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The mod banning these users is the same mod who made the posts they downvoted. This is mod abuse, turning the downvote button into an auto-self-ban button.
The message is "If you disagree with me, you will be banned"
Monitoring and banning users for using lemmy as intended to signal boost your opinion should be grounds to have all mod privileges removed. This behaviour undermines the integrity of the server and the wider fediverse.
How do they even know you downvoted? I was banned from a carnivore's communities once and can't say I'd ever even seen them. Claimed I was committing "systemic downvoting." Even if I had, how would they know? I started some tiny little communities on another instance, just to learn really, ~~and I have no such privied data available to me as a mod (at least not that I know of so far)~~. I should have posted that weirdo.
Please do, holding people accountable is half the fun of lemmy.
Now that I understand the mechanics of it all slightly better, I wouldn't let that happen again.