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.

  • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

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

    • kitnaht@lemmy.world
      0·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • plactagonic@sopuli.xyz
        01·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          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.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        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.

    • lakeeffect@lemmy.world
      02·
      3 months ago

      It might not be malicious. If a moderator is trying to cultivate a new community and wants certain type of content, one of the things they need to control is the rating of that content.

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Imo that’s malicious.

        They are using their position to influence the trajectory and visibility of posts. The motivation doesn’t matter