While scrolling, my fat ass fingers sometimes accidentally tap the upvote or downvote button, and don't go back to change it because I literally do not care at all. I don't give a shit about authoritarianism, I'ma goddamn Marxist-Leninist, but can we just stick to banning people for what they actually do instead of trying to sus out and speculate what they truly feel deep down in their hearts? If people are being bigots, ban them. If people are poking at the boundaries, ban them. But a single upvote or downvote literally doesn't change anything at all. Someone who never posts or comments anything but downvoted posts they don't like and upvotes posts they do, has an extremely negligible impact on the discourse. Why does this even need to be said?

Also can you not ban me for this, maybe?

This is silly guys, maybe shutting down the site as a joke should be ok, this is the dumbest and most unnecessary struggle session :thonk:

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Just at first glance, what makes sense to me is flag posts that are posted in anti_cishet that are solely trans positive, e.g. Brooke's "I love my trans comrades posts", and then if a user has downvoted an arbitrary amount of those, then inspect their profile to see the trend, and then ban them if necessary. Use it sparingly and accurately rather than unnecessarily sweep up a lot of bystanders in the process. Just a suggestion.

  • TheJoker [he/him]
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    I care a lot about trans rights, and banning transphobia, but this has gotta be the most heavy handed way to do it. Mistaking disagreements in methodology for bigotry is bad, as there are trans comrades who also think the methodology is poor. You don’t fucking know me, and it does fucking hurt to be called transphobic when I’m not. At the very, very least I’m trying my best...

    • bewts [he/him,comrade/them]
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      Bans are appealable, worst case people can just make a new account and not upvote transphobic stuff.

      Sometimes you gotta send a message. We're not gonna let reactionaries hide inside the algorithm like they do on Reddit.