I logged into Kbin today to see 18 notifications where the same guy banned me from all of their magazines for downvoting them.

I was only subscribed to 1 of those magazines, but it’s still annoying to wake up to 18 ban messages from someone who got easily angered from a downvote.

(Side note: IMO, this is why being able to see downvotes is bad. Even if anyone could see them by spinning up their own instance, that’s a lot of work compared to pressing 2 buttons.)

I’ve blocked the guy, but is there anything that can be done to stop this from proliferating across the site?

  • Chozo@kbin.social
    19·
    1 year ago

    Looks like he may have just been removed from his mod position on a few magazines, as his profile only shows him modding 14 now. Hopefully the other magazines he’s on realize what he’s doing and do something about him.

    • NightAuthor@beehaw.org
      5·
      1 year ago

      Nah fam, it’s the inter webs, we hunt witches and burn them. And this guy definitely floats in water.

      • McBinary@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think there can possibly be a justifiable reason he was banned from every one of that mod’s magazines, and then for the mod to systematically put a downvote on every single one of the user’s posts. Clearly they both did it, but still, not moderator worthy behavior.

        • euphoria@kbin.social
          5·
          1 year ago

          at this point, i have no idea what happened, but am open to hearing the full story. i’d like to assume there isn’t a justifiable reason for it, but we honestly shouldn’t assume anything till we see both sides. like someone else said, OP has also downvoted all their comments/posts, it could have been in response to it, or maybe not. we need the full story here

    • EnglishMobster@kbin.socialOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      The 18 number is the number of unread messages I had at the time. They were all “you have been banned.” I just went back and counted; I have 18 messages (across 2 pages of notifications now).

      It’s possible that they extended the length of the ban and doing so gave me another message; the bans were all different lengths. Or it could be some duplication happening server-side.

      • Gork@lemm.ee
        5·
        1 year ago

        If it’s any consolation, you’ll be unbanned from one of them in 2095, and should be unbanned from the rest by 2105.