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?

  • Itty53
    3•1 year ago

    Imagine having the time to actually look at all that nonsense just to find out who clicked an arrow icon halfway around the world.

    I don’t think people really understand just how privileged it is to be here dawdling at all, given time, technology, access, etc … nevermind dawdling maliciously over something so petty.

    Then again you could easily make bots to check all that shit, do the cross referencing, and pump out a black list of folks you don’t want to interact with. I can see there’s a lot of use in that for moderation and administration, but as a user? Begging for problems. It won’t ever create positivity to have people able to see that. I understand the protocol won’t hide it, but apps can.

    Edit, Wait, I’m not even sure the protocol allows for downvotes anyway, that’s specific to the apps isn’t it? So there’s a conscious decision going on to show them? That’s a miss.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      Seriously I like platforms like this, and sometimes argue, or discuss, or whatever.

      But if someone dislikes what I say and downvotes all my posts, so what? Who cares?

      If someone says I would have less credibility due to having less upvotes in total, I again would say who cares?

      To care is addiction.