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Is there a way to ban a non-commenter who keeps abusing the report system? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world to c/moderators@lemmy.world

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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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[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The new hobby of mods chasing people for not voting the way they like is nasty

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does lemmy show vote history?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Some people put in the legwork.

There is a very active account that mods a couple big communities. I saw them acting like a jackass and down voted like 4-5 of their comments in a chain, got a DM "informing" me that he could see votes...

They're not an admin, just a mod and on a normal instance.

I legitimately don't know why admins are cool with him, but they are. So I just blocked him.

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

At this moment, only admins can, no? I'm a mod and unable to see votes

[–] lakeeffect@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Imo that's malicious.

They are using their position to influence the trajectory and visibility of posts. The motivation doesn't matter