• sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    As a rule of thumb I downvote any post that mentions being downvoted or complains about the reaction to a post or comment.

    I will give this whole thread a pass, though 🙂

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    16 hours ago

    Apparently it’s the button you press to get banned from a community.

    ASK ME HOW I KNOW

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      15 hours ago

      Mine wasn’t.

      Communities trying to have alternate meanings for upvotes/downvotes must keep in mind that people scrolling posts across communities won’t generally notice the community and if they do they won’t read the rules and will vote however they want. Trying to force them to follow some silly community specific process is tilting at windmills and bitching about it is embarrassing.

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    17 hours ago

    Fr like if you don’t like the way people are using the downvote feature why make a post whinging about it and not just make your account on an instance that has it disabled???

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        16 hours ago

        Indeed, and this is a pinned post on Ye Power Trippin’ Bastards. Posters ask if their bans were justified. Downvotes bury the post, preventing an audience from making their opinion about it.

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      10 hours ago

      Because it has a legit use. It’s just also used to create an echo chamber.

      If you believe that people can be just a little responsible, it’s better to have it around.

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        6 hours ago

        Yeah if the problem is specific to a community I see how the software’s limitations could be an issue. I’m still unsure of what you were hoping to achieve with the post though.

        Idk, it can be kinda exhausting but I guess I kinda just operate on the assumption that strangers online are gonna act like a bunch of insufferable contrarians (I’m not always above that sort of thing myself).

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    16 hours ago

    I couldn’t even post an album there because the instance apparently sees external imgur albums as image spam or something stupid.

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          13 hours ago

          This is because you linked multiple images in the same post and you got marked as spam. Just link one album link

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            13 hours ago

            I linked 1 album with IIRC 5 images as the thread submission, and a link to a screencap of the modlog, along with some links to the relevant posts and stuff in the body. What exactly was the spam part about this that deserved to be flagged?

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              5 hours ago

              The post links are badly formatted. Can you try reposting it but make each link be a proper hyperlink on the text? I want to see if it happen again. I think it’s because of too many @ signs, whbich was what the spam bot was doing to ping mastodon users

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              12 hours ago

              There was a persistent spam wave where they followed similar behaviour of posting too many image links. I can’t see the exact rule now but I’ll try to review later to see why you were caught as a false positive