Apparently I’m banned from !imageai@sh.itjust.works now. That’s a community for posting AI-generated images.
My feed is set to “all”/“new”. So I see every post that comes into the Lemmy servers that lemmy.world federates with. Or at least those that come in while I’m on and browsing.
I downvote what I don’t like. And I don’t like AI-generated images. I downvote any that come across my feed. I don’t seek out AI-generated images to downvite. (That feels too much like brigading.) So, I wouldn’t, say, go to !imageai@sh.itjust.works and downvote every post there. Just the ones that “organically” come across my feed.
Today, I clicked “downvote” on a post from !imageai@sh.itjust.works and the down-arrow wouldn’t change color to register my downvote. Lemmy’s error messaging is lacking, so I had to go to my developer tools to find out for sure, but the server clearly indicated the reason why it wouldn’t accept my downvote was because I was banned from !imageai@sh.itjust.works . (I can downvote posts on other sh.itjust.works communities.)
So, apparently one of the mods of !imageai@sh.itjust.works noticed I downvoted some posts from !imageai@sh.itjust.works and had never upvoted any posts in that community and decided to ban me.
I’m honestly not really sure whether I or they (or both or neither) am/are in the wrong here. But I was interested to see that just downvoting could get me banned from a community.
Anyone else been banned from any communities for similar behavior?
why didnt you just, block the community? if you didnt want content from the community, it makes sense to block it and not downvote it (which is a huge problem for some communities who misuse what downvotes should be for)
the entire lemmynsfw server had a debate because of the behavior