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Is it a PTB move to ban a user if their only activity in a community is downvoting posts? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is it a PTB move ([email protected]) to ban a user if their only activity in a community is downvoting posts?

The behaviour baffles me a bit. If they dislike the majority of the posts in a community, why are they subscribed? Or if they are browsing by /all, why have they not blocked the community? Are they under the mistaken impression that Lemmy has an algorithm which uses downvotes as an indicator for "show me less of this"?

Has anyone else encountered a "serial downvoter" in any of their communities?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My one school of thought is that popular posts at the top of the frontpage deserve to be downvoted in order to refresh the content.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why not just sort by Hot, New, or Scaled instead? The popular posts in Active sort will naturally go away as discussion in them dies down (comments boost posts too).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't actually do it and sort by top hour or six hour or hot. But it could be a reason to downvote if the same post is up for days and downvoting hides posts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's possible to hide posts without downvoting as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

If a post has been up for days, it is probably in the high hundreds upvotes. It would need a huge amount of downvotes to bring it away.

Also, downvoting high quality posts make the "Top of the Week/Month/Year/All time" less relevant