As far as I’m aware, mods can only access banning functionality on user comments.
If someone in a community keeps pestering mods with BS reports, but that user has not posted a comment in the community, is there a way to ban that person?
I can’t seem to find anything in the UI to handle this use case.
I know there is, because the mod of 30rock banned me for down voting a couple of their bad memes when they posted like 20 at once.
I have no idea how to do it tho.
If it’s just a couple accounts doing it, message that admin account they created I guess.
Maybe DM the 30rock mod? When I was trying to figure out what was going on, their modlog looks like they ban anyone that down votes without being subscribed. So apparently they’re the subject matter expert.
The new hobby of mods chasing people for not voting the way they like is nasty
That’s what you get when you allow moderators to see what people up/downvote. Unfortunately, this is simply human behavior - and you have to implement things with the expectation that they are going to be abused.
I don’t think it is malicious, it was sign of bot activity that some account only down voted or up voted lots of posts in a short time.
But yeh most of the post in this community are meh at best so it is understandable that someone do it legitimately.
No, I’m increasingly reading reports of actual people getting banned for downvoting a comment or a post, without even having said anything.
Like, you just casually browse, see something you feel is irrelevant or of bad quality, downvote it, and move on.
The mod notices the downvote, looks it up, and then just bans the user out of spite.
It might not be malicious. If a moderator is trying to cultivate a new community and wants certain type of content, one of the things they need to control is the rating of that content.
Imo that’s malicious.
They are using their position to influence the trajectory and visibility of posts. The motivation doesn’t matter
