I downvoted maybe half a dozen posts. They were all right-wing bullshit and I realized that’s all the user has ever posted so I got out of there. The next day I see more of his junk and go to downvote but can’t because I’m banned.
Sure it was a dick move to poke the bear about his lifestyle of only posting things that get downvoted, but he. Went. OFF!
Accusing me of alts, thinking I’m obsessed with him, message after message… I probably have more in my inbox right now but stitching this image together took long enough.
I want to say CLM… If a community really doesn’t want downvotes, why not setup the community on an instance that doesn’t do downvoting?
If downvoting is “manipulation” just because you don’t like it… why allow downvotes at all? Lemmy supports disabling downvotes. It’s a checkbox for the admin. It’s easy.
Because people don’t like instances where they can’t vote but the admin wants their space to be popular while maintaining ideological control.