YDI, if you believe a community or instance doesn't have a legitimate right to exist because it's dangerous you need to report the dangerous content instead of simply downvoting them to suppress them. Also mass downvoting whole communities or users does count as an act of vote manipulation or abuse.
So to recap, you've not avoided reporting content you believe to be dangerous, but also have engaged in abusive voting behaviors. Voting patterns that many instances (not just communities) would indeed ban someone for.
Draconic kind of hit the nail on the head with this one. Going into a community you don’t like and mass downvoting everything isn’t super awesome, and there’s no rule against the moderator of that community banning you for it.
This is one of those situations where the best thing for you to do is disengage
There is no rule saying you can’t downvote the posts and downvoting isn’t “uncivil”
Being a removed is though
If you act like a dick regarding others' beliefs, they will shun you. It's been like that since the dawn of time
Would you walk into someone's barbecue and start your preaching like that, then act all confused when someone fuckin decks you with an entire, raw pig?
Then the people who against veganism need to stop brigading vegan communities and stop crying when they get banned.
Of course you resort to name calling and being rude.
are they actually keeping track of who's upvoting what?
It's a part of Lemmy in general, we've had ban waves based on voting patterns before.
