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

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?

EDIT - Updated Info from the conversation below: In the initial image, you can see two “ban waves.”

The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community. It was @[email protected] See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477

I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.

The other bans from two months ago are from four total downvotes over a 10-month timeframe in one Community.

I have also stated in this thread that I don’t have issues with AI-gen images, but there are shoddy ones and well-done ones.

EDIT 2: Now unbanned from the ten Communities listed as “3 months ago” in my initial image, but have been banned from three more because of this thread with the reason given being “self-proclaimed anti-AI brigader” which are two things I didn’t claim to be. God dammit Lemmy…

  • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    295·
    3 days ago

    Stop doing your stupid policy because it is stupid.

    Doing widespread bans and accusing people of ‘Vote Manipulation’ just because they down voted without joining or making a comment is making a mockery of the moderation process. Like maybe a few of the people you banned were doing that, but the vast majority were probably just served up the same post in All around the same time and decided it was slop and down voted it.

    I mean how many people do you really think are actually manipulating votes and don’t just happen to share the same opinion that a post was crappy.

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
        182·
        3 days ago

        If they weren’t putting accusations of vote manipulation and other ridiculous claims in the modlog it wouldn’t be nearly as annoying.

        It also adds some annoying steps to the end user who would want to block those communities since banning means you can’t just click on the post and block the community in the default browser interface. Once banned it is necessary to go to setting and block the community manually.

        Since they made a bunch of tiny, barely used communities it also means that they trickle into the feed and you have to block each one individually. They are spamming AI communities and then being dicks about it.

        Then there is at least one that expands this to other communities they mod that don’t have anything to do with AI. I like the Dem TankieJerk, but got banned for not liking AI. Not harassing, just down voting one or two AI slop posts in some other community and not feeling bad about it.

        • Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
          55·
          3 days ago

          At the end of the day it’s up to community mods how they want to moderate their communities. If they don’t want someone with a moderation history like yours in their communities then I can totally understand that. It’s not like db0 is the only instance where you’ve been banned for systematic down voting, now is it matey?

          • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
            64·
            2 days ago

            Acting like my moderation history is accurate when shitty mods treat a few downvotes as manipulation is the biggest part of the problem. You are taking their word for it that their moderation is accurate when it is not. The list is long because one mod did like a dozen of them at the same time.

            That is the perfect example of why this is a problem!

            The other one is jet at hackernews who has a bot that bans people for a single downvote and he has bragged about it right here in YPTB! Some of those bans are cross instance because they mod communities on multiple instances and banned all of them. It is the action of three or four ridiculously over the top mods.

            It’s like talking to a wall.

            • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
              53·
              2 days ago

              Yes, and since then you have demonstrated over and over again it was a really good idea to remove you from the communities you disagree with.

              1. If votes don’t matter, then it doesn’t matter that you can’t vote in communities you don’t like.
              2. If votes do matter, your negative signal has been received and reciprocated.

              Take your pick 1 or 2.

              As a human when I validate a ban suggestion I don’t want to have to repeat it on each of my communities. People who get removed from a community can go wild and start downvoting other communities I moderate even if they are unrelated. This is what you have done, in fact, whenever you get reminded of me you open my post/comment history and downvote everything until you get tired. Twice now you have done it.

              Haven’t i saved you from wasting your time? Forcing you to block the communities saves you from seeing things you don’t like.