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What's the weirdest rule you've seen a website have as a part of its rules? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 32 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There was a politics subreddit I was on that had a "downvoting is not allowed" rule. There's literally no way to tell who's downvoting on Reddit, or even if downvoting is happening if it's not enough to go below 0 or trigger the "controversial" indicator.

I got permabanned from that subreddit when someone who'd said something offensive asked "why am I being downvoted???" And I tried to explain to them why that was the case. No trial, one million years dungeon, all modmail ignored. I guess they don't get to enforce that rule often and so leapt at the opportunity to find an excuse.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

CanadaPolitics, right? That rule never made sense to me.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 points 5 months ago

Yup. Fortunately unsubscribing from politics subreddits is generally advisable whether one has been banned from them or not.

[–] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think on the desktop version many years ago the downvote button was hidden, but if you visited from anywhere else you could downvote.

[–] Gurfaild@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago

You could also downvote on the desktop site by using the RES keyboard shortcut

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

There are fewer lifeforms in the universe lower than Reddit mods.