Asking a question in good faith is not sealioning. You really really need to learn how to use that word correctly.

They have been censured on fediseer, I think unfairly - each censure is a supposition about what they might do, not what they have done on hilariouschaos

Lots of Lemmites are obsessed with censoring people for what they “might do.” It’s getting freakin’ crazy lately. lol

This is glorious lol

Nah, the types of people who do that don’t have the balls to comment. For them, the dopamine rush comes from pushing a button and moving on. They love that it doesn’t take any time for them to try to affect the conversation.

See, they don’t wanna be hard, the just don’t want YOU to be heard if they disagree with you.

I prefer negative comments to serial downvoters. Serial downvoters are cowards.

Nah, the people who live to follow people around and downvote are in too deep. Easy to ban them now, so easy peasy to deal with them. That’s what makes them so mad! lol

PTB. It’s .ml after all!

How so? Are you defending serial downvoters?

Nothing would deteriorate a discussion faster than people just calling other people morons and adding nothing more.

Pretty much all of Lemmy lately.

I love the look of the robot in this. Except for the fence parts, this is a great fucking pic!

I know. I’ve been the target of your serial downvoting before. But at the time I didn’t know how to ban for it. lol

I managed to discover the serial downvoters on my old lemm.ee community and when I banned them (about 5 of them?) it had a huge impact.

I noticed same thing. I’m actually shocked that so many on Lemmy are still surprised at how many serial downvoters we have.

Great fucking reply and well-thought out!

And more and more I think it’s better to completely get rid of the downvote button.

Yep! I wish all Lemmy instances would get rid of the downvote button. So many drive-by serial downvoters would have to find a different hobby.

Those mods should just migrate their communities to an instance without downvoted if they’re so sensitive about them

But if the downvoter isn’t on the same instance, then the downvotes still count and everyone else can see them.

Let’s say I’m on an instance that doesn’t allow downvoting. I have a community dedicated to pretty hairless cats. If you’re on a different instance, one that allows downvotes, you can still downvote all my posts.

I’ll never see your downvotes, but everyone else who isn’t on my same non-downvoting instance will, and that might hurt interaction in the community because people may see all the downvotes and decide not to visit.

Plus, the reality is that I’m an egotistical prick who sometimes likes to see exactly how much and how many people hate me. Hint: It’s a lot :)

Regarding downvotes, can someone explain to me why it’s bad or wrong? I’ve posted my drawings before and they were downvoted.

Now imagine you had your own community centered around your art. And instead of someone just not liking your work, there’s this one person who goes out of their way to downvote everything you post, no matter what it is. He doesn’t block your community. He actually waits around just to downvote your stuff.

Now let’s say you have another community. Not art-related at all. It’s about pears. That’s right, just pears. Poems about pears, pictures of pears, pear facts. Suddenly, every single post gets downvoted.

And guess what? It’s the same guy.

Sounds weird, right? Like what kind of person follows you around the platform just to downvote everything?

Let’s take it a step further. You look up the guy’s profile and realize he’s never posted anything. No comments. Nothing. Out of curiosity, you check his voting history and it turns out all he does on Lemmy is downvote every new post he sees.

Creepy, right? But also way more common than you’d think. That’s why you keep seeing this topic pop up.

Everything I described has happened to me. Sometimes all of it, sometimes just parts. But I’ve definitely run into people on Lemmy who downvote just because they think it’s funny. For me, some people just downvote my shit because of my name and the fact they don’t like me. And they have been very open about it.

One guy even said about me, “I can’t help it. I see Universal Monk’s name. I downvote.”

Lemmy seems to attract folks who are a little more extreme in their obsessive behavior than other platforms. Sure, a few users have been wrongly banned here and there for downvoting. But the number of serial downvoters here is ridiculous, especially the extreme political types or the hardcore anti-AI crowd.

I had someone downvote some stories I posted the other day. In a pattern that seemed to imply he didn’t actually read them. But he let me know that it’s because he didn’t like the cover art or the story subject (Trump, hamsters, vampire nuns with strap-ons, and nutraloaf).

That kind of downvoting is fine and what the button is for. But it’s not like he went in and downvoted everything.

And since he didn’t like my writing style, he blocked the community so he doesn’t have to see my posts there (I post a lot). That’s how Lemmy should work.

And of course I didn’t ban him; he didn’t do anything wrong.

Are you implying that I’m a fascist because I think doxxing social security numbers is bad for a Lemmy instance? That’s a strange take.

Also, it looks like most people are downvoting OP’s post and agreeing that he deserved it. Are they fascist too?!

The truly extreme action of releasing publicly available information

So if it’s so publicly available, then no reason to post it on Lemmy. Also, someone mentioned the post had Social Security numbers. I don’t care what Lemmy says or how much Lemmy hates people, I’ll always think posting people’s info like that is uncool.

Doxxing is never cool, friend. And can get dbzer0 into some uncomfortable legal noise.

When you gonna post your manifesto, friend?

Bruh, what the fuck? YDI

I’ve definitely been scanning the news lately, and totally expecting to see something like, “And he released his manifesto to a little-known social forum called Lemmy…” about one of you guys.

If I were a new up and coming law enforcment agent, I’d totally be checking out Lemmy. lol

If you wanna go extreme and shit, cool, but do it somewhere else, please. Lemmy ain’t a safe place for you to be doxxing people. If dbzer0 gets shut down because of people like you doing shit like this, imma be pissed.

What the fuck were you thinking and what was your end goal here?

Thanks for this. It’s a great read. I love how his name is Wagenius! Same as me, but I’m not related. Not that I know of anyway. I just sent my mom a text asking her if we are related to this dude! lmao

PTB