I have a community, and because it’s generally not really one where controversy comes up, as a mod and creator of the community I do like to check where downvotes on posts are coming from.
I came across this one user where, according to modlogs, they seem to have had a general habit of basically downvoting everything in sight on their feed and unfortunately an otherwise perfectly upvoted post got caught up in the crossfire.
While I don’t think banning them from the community will remove that downvote, I also don’t want someone like this to be able to interact with the community at all, since it manipulates good-faith post voting, and I’d like to prevent unfair downvotes like this one from appearing in the future.
Issue is with the person is that’s all they’ve done. Vote on the post. No comments in the community or anything, so I can’t find any dialogue option to just ban them outright. How would I give this guy the boot?
Some front-ends like Tesseract (tess.lemmy.ca for you) allow you to ban a user from a community without them having written a post or comment.
I don’t really have a dog in this fight, I’m not a mod of anything, but I remember seeing a post about this sort of thing a couple weeks ago that has some pretty good discussion in there. I think it was less about how to do it and more why to do it, though you may still be interested in checking it out before you take any action.
My reasoning for doing so in the community I mention is just because it’s a music community, and I really don’t want new people to the community getting the impression that they and their music tastes aren’t welcome, especially if the downvotes are coming from people blanket downvoting their All feed rather than from community members themselves.
This would likely just be with people I see who have a history of doing this according to modlogs, and not with regular users who happen to downvote a post.
Giving the thread a read, thanks!
I’m all for banning people like that, personally. Especially if they’re not even bothering to contribute anything themselves.
Someone that goes through a community that shares random music, dutifully downvoting everything they personally don’t like is probably a self centred asshole. And someone that wouldn’t be pleasant to have around commenting anyway.
Wait you can check who downvotes and upvotes stuff?? I remember db0 said smth similar long ago but he’s the admin.
If you’re a moderator of a community on Lemmy, you can view the upvotes and downvotes on posts for what I assume to be moderation reasons.
I don’t think it’s always hidden data and more dependent on the fedi software you use, since I do remember people a while ago getting upset with Kbin and their public upvotes and downvotes.
I don’t think this feature exists yet but it is on the backlog.
For now, tag them in an innocent comment to bait them into replying, then use that comment to ban them 🤣
It can be done, but only via the api
