geteilt von: https://lemmy.world/post/41163572
Both mods are also moderators of [email protected]; they are admins, this is their instance, and they are engaging in vote tampering to boost their instance and its communities over the rest of the fediverse.
Rule 4 of that comm is:
Don’t downvote because you disagree. Doing so repeatedly may result in a ban
All the bans are from people just downvoting this post (but people who downvoted + commented didn’t get banned). Call the rule stupid or whatever, but this seems like honest enforcement of an established rule so I’d hardly call it PTB behaviour.
…That post is blatant misinformation. If you aren’t allowed to downvote misinformation, then what ARE you allowed to downvote?
Sure, it’s a bad article that relies on iffy reasoning, but it manages to dress that up enough that I can see why someone might be duped by it. And it hardly seems fair to be this vitriolic about someone being misinformed and enforcing their comm rules when no actually points out what’s wrong with what’s been posted or links to actual numbers, rather than guesstimations of the article author.
So why is the admin punishing people for not being duped by it? If you’re told it’s misinformation, and you go out of your way to defend it, then you’re not duped. You’re part of the misinformation. And an admin using admin powers to support that misinformation is just propoganda.
How is just downvoting something telling someone a post is misinformation? People downvote stuff over the most random crap here. Also, they didn’t use admin powers, no site bans were handed out only 3 month comm bans.
Unless you sort by new, a downvote lowers visibility of a post, thus preventing people from being exposed to misinformation. It also frames the article as something most people disapprove of, making it less likely people will believe the article uncritically. Separately, there were comments telling the admin the article was inaccurate, and the admin defended the post.
Please stop going out of your way to defend misinformation.
