Never got banned from a subreddit for simply downvoting - can’t say the same about communities…
ETA - This is no defense of Reddit; this may have changed over there but I don’t think votes were visible to mods back when I used reddit and it’s definitely something I don’t love about Lemmy…
I disagree. I think upvotes/downvotes being public contribute overall to a high-trust culture. Mods absolutely can be stupid about it and ban people for single downvotes, but some people really do mass downvote entire communities and/or spin up alternative accounts purely to downvote.
Did you downvote a single thread and got banned, or did you downvote multiple threads over several months and then got banned? I absolutely understand the former, but I can never understand the latter. Why subject yourself to months or years of scrolling through posts you don’t like when you can just block the community?
Then that’s 100% the fault of those mods that banned you. I get wanting to ban people that mass downvote for no reason, but banning for a single downvote is just power tripping behaviour.
One of them was a mod gone rogue which I hadn’t realized at the time. The ban eventually got overturned and the mod was booted.
One of them was a new probable troll com with a sole troll mod. It was a new community so I was still willing to give it a chance. So that one…yeah, you’re probably right, I probably should have just blocked the com, but I was still giving it a chance.
I’m loose with downvotes but avoid blocking coms if I can.
Here and there I see people complaining about the things you detail in the comments, and sometimes out of curiosity I check that person’s attitude, and every single time it’s been pretty miserable.
Lo and behold, your current attitude sits at 46%, meaning (as I understand it) that you’re downvoting more often than you’re upvoting. My question is: what are you even doing here if you’re so obviously unsatisfied by so much content on the Fediverse? And is it maybe time that you found a social media site that better fits your likes…?
Lo and behold, your current attitude sits at 46%, meaning (as I understand it) that you’re downvoting more often than you’re upvoting
That seems like an oddly precise number.
I definitely upvote more than I downvote. It shouldn’t be surprising that in a conversation about getting banned for downvoting that the discussion would focus more on the downvotes.
Over there on Lemmy.World, what happens when you hover your mouse over another user’s name? Does a popup card of info appear after a second or two?
In any case, that’s what appears using PieFed software, which is where the 46% number is listed. And yeah-- for sure it’s a precise number, exactly calculated from your upvote / downvote ratio.
I can also see such info (and more) if I go ahead and click on another user’s ID, but the popup box is certainly handy for not needing to do that.
Never got banned from a subreddit for simply downvoting - can’t say the same about communities…
ETA - This is no defense of Reddit; this may have changed over there but I don’t think votes were visible to mods back when I used reddit and it’s definitely something I don’t love about Lemmy…
I disagree. I think upvotes/downvotes being public contribute overall to a high-trust culture. Mods absolutely can be stupid about it and ban people for single downvotes, but some people really do mass downvote entire communities and/or spin up alternative accounts purely to downvote.
Did you downvote a single thread and got banned, or did you downvote multiple threads over several months and then got banned? I absolutely understand the former, but I can never understand the latter. Why subject yourself to months or years of scrolling through posts you don’t like when you can just block the community?
It’s happed a couple times. In neither case did I downvote all posts (or even most posts) because not all posts to the community were downvote-worthy.
Then that’s 100% the fault of those mods that banned you. I get wanting to ban people that mass downvote for no reason, but banning for a single downvote is just power tripping behaviour.
One of them was a mod gone rogue which I hadn’t realized at the time. The ban eventually got overturned and the mod was booted.
One of them was a new probable troll com with a sole troll mod. It was a new community so I was still willing to give it a chance. So that one…yeah, you’re probably right, I probably should have just blocked the com, but I was still giving it a chance.
I’m loose with downvotes but avoid blocking coms if I can.
Here and there I see people complaining about the things you detail in the comments, and sometimes out of curiosity I check that person’s attitude, and every single time it’s been pretty miserable.
Lo and behold, your current attitude sits at 46%, meaning (as I understand it) that you’re downvoting more often than you’re upvoting. My question is: what are you even doing here if you’re so obviously unsatisfied by so much content on the Fediverse? And is it maybe time that you found a social media site that better fits your likes…?
That seems like an oddly precise number.
I definitely upvote more than I downvote. It shouldn’t be surprising that in a conversation about getting banned for downvoting that the discussion would focus more on the downvotes.
Over there on Lemmy.World, what happens when you hover your mouse over another user’s name? Does a popup card of info appear after a second or two?
In any case, that’s what appears using PieFed software, which is where the 46% number is listed. And yeah-- for sure it’s a precise number, exactly calculated from your upvote / downvote ratio.
I can also see such info (and more) if I go ahead and click on another user’s ID, but the popup box is certainly handy for not needing to do that.
Interesting - I pretty much exclusively browse Lemmy on mobile with a third party app. That number is surprising though…🤔