Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All (potentially accidentally while scrolling).

Important notes:

  1. I don’t use scripts.
  2. I don’t mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don’t like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on.
  3. Some of the communities I was banned from don’t have any posts in them so I wouldn’t have been able to downvote anything.
  4. Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It’s quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette.
  5. One of my bans reads “Appeal Granted, not a brigading member” but I’m still banned.
  6. I don’t troll.

WTF is going on here?

EDIT - Updated Info from the conversation below: In the initial image, you can see two “ban waves.”

The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community. It was @Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477

I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.

The other bans from two months ago are from four total downvotes over a 10-month timeframe in one Community.

I have also stated in this thread that I don’t have issues with AI-gen images, but there are shoddy ones and well-done ones.

EDIT 2: Now unbanned from the ten Communities listed as “3 months ago” in my initial image, but have been banned from three more because of this thread with the reason given being “self-proclaimed anti-AI brigader” which are two things I didn’t claim to be. God dammit Lemmy…

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      216·
      15 days ago

      there’s a lot of conservative / AI bro crossover.

      ooh downvotes :D think they’re the conservatives upset about being categorized with the ai bros, or ai bros being cranky about being lumped in with the conservatives?

      I find it hilarious that they’re ideologically identical but despise each other

        • subversive_dev@lemmy.mlEnglish
          17·
          17 days ago

          Wow, I had no idea there was any presence for them on this side of the defederation wall. Thanks for sharing

          EDIT: this dude’s ideology is all over the place, it’s like deciphering an alien civilization

          What kind of person bans links to Fox News and then posts links to Breitbart - all while advocating empathy in the sidebar?

            • subversive_dev@lemmy.mlEnglish
              4·
              17 days ago

              The mystery is why the more more “mainstream” news source (Fox) is banned but the fringe/conspiratorial Breitbart is not only not banned but makes up a good third of the posts that he does.

              Mind you, a whole other third is from the New York Post which is also a Murdoch property?

              I invite you to propose the ideological framework that explains all of that - the closest I can come up with is libertarian

    • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
      97·
      17 days ago

      You think only conservatives mods would want to create safe positive environments for their users?

      I don’t think that’s at all what conservatives want to do.

      • QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip
        153·
        17 days ago

        No, they want to control the narrative. This person set their comm to mod-post-only. It’s their private blog. They’re not making a safe place for others, they’re making a safe place for themself.

          • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
            115·
            17 days ago

            No is fucking not. You don’t make a functional community by banning everything you personally disagree with… That’s LITERALLY just a dumbass echo chamber.

            • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
              65·
              17 days ago

              If it’s literally a place only for them, they clearly are not building a community.

              And if they were building a community, removing haters goes a long way to making it tolerable.

              • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
                54·
                17 days ago

                You seem to conveniently be forgetting the part where they ban on personal preference. It’s in the context of this entire discussion.

                Interesting how you defend the echo chamber, though…

                • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
                  75·
                  17 days ago

                  It was clearly based on voting, not personal preference.

                  And why wouldn’t I defend not having to deal with arseholes coming by and shitting on everything? I deal with it so often that I have zero patience for it.

              • Pilferjinx@lemmy.world
                22·
                16 days ago

                It’d be fine if they weren’t spewing their content across the fediverse. It should be fair game to discuss it no matter what opinion, short of hateful, it is.