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AITA - I downvoted a power-mod (kbin.social)

submitted 11 months ago by Blakerboy777@kbin.social to c/amitheasshole@kbin.social

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One guy banned me from 18 magazines for downvoting him. (Side note: 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 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.

Am I the asshole here?

[Note: not my story, but I figure this mag could use an inaugural post]
https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/271692

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[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The plot thickens.

Looks like the OP was also going through and systematically downvoting every post and comment the mod made. This is looking like it might be an ESH situation.

[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Why do pointless AITA bait...

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The original OP is NTA.

I have come across multiple accounts like this. All the sole mod of multiple mags that are:

Empty of subscribers and content.

Direct clones of r sub names.

My scary thought is that they are run by people who looked at R's power mods and thought "Wish I could have that power."

[–] HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Something similar happened to me a couple weeks ago. I downvoted someone, then they got mad and downvoted most of my entire history. Simultaneously pathetic and troubling.

On a related note, how does one report a user rather than a specific post? I did send a message to the devs, but I’m not sure if that’s the right way to report someone.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

I was trying to find a way to report a user just yesterday and couldn't find any solution.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

NTA

However, IMO it's pointless to complain about being able to see downvotes because them being available to all users is an inevitable consequence of how federation works. Sure, you can obfuscate them by choosing not to expose them in the UI, but if anybody with even a little motivation can see them anyway then what's the point?