lemmy, then go to Mastodon and look at the same comment, and you’ll see a “like” from the Lemmy user that upvoted it. Right?

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        No idea.

        Pretty sure Davel is just a mod, so that’d be a “no”, but again, “no idea” is my more reliable answer.

        I did downvote several of his comments, but not like “spam downvoted”, but from honest disagreement. Not my fault everything he writes is bullshit. So after I downvoted a few comments while replying to him, he replied "oh see, here on ‘whatevercommunity’ we ban people who downvote others for no reason’, as if I had no reason.

        They’re just extremely silly and see through and you ought to question everyone on Lemmy about it. Because while opensource open platforms are great, they’re also super easy to infiltrate.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      Tbf, they’re pretty easy to spot and they’re much less over here than the bad place. They’re on a schedule too, so you can kind of be ready for them.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        Some are super easy to spot yeah, others less so. And seeing how they obviously wish to pretend they’re something they’re not, you can’t assume you can “always” identify them.

        That’s kinda like saying “I can always tell a trans person”, just because you don’t notice a person being trans when they are passing.

        Whenever I’m suspicious, I like to just ask people to confirm that Putler has an ICC warrant out for him for his war crimes. Their reaction to that is often very telling, but sometimes they’ll go with something like “well, Putin, like all world leaders are inherently blablablabla”, sort of faking out admitting to Putler’s bullshit while similarly not criticising him personally, but also pushing ideology that is not opposed to Russian goals (ie basic whataboutism)…

          • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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            4 days ago

            So, is this legit, or a very well done pisstake?

            There’s also a similar video of them covering “sixteen tons”, featuring a man with the deepest singing voice I’ve ever heard.

          • Dasus@lemmy.world
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            4 days ago

            To be fair, at least the guy actually performing is possibly ‘one of the good ones’, along with a bunch of other members of the orchestra, insofar that 1) they’re not fighting, they’re singing, and to do that you got to apply to the musical company in the military and 2) they’re singing western music, and they probably listen to quite a lot more than they’re singing.

            Idk they may have actually bought the propaganda, who knows, but like if you’re just wanting to do conscription as it’s kinda hard to avoid, going to the music companies would allow you to avoid actual fighting usually and western music historically was listened to by progressives in Russia.

            But like yeah, it is funny. Especially those old guys in the back.

              • Dasus@lemmy.world
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                4 days ago

                Man’s looking tired, bruv.

                Those sacks under his eyes looking like a hog’s scrotum.

                • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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                  4 days ago

                  I have a backstory for him that I’ve made up. He went along with all this because his grandson is the lead singer. He’s proud but unhappy because he doesn’t understand why they like this song. He also has no idea of what anyone is saying in the song, but his grandson seems happy enough.

    • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Lol same. It was my first and last interaction and the most pathetically sad threat that’s ever been directed at me.