I logged into Kbin today to see 18 notifications where the same guy banned me from all of their magazines for downvoting them.

I was only subscribed to 1 of those magazines, but it’s still annoying to wake up to 18 ban messages from someone who got easily angered from a downvote.

(Side note: IMO, this is why being able to see downvotes is bad. Even if anyone could see them by spinning up their own instance, that’s a lot of work compared to pressing 2 buttons.)

I’ve blocked the guy, but is there anything that can be done to stop this from proliferating across the site?

  • fiat_lux@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I actually disagree with this being an example of why seeing downvotes is bad. I also think it’s good we can see which mod is doing the banning; I’ve noticed the standard lemmy moderation log doesn’t show that. This kind of transparency allows for poor behaviour to be discovered more quickly and remedied with less speculation about who did what.

    Edit: For example, I can also see this person has gone through your entire comment history and downvoted every comment. I didn’t see any troll-like comments from you though. I hope this person is doing OK mentally, but this isn’t OK community leader behaviour on their part.

    Edit 2: I can also see that OP has downvoted every single one of the other person’s comments too. On the same day as the other person did to OP. Uh… I don’t know what conversation spawned this entire exchange, but I dont think that downvoting all someone’s comments outside of their contexts is productive.

    Edit 3: And for the couple of other accounts who are going through the post histories of the people involved and downvoting because of this thread? Also not helpful behaviour. Be better.

    This is why we can’t have nice things.

    • TheDeadGuy@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      This is exactly why transparency is great. These people are ridiculous and lose credibility. Keeping everything visible is the best defense against manipulation

    • Kara@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Agreed, if somebody is spam downvoting comments (Which is honestly quite the pathetic act), then people should be able to see that, and block/report them

      • stopthatgirl7@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Unfortunately, blocking doesn’t actually do anything aside from stopping up from seeing their comments. Someone I blocked is still able to see, reply to, and downvote my posts. It’s frustrating, to say the least.

        • EnglishMobster@kbin.socialOP
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          1 year ago

          Additionally - and I don’t know if this has been fixed - if you’re a mod and you block someone, you also don’t see posts they make on your magazines.

          So they can easily go in and make spam posts and you - as a mod - would never see it.