Its a shame because they’re prominent voice on lemmy. Good on the admins for not tolerating this. I don’t understand the point of targeting a person you don’t like on the internet just because they said something that upset you and spamming their post with downvotes. If you don’t like someone block their ass and be done with it. I agree with the perspective that its harassment (and an incredibly petty ineffective form of it at that)

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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      And it got banned by the admin so he made a new one on lemmy.world! Holy shit he’s just refusing to consider he’s being weird.

      • @[email protected]
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        “nEoLiBeRaLiSm WoN”

        Hey yacht boy, what are you doing hanging out with us tankies?

        … what.

    • @[email protected]
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      Lmao I thought you were joking for a second

      Shout out to PJ who embodies the “fuck you, I will NEVER stop posting” mentality

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        Doesn’t dbzer0 literally have a ‘disengage’ rule because the default experience there is "“fuck you, I will NEVER stop posting”?

  • @[email protected]
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    I’ll never understand people who argue and fight beyond the initial disagreement. I mean, even that should be civil (though I’m often not when I feel attacked by someone misrepresenting my point). I’ve got way too little free time to try to chase someone around the internet.

    Happy to be on Lemmy, though, where my interactions have been mostly positive. Sometimes it’s good to know when to sign off and take a break. Think I’ll get back to the show I was streaming.

  • Cowbee [he/they]
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    Unsurprising, that user is a power-poster and power-mod that constantly tries to shit-stir. Figured it was only a matter of time before something like this happened.

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      Bruh… cowbee talking about shit stirring… i only know we’re in a glass house cause you started throwing stones.

      • Cowbee [he/they]
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        I pretty plainly admit to focusing on correcting misinterpretations of Marxism and Marxism-Leninism, I spend very little time power posting, and I don’t own and moderate drama communities. I also don’t downvote troll people, or stalk them and post about them on drama comms.

        I’m certainly opinionated, and have my own political views I don’t shy away from, but I think it’s pretty clear that this is a fundamentally different situation.

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          Meh, like I guess, but honestly when someone lifts you out of the bucket of shit you’re stirring, the shape of you is obscured by the fact you are also covered in the shit you stirred along with this loser.

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            Don’t really follow, are you just saying that because I’m opinionated and like to talk about Marxism, I’m the same kind of shit-stirrer that constantly posts memes trying to provoke a response, and mods a bunch of drama communities specifically about snooping on people for screengrabs? I can’t say I agree.

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                “Shit birds, randy, a wh- whole flock of em, all washing themselves with shit water in shit buckets in their houses of glass smeared in shit, randal.”

                "what kind of shit birds are we talking about here mister AWistfulNihilist? The shit hawks are back again brought in by the winds of shit?

                “Even worse, boy…”

                “Shit Ostriches, Randy. We gotta call in the heavies on this one.”

  • @[email protected]
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    He tends to get into a fight every single time I see him post and somebody says something that’s even slightly controversial, which results in an easily hundred long comment thread.

    He’s more than willing to follow you around from thread to thread to and from community to community If he sees something on your profile he doesn’t like or he disagrees with your political opinions.

    If this is a Lemmy, anarchist instance, full of a bunch of super lefties, they’re not gonna appreciate a Radlib coming in trying to start shit up and downvoting a bunch of people. They’re probably just gonna block him like they have.

    I think the recommendation here is if you’re gonna downvote people, you probably want to just stick to downvoting people directly in the thread you’re engaging with and not go in that person’s profile and downvote every single thing they’ve ever done. Or claim that every single thing they’ve ever done is something you disagree with.

    Unfortunately, he’s a prolific proster, and some of his stuff is funny 🤷

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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      He’s more than willing to follow you around from thread to thread to and from community to community If he sees something on your profile he doesn’t like or he disagrees with your political opinions.

      And when you call him out on it, he’ll make a new community to shame you for not liking him.

      It’s really funny that I called him out for it, he said he doesn’t do it, and then make a community that got banned that’s all about doing it.

    • @[email protected]
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      He tends to get into a fight every single time I see him post and somebody says something that’s even slightly controversial, which results in an easily hundred long comment thread.

      I dread to think of what you consider only ‘slightly controversial’.

      He’s more than willing to follow you around from thread to thread to and from community to community If he sees something on your profile he doesn’t like or he disagrees with your political opinions.

      lmao, what.

