Context: PugJesus often spams low quality posts across the dozen or so communities they mod, apparently downvoting low effort spam on my frontpage is trolling. The only other action in the modlog is a different ban for 74 years for “Mass downvoting innocuous content,” so it definitely seems they are just banning people that dislike their spam. Glad we’re not missing out on the reddit mod experience here.
Yep, it’s not about being offended by downvotes. It’s about stopping users from drowning all the content in a community because it didn’t spark joy for them.
If we couldn’t ban for that, it would give folks free license to brigade. The women and trans communities would be sunk. There would stupid pissing contests between the Fuck AI and Pro AI people, and I hate them both. It’s good they can just cut the fuse by banning each other so they can stay cozy in their homes. Everyone should get to be cozy and happy in their houses, where angry letters are to be expected, but hurling rocks at the windows is discouraged.