Moderator bans users from downvoting posts that promote a dangerous diet

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Yeah nah you're in the wrong here. Report to admins, block the community and move on.

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.

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Do I see you following people around replying to unrelated threads to continue an argument from elsewhere? Not cool

YDI.

blanket down voting every post and comment in a community

If true, this explains it all right there, regardless of the underlying issues (I mean regardless of ethics of right and wrong etc.). You could just leave the community if you don't like the content, perhaps making your own, or make a respectful post outlining your reasoning to try to convince people, etc. But acting like a toxic asshole doesn't seem like it's helpful to anyone?

Again, if true.

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

I blocked that sub as soon as I saw it in /everything.

It smelled like a troll meeting area (acrid sugared vinegar sweats from their 'sauces').

If one user down votes alot of post I don't think that should be immediately banworthy. If they say some mean comments then perhaps then it would be more widely accepted.

My main thing about banning on downvoting posts alone is, if more people up vote the post then it shouldn't be a problem anyways. They want to ban any unpositive scores? They should ban based on a voting score and mean comments combined I think banning based on a downvote alone is dangerous because there is a lack of context as to why the post was downvoted.

lolz

There is no rule saying you can’t downvote the posts and downvoting isn’t “uncivil”