Context: I started [email protected] to be an English-language comm for Norway. There’s an existing Norway comm which focuses on Norwegian-language content and discourages too much English in the comm. I posted a simple “Hey I’m starting this comm” post, because obviously relevant. The mod took down my post without any comment, reply, or reason. Now they lurk in my English version comm, and downvote like half the posts. They’ve never actually upvoted a thing.
Oh, they also reported one of my posts as ‘Not relevant to community’.
Talk about petty. They didn’t even start the comm themselves, they took it over a few months ago because it was abandoned, and have done pretty much nothing to drive activity in it since taking it over. I decided to post here instead of YPTB because I don’t feel like it crosses the line into mod abuse, it’s just annoyingly petty.
Tell your server admin.
That a a job for them usually.
Like I said… I don’t feel any of this crosses any lines into rulebreaking. I just wanted to vent some annoyance :)
At programming.dev “vote manipulation” is against out Code of Conduct and we would send the user a warning to stop. I’m sure your instance has something similar written down.
Does this count as vote manipulation? It’s not multiple accounts at work.
Depends on your instance’s definition. We define it as:
We once banned a few accounts for mass down voting, i.e. their (total downvotes - total upvotes) were over 6 000. One account had downvoted more than 10 000 times in a single community.
I don’t get why anyone views being a moderator like ownership. It seems to attract a lot of narcissism in that mindset. I don’t think mod posts are relevant to growing a community. Quite the opposite, I think forced posts are worse than none. It is a matter of how the community resonates with users and the total number of people on the platform. The more niche the group, the harder it is to find an audience. The community belongs to users that post. The only community truly owned by a mod is the one where they are the only one that posts. Mods serve the community not the other way around.
I fully agree. The comms I’m modding, I’m doing so because I want them to exist and they wouldn’t if I stepped away from them right now. The moment I think they can get by without me I’m finding some other sucker to take them over.
sounds like [email protected] would be a good place for you rn ;-)
Like I said… I don’t feel any of this crosses any lines into rulebreaking. I just wanted to vent some annoyance :)
Sounds like they might just be an asshole. Maybe remind them that all of their upvotes and downvotes are public.
Maybe remind them that all of their upvotes and downvotes are public.
It’s possible to see what others upvoted or downvoted?
It’s all public data. Lemmy clients don’t let you see it, though, but there might be some exceptions. Other platforms like kbin/mbin just let you view the votes for any post or comment.
I believe the newer versions of mbin only show who upvoted, they’ve taken to hiding downvote info. Still lots of other ways to view that data though.
A step in the wrong direction, in my opinion. It’s public, so to hide it behind an api seems misleading.
If they are downvoting posts in your community, can you not ban them from the community?
Downvoting is harmless disagreement and I won’t interact with any place than bans them because it’s a sure sign of an authoritarian echo chamber.
It’s not harmless. They’re maliciously using downvotes and as a consequence lemmy’s algorithm will rank OPs content lower.
This isn’t a case of downvoting individual statements you disagree with, it’s harassment.
Downvoting is not harassment.
Don’t be so sensitive.
I… could…
I confess it obviously came to mind. I guess I haven’t done it yet because part of me feels like I’m stooping to their level and escalating the pettiness? Which is dumb, since I do ban others for the same reason. Bah, logic, who needs it.
comm
… unity.
It’s funny that you’re intentionally removing a crucial part of the word in a complaint about a lack of … that word.
If you don’t like something that someone is doing in your own community ban them and block them. Lemmy is far too small for a childish bullshit.
Yea I run my own instance, always fun to see the same people downvote your stuff. I personally think it’s bots in my case.
