I don’t think so, votes are public by nature, and it is useful to be able to find where and how users vote to make judgements based on vote manipulation. I say this as someone who has dealt with huge amounts of vote manipulation in my own communities.

Although the fact they are offering opt outs from instance admins instead of making it censorship/defederation hardened does make me lose faith in the integrity of lemvotes as a service since it no longer will show a majority of votes due to admins opting out.

By the way if Lemmy-UI doesn’t let you remove the mod, use photon or Tesseract to do it.

This is the second post in a row here about his actions.

It means that someone is being allowed to mod who shouldn’t be.

!stable_diffusion_witches@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Looks like @PugJesus@lemmy.world has been going on a rampage against people who are critical of Israel lately, PTB for sure.

@goat@sh.itjust.works Might want to kick this mod out of your community since he’s poisoning it for others and kicking out people he shouldn’t be.

This shit is completely irrelevant to the post here. Also if you feel this way why did you join an instance with a literal AI banner and AI taglines?

You are an awful gatekeeping transphobic person. These views you are sharing are extremely transphobic and hurtful. Trans friendly communities ask people to use and respect neopronouns because respecting people’s identities makes them feel safe and happy, and not doing so can cause distress and dysphoria. You’re a fellow trans person, you should know better.

This person also believes that xenogenders and probably Nonbinary people as well are hurting the trans community, they claim that we’re making a fool of “actual trans people” and that we’re “causing transphobia”. Absolutely shitty person I have no idea why the admins of her home server or this one haven’t banned her yet for being a transmedicalist ass.

@ehushagen@lemmy.ca Interesting account, totally not suspicious at all.

@Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com Looks like the trolls are getting desperate, they’re not even bothering to try and hide the vote manipulation anymore. They’re just outright using accounts with nothing on them to bypass bans on their main account.

And here we have a troll account…

So far it’s going pretty well, nothing major happened in real life and on Lemmy things seem calm this week, no one harassing me, at least not yet.

It’s absolutely the same person, see my comment in this thread. Their posts in my communities were mocking my alcoholism and encouraging me to have a drink.

I don’t usually reply here but this person is lying about why they got banned. People here are right to suspect them of worse because they posted this gem in !stable_diffusion_witches@lemmy.dbzer0.com and their username is specifically targeting me. YDM.

@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com @Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com @fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com I think you might want to give this asshole the boot and report them to sh.itjust.works admins.

I never heard of Lemmygrad but after I saw this post I checked them out and I do not think it would be wise to federate with them. They seem terrible. They seem like they’re worse than hexbear.

Oh I wasn’t thinking that deeply that server admins would identify me through advanced methods I was thinking more that regular users including the trolls from fuck_AI would identify me through my behavior and the things I talk about. Since I already talked about them here.

Yeah it would be nice. Display names work well enough, but it would be better to have flairs since they can be more noticeable.

Thank you for your response. I do agree that banning people en masse can have a negative impact in how people see me, and I don’t exactly like it even though I do it a lot. But I do it because at the moment Lemmy doesn’t have any other options to ameliorate the mass downvoting that my AI communities receive and they would be in the high negatives by now being seen and enjoyed by no one if I didn’t try to do something.

Yeah I agree with that last part, it’s not good to let people see vulnerability. I don’t know about having a second account I’m bad at managing two accounts especially since I don’t use any fancy Lemmy apps, just the browser and my phone with a PWA thing so having more than one account would be a pain and I would probably forget. Also I feel like people would identify my alt anyway from my history here since I would still vent just as much there about the things I’ve already vented about. I already do try my best by not interacting much with them or simply reporting them. Though Lemmy is my only social media since I cut everything else off a while ago so it’s hard to do anything beyond not responding to and simply reporting trolls.

I think it’s a good idea to be able to call out bad moderation practices but I think that bellyaching and free speech entitlement needs to be culled way more aggressively to make it actually work, otherwise it’ll just be filled with the worst people all the time complaining that they got banned, even though it was for more than good reasons.

It cannot be neutral, it has to have some level of bias to balance out the natural bias of moderation disproportionately affecting those who really deserve it, otherwise it’ll be a majority of people who really deserve it commenting and shit-talking there, and they’ll talk over a lot of the real issues and make them harder to discuss, or worse seem less credible.

Will do 👍