This guy is clearly snooping the downvoters as an instance admin and retaliating against them. Wouldn’t even have noticed if I didn’t stumble onto the modlog in Voyager by accident.
I might be of course wrong in my assumption. But I don’t remember ever interacting with anyone from that instance, I’m not subscribed to those communities and the dates correlate.
Same. I wrote a comment “my bro unironically replied to ‘they’re ethically cleansing the muslims’ with ‘oh no, anyways’” on a discussion abou uyghurs on lemmy.ml and got banned from all lemmy.ml imstances
Signal, privacy, fairphone, fdroid etc etc
Since a lot of these communities don’t have another fediverse alternative I’m actually thinking of moving back to reddit.
This kind of power-tripping and censorship imo is nothing more than a sabotage of the fediverse itself. If even I, who uses Linux and GrapheneOS, has to return to reddit over it, there’s no chance for it to survive
Major tech communities honestly need to move off ML.
privacy
fdroid
Linux
Reddit might still be a better information source, let’s be honest, but people are aware of .ml mods power tripping and try to get the alternative communities rolling
See, this one is an edge case.
While the instance’s policies are absurd, and I have no idea why they think it’s sustainable; but the policies are clearly listed and described, so I can’t say it’s power tripping to enforce those policies.
It’s one of those things like beehaw being extra insular. It’s on the dumb side to use a federated base like lemmy if you want to exclude the possibility of outsiders doing things you don’t like when your instance’s posts federate. Like, don’t federate at all, or use different base, something.
But is it power tripping? To me, power tripping is about overreach. Like being an admin and interfering in C/'s workings without warning per communication. Or for mods, making decisions that aren’t covered by existing rules for the C.
So, in this case, it’s less power tripping and more just a shitty instance doing shitty things, if you see the distinction I’m making.
Are you saying their policies prohibit anybody from downvoting the admin’s opinions? If so, I don’t see how that’s not power tripping no matter how you frame it
Huh? I’m not sure what you mean.
The policies specify that they intend to be proactive about down vote “brigading”.
They aren’t saying you can’t down vote reasonably, just that they apply a threshold beyond which, you get banned preemptively.
It isn’t like “power tripping” has a precise definition that’s universal, so it comes down to individual usages of the term. For me, it’s like I already explained. That’s my criteria, what’s yours?
The admin was downvoted 3 times, across one discussion. In a community not on their server, and not their post. Calling that ‘brigading’ is ridiculous. From other comments in this post, it’s happened to others too. Somebody mentioned getting banned for 5 downvotes spread across several weeks. It sounds like any criticism of the admin would merit a ban. Regardless of where your individual borders lie for defining power tripping, I don’t see how this would fail to qualify.
I mean, great, you can rant about it if you want. Feel free, it doesn’t hurt anything.
I already gave my criteria in the first comment. Feel free to use your own in making a top level comment too. Heck, make a post about, it if you like.
But, I gotta say, that if you’re just looking to argue about it, you’re wasting your time. I gave my opinion, stated the grounds for that opinion, and see no reason to change it to satisfy some internet rando that can’t be bothered to answer a direct and clear question.
Apparently this loser got me too lol!
I wasn’t even subscribed to most of those and pretty sure never even visited any of them
Don’t come to fediverse if you don’t wanna talk to anyone
Isn’t dubvee a personal instance? The admin is probably using bans as blocks
Hm, apparently it has 43 users. Still
43 users is still a friends and family instance, maybe colleagues too. Look at his registration application criteria:
In the field below, say you’re from WV without saying you’re from WV.
While it might seem broad enough to include anyone who isn’t his friends or family it is vague enough that the intention is clear that he only wants friends, family, or colleagues to signup there.
Dubyakay isn’t in your example conversation. They seem unrelated
That’s me.
https://dubvee.org/modlog?other_person_id=908319
Extremism - Implicit variety. Pattern of downvoting content that denounces targeted violence / vigilante justice, upvoting content in support of.
https://dubvee.org/site/dubvee.org
As an instance, we’re pretty heavily moderated in order to maintain a welcoming atmosphere that fosters civil discussion. We don’t “tone police” everything, but we do expect users, local and remote, to behave themselves and act in a rational, civilized manner. Those who cannot, local or federated, are quickly shown the door.
Absolutely No Extremism
Implicit Extremism:
- Patterns of upvoting or boosting posts/comments that explicitly praise, endorse, or advocate for violence (or any of the ‘explicit’ items above)
- Patterns of downvoting posts/comments that denounce violence or those that advocate for lawful/peaceful solutions.
Thank you for looking this up - that is very helpful.
There’s a huge difference between someone “doing precisely what they said they would do in advance” vs. a “Power-Tripping Bastard”, imho.
You were downvoting everything they posted, sounds like you wouldn’t have enjoyed participating on dubvee anyway
