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.
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?
Not directly but since it’s federated information it would be trivial to extract or view such as running a 1 user instance and viewing the sql database, and theres likely tools now to automate that
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.
Yes but only to admins. They must be an admin with an alt account
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.
Imo that’s malicious.
They are using their position to influence the trajectory and visibility of posts. The motivation doesn’t matter