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Is there a way to ban a non-commenter who keeps abusing the report system? (self.moderators)
submitted 1 month ago by Ghostalmedia to c/moderators
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago

Do you have such examples? Seems wild

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

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Gotcha