      If this is a Lemmy, anarchist instance, full of a bunch of super lefties, they’re not gonna appreciate a Radlib coming in trying to start shit up and downvoting a bunch of people. They’re probably just gonna block him like they have.

      1. I’m literally a DemSoc, and I’m quite open about this. Sorry that I don’t fit your convenient stereotype for “Bad Poster”?

      2. They literally haven’t blocked me.

      3. If you count “disagreeing with someone without commenting” or, as accused elsewhere, “disagreeing with someone and commenting once when your name is mentioned” as “starting shit up”, I question what level of disagreement you think is appropriate.

      I think the recommendation here is if you’re gonna downvote people, you probably want to just stick to downvoting people directly in the thread you’re engaging with and not go in that person’s profile and downvote every single thing they’ve ever done. Or claim that every single thing they’ve ever done is something you disagree with.

      Again, as pointed out in our conversation, and, for that matter, by the admission of the person being discussed here as ‘harassed’, none of that is true.

      But I guess backpedaling admission in order to peddle blatant falsehoods in a new comment chain is all you have at this point. You already backpedaled twice in that comment chain; gotta get a new thread out for exposure of repeating the same bullshit talking points, huh?

      I don’t care, I am just pointing out the hypocrisy of the situation.

      You don’t care, of course.

      • @[email protected]
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        SocDem is not a marxist or an anarchist.

        Liberal does not count as a lefty. I’d much rather deal with anarchist comrades than liberal comrades.

        Please keep posting that screenshot. If people actually read it, it does not say what you think it means.

        No, I don’t care. I think you should go touch grass. I think this is fucking hilarious. I think you’re a whinger for having to go create your own community just to go whine about this.

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          Liberals can be lefties. They can’t be leftists.

          PJ has claimed to be both an anarchist and a liberal when we were arguing, that’s why I blocked the guy, lying about his positions as a rhetorical tactic. Since I assume he’s the blocked guy swinging in the comments I also assume he’s now claiming to be a DemSoc, which is funny.

          On the other hand, maybe he’s just figuring stuff out as he goes along like everyone else :)

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            He could be figuring stuff out but man they are abrasive.

            He gonna grind through a ton of people before he figures anything out

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          SocDem is not a marxist or an anarchist.

          DemSoc. Holy fucking shit. Literally read theory.

          Please keep posting that screenshot. If people actually read it, it does not say what you think it means.

          I’m not sure if you’re being disingenuous or if your literacy is legitimately at that level.

          • @[email protected]
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            This crashout is fucking legendary, I’m really enjoying the back and forth between you and the dude who talks exactly like you, bucket guy. I’m not saying your the same person or anything, it’s just amazing another one of you exists!

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              I mean, I was getting attacked by him earlier, but it seems that Philip isn’t quite the same as Pug. He’ll step back occasionally and try to reach out to your better side.

              PJ is basically just an attack dog.

              Was reading things a little too fast, my dyslexia was getting me.

              I think I’ve done okay so far.

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            DemSoc is not Marxist and hasn’t been since before the fall of the USSR.

            No, it’s just clear your comprehension isn’t where it actually needs to be and you didn’t read that screenshot carefully enough to see what it actually says.

            I bet the whole reason you don’t read Marxist theories is because you literally don’t understand what they’re saying.

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              DemSoc also just bugs me as a label, all socialism is democratic. What DemSocs should really label themselves is reformist socialists, but because they can’t help but attack Marxists, they stick to cold war slander against AES by pretending reformist socialism is the only democratic form of socialism.

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                DemSoc also just bugs me as a label, all socialism is democratic.

                Oh, so the Soviet Union wasn’t socialist, you agree, then? And neither is the PRC?

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                  Nah, the PRC is democratic, and so was the USSR. Both are examples of socialism in the real world. I really don’t know what you’re trying to do here, I think you need to step away from the keyboard for a bit because you seem to have been here for hours now.

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    While I think lemmy is great compared to reddit I still don’t like the whole upvote and downvote system. As it’s mostly based on people who agree with something and they will downvote you if they disagree with you. There should just be commends and replies to comments imo. At least downvoted posts don’t get hidden from view I guess.

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      Why does this matter? If I disagree and dislike something, why not give me a “don’t like that” button?

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      I disagree with you. I’d never want to go back to the old defaults in forums, of un-threaded conversations where every comment is equal (and generally sorted by timestamp). Some comments are just better than others, and a user interface should prioritize the better comments.

