Context: I started [email protected] to be an English-language comm for Norway. There’s an existing Norway comm which focuses on Norwegian-language content and discourages too much English in the comm. I posted a simple “Hey I’m starting this comm” post, because obviously relevant. The mod took down my post without any comment, reply, or reason. Now they lurk in my English version comm, and downvote like half the posts. They’ve never actually upvoted a thing.
Oh, they also reported one of my posts as ‘Not relevant to community’.
Talk about petty. They didn’t even start the comm themselves, they took it over a few months ago because it was abandoned, and have done pretty much nothing to drive activity in it since taking it over. I decided to post here instead of YPTB because I don’t feel like it crosses the line into mod abuse, it’s just annoyingly petty.
Yea I run my own instance, always fun to see the same people downvote your stuff. I personally think it’s bots in my case.
If you don’t like something that someone is doing in your own community ban them and block them. Lemmy is far too small for a childish bullshit.
Just give them a warning and then a ban.
comm
… unity.
It’s funny that you’re intentionally removing a crucial part of the word in a complaint about a lack of … that word.
This is obviously beside the point and not helpful to you, but why is the Norwegian-language one called Norway and not Norge?
No idea :)
Sounds like they might just be an asshole. Maybe remind them that all of their upvotes and downvotes are public.
Maybe remind them that all of their upvotes and downvotes are public.
It’s possible to see what others upvoted or downvoted?
you can use kbin.earth (and presumably mbin?) to see the upvotes, even if you don’t have an account there. e.g.:
https://kbin.earth/m/[email protected]/t/907175/Mod-of-a-similar-comm-deleted-my-advertising-post-now/favourites
(edit: you may need to copy-paste the link; the web interface has problems with it. downvotes are not publicly viewable there.)
It’s all public data. Lemmy clients don’t let you see it, though, but there might be some exceptions. Other platforms like kbin/mbin just let you view the votes for any post or comment.
I believe the newer versions of mbin only show who upvoted, they’ve taken to hiding downvote info. Still lots of other ways to view that data though.
A step in the wrong direction, in my opinion. It’s public, so to hide it behind an api seems misleading.
I agree with you there. Malicious or petty users are always willing to take the extra step to gain that information anyway.
sounds like [email protected] would be a good place for you rn ;-)
Like I said… I don’t feel any of this crosses any lines into rulebreaking. I just wanted to vent some annoyance :)
The mod took down my post without any comment, reply, or reason.
This is definitely enough reason to post in [email protected]
It also opens up an interesting debate about what is appropriate. While the mod action is understandable (they don’t want rival communities), it’s a bit of a misuse of mod tools to delete it in my opinion.
Then separately they’re harassing you by following you round downvoting everything you post. That’s the sign of somebody unhinged. They are able to compartmentalise actions that occur inside their community from the wider Lemmy.
If they are downvoting posts in your community, can you not ban them from the community?
I… could…
I confess it obviously came to mind. I guess I haven’t done it yet because part of me feels like I’m stooping to their level and escalating the pettiness? Which is dumb, since I do ban others for the same reason. Bah, logic, who needs it.
Just ban them for vote manipulation and be done. I don’t think it’s petty, Lemmy doesn’t give you many tools to solve this so just use the one you have.
Downvoting is harmless disagreement and I won’t interact with any place than bans them because it’s a sure sign of an authoritarian echo chamber.
It’s not harmless. They’re maliciously using downvotes and as a consequence lemmy’s algorithm will rank OPs content lower.
This isn’t a case of downvoting individual statements you disagree with, it’s harassment.
Downvoting is not harassment.
Don’t be so sensitive.
That’s a shame. Surely these people would have something better to do.
Tell your server admin.
That a a job for them usually.
Like I said… I don’t feel any of this crosses any lines into rulebreaking. I just wanted to vent some annoyance :)
At programming.dev “vote manipulation” is against out Code of Conduct and we would send the user a warning to stop. I’m sure your instance has something similar written down.
Does this count as vote manipulation? It’s not multiple accounts at work.
Depends on your instance’s definition. We define it as:
We once banned a few accounts for mass down voting, i.e. their (total downvotes - total upvotes) were over 6 000. One account had downvoted more than 10 000 times in a single community.
