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.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The new hobby of mods chasing people for not voting the way they like is nasty

[–] kitnaht 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

At this moment, only admins can, no? I'm a mod and unable to see votes

[+] [email protected] -7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Do you have such examples? Seems wild

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How do mods look it up when only admins can see votes?

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

Perhaps in the cases I saw described, it's an admin mod

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Gotcha

[–] kitnaht 2 points 2 months ago

I regularly implement "Never attribute to malice, what could easily explained by stupidity". It doesn't sound like it was an "ooops, I accidentally banned this person!" type of situation.

Givesome pointed out that it looks like their mod log is full of bans of people who aren't subscribed in the first place.

[–] Ghostalmedia 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Does lemmy show vote history?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Not directly but since it's federated information it would be trivial to extract or view such as running a 1 user instance and viewing the sql database, and theres likely tools now to automate that

[–] givesomefucks 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some people put in the legwork.

There is a very active account that mods a couple big communities. I saw them acting like a jackass and down voted like 4-5 of their comments in a chain, got a DM "informing" me that he could see votes...

They're not an admin, just a mod and on a normal instance.

I legitimately don't know why admins are cool with him, but they are. So I just blocked him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They probably asked admins

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yes but only to admins. They must be an admin with an alt account