YDI. report dangerous content (which i agree this is) to admins for moderation or defederation.
but blanket downvote trolling is a real issue that any community mods should be allowed to address.
Going into a club just to go around showing everyone a thumbs down is being an ass tbh. I can’t say whether there’s a rule against it, but it’s not behaviour that’s helpful for anyone.
For stuff that shows up in your All feed, you can downvote the post to keep it out of others’ feeds. If such posts appear too much you can block and move on. The mods have just done the latter for you.
Mods are bored, looking for extra work.
But mass downvoting is a threat actor behavior tbh
I do wonder if they do the same to people who mass up vote… Hmmm
YDI.
We (Lemmy users in general) have an idiotic tendency to take matters into our own hands, instead of letting the people in charge handle it, even when the later would be better for everyone. And that’s exactly what you did.
If you believe that a community promotes harmful content, report it to the instance admins. Make sure to back up your claim with studies and the likes. Don’t simply blanket downvote everything in it, otherwise you’re creating a precedent for other people to do the same with other communities.
YDI, if you believe a community or instance doesn’t have a legitimate right to exist because it’s dangerous you need to report the dangerous content instead of simply downvoting them to suppress them. Also mass downvoting whole communities or users does count as an act of vote manipulation or abuse.
So to recap, you’ve not avoided reporting content you believe to be dangerous, but also have engaged in abusive voting behaviors. Voting patterns that many instances (not just communities) would indeed ban someone for.
Sunaurus stepped down, the main admin is now @[email protected]
As stupid as this is, it’s not up to you what is a “dangerous diet” and going to an entire community you disagree with just to downvote everything is petty and childish. Just block it instead.
YDI
Doctors have recommended against it. God the anti-vaxxers are bridgading Lemmy now.
We need to challenge dangerous misinformation on the internet and not let it spread uncontested.
The also recommend against vegan diets. Does that mean we should go to vegan communities and harass them?
The difference is there are numerous studies that support the plant-based diet.
If you want to downvote a whole community fine. But it’s kind of absurd to then complain about getting banned lol.
God I’m can’t believe people are defending a carnivore community, despite the fact humans need to eat vegetables.
People were attacking the user beaver for banning downvoters on https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/22273342 yet here they’re defending jet 🤦♀️ when the carnivore diet will block your arteries.
You hear that @[email protected], you can’t complain if you get banned from a community for simply downvoting.
Believe it or not, I can both think the carnivore diet is dangerous and dumb (not to mention terrible for the environment) and also think your behaviour isn’t acceptable.
This picture is probably the bloody dumbest thing that I’ve seen this whole year. (I know, “whole year” = “less than a week”, but still.)
you seem super fun, like the kind of person who likes to laugh at jokes
I mean I get it’s annoying. I also think “carnivore diet” is just a dumb grift like “raw milk” or whatever. But I don’t think you have a right to complain here. Someone created a community for people following this diet, it’s obvious they will ban anyone like you who is vocally opposed to the diet.
I did not comment on their community, I just downvoted.
This almost makes it worse tbh. You’re not even trying to interact or provide anything of value to the community, you’re just going in to downvote.
There is no rule saying you can’t downvote the posts and downvoting isn’t “uncivil”
