Moderation tools for dealing with users that always vote down posts in a community?
4 months ago by okwithmydecay to c/lemmy_support
Does Lemmy have any moderation tools for dealing with users that always vote down posts because they disagree with a community?
For want of a hypothetical example, say someone created a community dedicated to pineapple on pizza. What's to stop people who strongly disagree with pineapple on pizza to subscribing, and voting down every post?
No they can't, only admins or mods.
We block that spying tool, so it doesn't work on lemmy.ml . See here.
Once a moderator has viewed the votes, and identified a downvote spammer, what happens next? Is it possible to ban a user from a community just for downvote spamming?
Yes, you can give a reason when you ban a user yes.
Though how do you ban a user who's only downvoted in a community? From what I can tell, the ban option only appears on posts and comments.
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Yes we do. Community mods and instance admins can view votes on any comment or post to try to cut down on this. Downvote spammers are currently one of the biggest problems on the fediverse.
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