Lemmy Moderators @lemmy.world Ghostalmedia @lemmy.world 3 mo. ago

Is there a way to ban a non-commenter who keeps abusing the report system?

As far as I’m aware, mods can only access banning functionality on user comments.

If someone in a community keeps pestering mods with BS reports, but that user has not posted a comment in the community, is there a way to ban that person?

I can’t seem to find anything in the UI to handle this use case.

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I know there is, because the mod of 30rock banned me for down voting a couple of their bad memes when they posted like 20 at once.

I have no idea how to do it tho.

If it's just a couple accounts doing it, message that admin account they created I guess.

Maybe DM the 30rock mod? When I was trying to figure out what was going on, their modlog looks like they ban anyone that down votes without being subscribed. So apparently they're the subject matter expert.
- The new hobby of mods chasing people for not voting the way they like is nasty
  
  That's what you get when you allow moderators to see what people up/downvote. Unfortunately, this is simply human behavior - and you have to implement things with the expectation that they are going to be abused.
  
  Does lemmy show vote history?
  
  It might not be malicious. If a moderator is trying to cultivate a new community and wants certain type of content, one of the things they need to control is the rating of that content.
Some alternatives UI like Photon or Tesseract allow for it
- Thanks. I’ll take a look!
- Photon actually doesn't have this currently, but it's a good idea, as I moved appointing moderators to community settings. I'll add this soon!

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