I logged into Kbin today to see 18 notifications where the same guy banned me from all of their magazines for downvoting them.
I was only subscribed to 1 of those magazines, but it’s still annoying to wake up to 18 ban messages from someone who got easily angered from a downvote.
(Side note: IMO, this is why being able to see downvotes is bad. Even if anyone could see them by spinning up their own instance, that’s a lot of work compared to pressing 2 buttons.)
I’ve blocked the guy, but is there anything that can be done to stop this from proliferating across the site?
That was me banning him, a gut reaction on my part when I noticed. Maybe childish, but when they revealed himself as a bad actor I didn’t want them coming into my communities.
You appreciate the irony here, right?
Oh yes, I know.
At the same time, I don’t trust that this guy isn’t going to go into the magazines I run and start spamming the comments section or anything like that.
In 2003? 2004? - somewhere around there - I was the only mod on a small internet forum. A guy got mad at something I did and decided to start putting gore in every single thread. He did it when I was asleep, and I came back on the next morning and had to clean up the mess.
Since then, I’ve been a bit less forgiving when someone has shown to be a bad actor. Maybe I’m just colored by past experiences, but I didn’t want to deal with any BS, and on the bigger of the magazines I run we have a full modteam that can overturn the ban if they disagree. (The smaller doesn’t even have any organic activity yet, so I haven’t recruited a modteam for it.)