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?

    • Zaleramancer@beehaw.org
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      20 days ago

      Beehaw actually does remove down voting, so that you are forced to actually find things you agree with and upvote them to curate.

      • TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        20 days ago

        lets just do forums where everything is sorted by recency of comments and instead of bitching about voting people bitch about 25 year old threads getting necroed

      • kaidezee@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        20 days ago

        It could be organized by community and I don’t believe curation is necessary.

        Edit: Posts. Posts could be organized by community.

          • kaidezee@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            20 days ago

            What do you mean by “how”? Maybe by time posted or by last reply in that community, that sounds like an okay choice.

            • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
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              20 days ago

              That would mean there’s zero quality control and larger communities new posts would flood out older posts. No-one supports this idea.

              • kaidezee@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                20 days ago

                Yeah, you’re right about the larger ones. But smaller ones don’t really need quality control, in my opinion. So perhaps they would add a toggle?

            • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
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              20 days ago

              BUMP

              SAGE

              THIS

              NECRO

              It’s a shit choice, many of us have grown up experiencing it via forums and boards. The community curated stuff is so much better than the ‘last rando to spam something’ system.