Well, this is one where the subject is kinda beat to death.

Blanket down voting is a shitty thing, and it is completely appropriate for mods to ban people that do it

However, they should have a definitive criteria for what thresholds they use to determine what is and isn’t blanket down voting.

Myself, I down vote stuff on there that’s either off topic for the place, or stuff that’s utter bullshit, and/or stuff that’s YouTube drek because the YouTube drek is never sourced well. A link to a video is way too likely to be bullshit when it comes down to fad, niche, or weird diets.

Which means I end up down voting more than I do otherwise.

And, there’s very rarely any posts worth engaging in.

By the apparent metrics, I should have already been banned. Which means that the apparent metrics don’t match what’s being used in practice.

However! I think that’s less PTB and more “clueless” mods that don’t have experience running a controversial community. The more controversial the subject is, the clearer you have to be with how, when, and why you’re going to take action, unless you want to end up on a community like this one, lol.