      Comments that are interesting, funny, or informative can be read by more people when they’re shown earlier in the page.

      Comments that are rude, factually incorrect, off topic, etc., can be de-emphasized in the user interface, even if they don’t technically break any rules. I’d rather it be a community driven decision than a mod-driven decision of the harsh consequences of comment removal or user ban.

      The key is to find a community whose collective opinions you respect. Crowds may not be perfect, but they’re generally better than individual mods.

      And a naive “newest first” sort algorithm just prioritizes frequent posters and incentivizes “bumping” threads, which also detracts from the overall quality of a forum.

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        All it really does is prioritize herd mentality though, like if you don’t think like the others then you get downvoted and your comment hidden. I think this is just bad and was the main thing I hated about reddit.

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        The key is to find a community whose collective opinions you respect. Crowds may not be perfect, but they’re generally better than individual mods.

        Agree with most of this with the * that you don’t need to respect the communities collective opinions in every way. Sometimes its okay to think different, know you’re saying something many won’t like out of sheer difference in principle, and post it anyways. Its okay to be downvote bombed and shuffled down the viewing priority as long as you aren’t being outright censored in scummy ways. I feel genuinely bad for actual adults with such thin skin and need for internet community validation who get salty at a bad ratio of up arrows to down arrows to the point of reflexively editing their comment to talk down to strawmen.

        I’ve been on lemmy a few years now even though I genuinely do not like a lot of the communities prefered topics and conversational archetypes, because I feel respected enough as a user to say and post what i’d like within the bounds of community rules without getting shadowbanned for talking about the wrong thing or having 15 automods tell me im not allowed to post a meme without 15 upvote points. Its a decently struck balance.

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    Dbzer0 mods temp banned me for trolling recently. I was actually taken aback because on Reddit my sarcasm would be pretty mild. Can’t argue with the premise, glad our mods are trying to make Lemmy less toxic and I learned a valuable lesson actually. Just disengage and move on.

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      I wasn’t banned for any comments, though. I was banned because, apparently, it’s unlawful to downvote comments you disagree with if it’s a commenter the dbzer0 admins like.

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          Yes, mass downvoting things for no reason is different from downvoting things you disagree with. If you go down a page and downvote every artifact there, and then illustrations, and then ruins, at some point it becomes apparent that it’s not because of a very eclectic and specific aesthetic preference. I’m sorry if that’s too complex for you to understand.

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            I mean, if you’re downvoting everybody’s page, and claiming that you just disagree with everything they post, then yeah, I can see why they would ban you.

            Unfortunately for you, you’re not exactlu sunshine and rainbows, so I can imagine people aren’t exactly willing to just take you at your word.

            I don’t care, I am just pointing out the hypocrisy of the situation.

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              I mean, if you’re downvoting everybody’s page, and claiming that you just disagree with everything they post, then yeah, I can see why they would ban you.

              Except it wasn’t everything they posted, even by their own admission, in this very comment thread, no less:

              His account of my behavior is not correct, nor are his bizarre claims of what I said, but he admits that I didn’t just blanket downvote.

              Unfortunately for you, you’re not exactlu sunshine and rainbows, so I can imagine people aren’t exactly willing to just take you at your word.

              That’s legitimate.

              I don’t care, I am just pointing out the hypocrisy of the situation.

              But as pointed out, the two situations are different - including by the account of the ‘harassed’ user I’m being accused of victimizing.

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                I kinda think you made your own bed.

                Edit:

                Following someone from community to community to downvote, things that you disagree with personally, is an abuse of the vote system, and an abuse of the community system, I think he was absolutely right in blocking you.

                Let this be a lesson. Downvote people in the threads that you’re participating in and in the communities you belong to, and stay out of the communities you don’t.

                • @[email protected]
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                  I kinda think you made your own bed.

                  I apologize for the crime of downvoting comments that I disagree with. I’m sure this is from a place of utter detachment, ‘just pointing out the hypocrisy’ of something you can no longer claim to be hypocrisy. Now it’s just a generic “You deserved it”, lmao.

  • redjard
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    May be this (emphasis mine):

    Removed Comment
    Me: “Oh look, the ghost said something stupid again. I wonder what they’ve been up to.” [clicks profile] [sure enough, more stupid things are said, including blatant misinformation] Sorry that you say stupid things and break the rules, I guess? > I recall a few weeks back he said that because I don’t call out .ml that much (funny how he ignores me calling out Hexbear) I somehow must mass downvote his posts across lemmy. lol I’m sure you can quote me. It would be awful if your memory was as poor as your ability to construct coherent arguments. AND a place of honor in your bio? That’s unironically great. Thanks for helping spread me all over the Fediverse!

