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Admins should only be looking at who downvotes posts when there is some sort of history of vote-abuse happening. Somebody voicing their opinion with their votes is a perfectly valid use of the upvote/downvote system.
PTB
Well, thats like your opinion ^/s^
Got the same message LOL, I was also one of the down voters.
Had no idea mods can see voting stats.
This mod is weird and creepy for the message alone, stalking down voters WTF? Obviously thin skinned and on a power trip.
The freedom of anyone being able to start their own instance, then get a load of the ones that own their own servers… Some will be assholes on a power trip. It’s bound to happen.
Anyone can see votes. They are public. You’ve been upvoted by [email protected] and [email protected]
anyone can.
Neat! I always knew something like this was possible to build, never actually went looking for one.
Prying into who has downvoted you is just not a healthy habit to get into. If you run your own instance, it’s important to just never use that ability.
IMO, this is the kind of DM that is best ignored. I think most of us don’t want these communities to work like that; don’t give it any oxygen.
Prying into who downvoted what is literally built into piefed.
From what I’ve seen Piefed seems to be just Lemmy but packed full of every pro-censorship tool you could ever imagine to aid in creating a “safe space” echo chamber for pussies.
Now that’s a take
Unfortunately this one is hard to ignore, it’s the sole mod of a large com.
Totally agree.
That’s just like lookng for reasons to get angry.
For some people, finding reasons to be angry is a way of life.
Are you even a “progressive” if you’re not constantly actively looking for things to be offended/outraged about so you can try and censor someone who has a different opinion?
You can escape the software architecture. You can’t escape the people.
People like this existed before reddit, back then you just say fuck that guy and go to a different forum.
But it was a friendly warning.
Nothing can replace somethingawful tho, or gaiaonline or gamefaqs
Isn’t the software architecture supposed to promote certain ways to interact? The medium is the message kind of thing?
Taking action against someone or even just DMing them because of downvotes is some weak shit.
Unpopular opinion: y’all call everything you don’t like “reddit” (while the average Lemmy user is a lot of what people who don’t use either dislike about reddit)
Turns out this opinion is hardly unpopular.
This insanely nonsensical behavior is prevalent in tons of communities, and it should be shunned and avoided. These moderators are not worth a fraction of your time.
Moderator elections!
No joke, Periodic changing of mods might be a better long term strategy. Or like you said a small election from time to time.
Any position of power should be chosen by the people of that community, not picked by the others already in power
Don’t disagree fully, but time/energy is definitely a factor in this. I’m really not going to care enough to make an educated vote in all the communities that I’m in, I have better things to do. And likewise for a lot of people probably. Having 3 people vote in a mod doesn’t exactly give confidence either, it makes it easy to game the system. For smaller communities it’s probably better to retain the “benevolent dictator” system and punish any unruly mods with abandoning their community for a new one.
Yes yes. Another solution would be “no ban can be done by a single person/mod but the entire mod team, looking at the evidence aso”
Or good old lottery instead of voting. Lottery getting random users to be mod for a curtain time
Elections are so hard, nobody gets them implemented right
Or even better - just let us moderate what we see ourselves. There’s no need for some wannabe dictators to get to decide what we can read or say. I don’t need or want an echo chamber of the mods preferred:allowed opinions and ideologies. As long as it doesn’t break the law just leave it and whoever said it alone, and let everyone else decide how they want to handle it.
Yeah. The big advantage of the fediverse is that “if you don’t like it, leave” is practical advise instead of a way for the powerful to shut down arguments.
In theory sure, but not in reality. Most communities are already consolidated on here, so shitty mods have control just like they do on reddit. “Just make a new sub if you don’t like the mods” didn’t work in Reddit and it doesn’t work on the fediverse for the exact same reasons.
What we need is for mods to basically have no power over users or what they say. No bans, no deleting comments, no removing posts - just let people ignore/block who they want, and give them robust filtering options. It would be infinitely better for everyone who isn’t a big girls blouse who craves censorship of differing opinions.
Can bro chill for a minute
Because he considers the word pro an issue. Did this idiot ever consider that in some communities ‘bro’ is even considered a sign of respect?
Not that I would respect some snowflake that obviously is wrongly placed in an admin position.
Oh no, he’s going to call the brolice on you!
Downvotes? That’s a banerino okalay dokalay.
[Flanders intensifies]
post the guys name so i can proactively block him
Bro, I can’t believe someone could be that offended over the word bro. Like, really bro?
Apparently they’re on the spectrum and they have A LOT of downvotes on almost every post and comment. Not sure if that’s because of this post or just cuz.
Bro, what?!
