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.

  • Lirton ( Lirton@lemmy.today ) Banned from communityOP
    4·
    7 months ago

    I see this thing for the first time. Interesting tool. But I think that this one is kinda wrong to exist? Aren’t votes and downvotes supposed to be a mostly private and detectable only for admins?

      • YarrMatey(she/her)  ( YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
        4·
        7 months ago

        I was briefly on kbin so I do remember the bickering over every comment, which I hated. I wanted to defederate lemvotes since that also brought more bickering to lemmy, plus I’m not a fan of the idea. As an admin, I can easily see who downvoted me, even find who consistently downvotes me, but it doesn’t really personally help me. There was so much drama with lemvotes and calling out people all the time, I think it is supposed to discourage downvoting by making people aware they are under survelliance. I poked through Mbin and could only see upvotes (boosts), not downvotes (reduces). I do wish for a way to disable downvotes on the individual community level in lemmy, the way Piefed does, then our community wouldn’t need lemvotes anymore (hopefully). The votes can be retrieved through the API, but the average user just browses without it.

        • Rivalarrival ( Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ) English
          11·
          7 months ago

          On reddit, the distinction between “admin” and “user” is whatever Reddit decides it to be.

          In the Fediverse, the distinction between “admin” and “user” is whatever the user decides it to be. You are completely free to build and admin your very own instance. So can I, and everyone here. You are free to use the admin-only information you glean from that instance under the user account you are using here.

    • Coastal_Explorer ( Coastal_Explorer@feddit.online ) English
      7·
      7 months ago

      If you want your votes to be (somewhat) private, probably the best thing to do is to create an alternative account and use that for voting without making any comments/posts.

      PieFed also gives you an option so that your votes are only shared within the same instance. So, tools like “lemvotes” wouldn’t be able to pick up on your voting history. In that case only the local instance Admins (and maybe moderators) would be able to see your voting history.

      From this user it is fairly obvious that it was created recently. They downvoted 49 times in the first few minutes of activity. They then upvoted once a few days later.

      https://lemvotes.org/user/PyroRondo@lemmy.world

      Based on the first day of activity, it almost does look like this was an account created just for downvoting.