    Maybe the admin misread? Or they read that and then actually checked the data and found PJ did downvote all that other users stuff or smthn.

    I tried to take a short look at the data but PJ has over 150k votes which probably breaks the page I use. (Admins can natively see this info in lemmy)

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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      Or they read that and then actually checked the data and found PJ did downvote all that other users stuff or smthn.

      Correct, I gave my admin over 25 links documenting it, after he said he stalks my account to do it.

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        That sounds a lot more justified then, thanks for the info.

        For that extra certainty, was it consecutive comments and posts?
        Could you have feasibly come across all of them organically if you used lemmy an unhealthy amount?

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          For that extra certainty, was it consecutive comments and posts?

          It was anything he disagreed with, so it would skip some posts.

          Could you have feasibly come across all of them organically if you used lemmy an unhealthy amount?

          Even for Pug, no. It was including communities for only db0 members, small communities he’s not part of, and posts going back a month.

          He literally told me he saw me make one post and then stalked my account. He told me he always searches his username online for when people talk about him.

          Deeply disturbed individual who needs to relax.

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      Because it’s rude and not constructive. It’s not a permaban offense but this kind of toxicity is part of why I left Reddit. We can do better and model positive arguments even with people we vehemently disagree with. If someone is being unreasonable, just disengage and move on.

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        People using report function as down vote around this here fora

  • _cryptagion [he/him]
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    I blocked this dude so long ago, but I’m glad to see he’s finally getting his comeuppance.

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      I blocked this dude so long ago, but I’m glad to see he’s finally getting his comeuppance.

      I’ve been removed from the only comm on dbzer0 that I used.

      Wow. Much comeuppance.

      Utterly bizarre.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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      Nah he’s just making alts now to get around people’s blocks and bans from instances who banned him for being a weirdo.

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        Nah he’s just making alts now to get around people’s blocks and bans from instances who banned him for being a weirdo.

        What an utterly bizarre claim. Do you have any proof of this?

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    Why did you feel the need to censor the user name? You know the modlog is public?

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      Mostly trying to abide by the somewhat imprecise rules of the community as a formality.

      When posting screenshots of drama, you must obscure the identity of all the participants.

      I have to ‘obscure the identity of the participant in the screenshot’ in this context meaning blurring usernames, sure no problem. Nobody ever said anything about obscuring non- personally identifying information sources - like the community the modlog came from - that interested people can go out of their way to track down.

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    Prominent is certainly a choice of words

    I wouldnt be surprised if he was the source of the majority if mod reports the last few days - some time off would do him good.

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      I wouldnt be surprised if he was the source of the majority if mod reports the last few days -

      … what

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    Huh I just got banned from that Community a few days ago cuz I got an argument with one of the mods on a completely different community. Wonder if it was the same guy.

    edit I understand the mod in question has responded to this comment. But as I blocked him for repeated harassing private messages I’m not going to engage.

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      You were banned for mass-downvoting innocuous shit in comms for no reason other than that we’d gotten into an argument. I even tried to contact you to figure out if there was a reason you were downvoting swathes of historical artifacts with no apparent similarities, but you gave no response. So I gave you a ban, at which point you blew up and accused me of banning you for not liking a Braveheart meme.

      But as I blocked him for repeated harassing private messages I’m not going to engage.

      (It was more than four, across multiple comms, and they weren’t duplicates)

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    Using lemvotes, I’ve noticed a pattern of at least 3 users downvoting 90℅ of everything I post and I just want to say: If you don’t like me, block me. But I know at least one of those users is a drama creating bully with accounts on seemingly every single instance. Surprised they don’t use all their accounts to downvote. I guess then it would be too obvious. 🤷‍♂️

    I think I will be blocking db0 after all.

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      What are the accounts? You can bring it up our admins and they’ll take care of it.

      Edit: All I did was ask to help them?

      Edit: and they downvoted me wanting to help them, ironic.

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      I am not sure it is really an instance specific phenomena. I have two or three users who do the same to me. One of them appears to be a german user I have never interacted with on Lemmy in any capacity that I know of. It’s just internet things.