Not my account, but want to advocate for it. Because of, personally, I find it hilarious.

So, it seems like a mod with username MysticMushroom1776 @lemmy.dbzer0.com has some interesting policies about interacting with their content.

I agree that this user called PyroRondo has no content for 5 months straight. This is unusual but totally isn’t against any rules of Lemmy.

As I suspect, they reacted to a few posts of MysticMushroom1776 @lemmy.dbzer0.com during random session of content scrolling. No brigading or any other types of harassment. I even suspect that these reactions were in communities connected to mod’s AI art, not political ones.

And this for some reason triggered a ban in all comunities. Not in 1 or 2. Moreover, it seems like this mod uses specialized tools, that allow to track downvotes on their content made by other users with ability to get their usernames. I may be wrong, but I don’t think that such tools are basic for moderators on Lemmy.

Edit: typo.

  • JubilantJaguar
    114·
    2 months ago

    It was never intended to be a “fast way to share [an] opinion”. That is post-hoc justification. Who cares what your (or my) opinion is? The downvote button is, de-facto, a way to say “shut up”. Personally I find that toxic.

    If you will remove downvote button, people will just send similar comments.

    This is the pragmatic argument and it’s slightly more convincing. Although oddly, I personally don’t feel this need to throw my toys out of the cot when someone says something I disagree with. But apparently there are lots of babies on social media.