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:

edit:

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.

  • Saint [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I have a little sympathy for that person but ultimately it should be clear that a downvote sends a signal like "this is bad" or "I disagree with this", and without any written explanation it's fair to assume somebody will take that on face value. It'd be like responding to the post with a thumbs-down emoji or something- if you don't think that would be acceptable for a post, then why would downvoting it be?

    As for totally accidental downvotes and upvotes... I dunno, are they really that frequent? If so maybe the fix is a UI improvement

    • TheJoker [he/him]
      2·
      4 years ago

      I made a suggestion on a different comment, but there are ways to ban people for downvoting that are far more accurate, and far less heavy handed. This whole idea needed more time in the oven to make sure it was done right, and judging by the response it clearly wasn’t.