Context: PugJesus often spams low quality posts across the dozen or so communities they mod, apparently downvoting low effort spam on my frontpage is trolling. The only other action in the modlog is a different ban for 74 years for “Mass downvoting innocuous content,” so it definitely seems they are just banning people that dislike their spam. Glad we’re not missing out on the reddit mod experience here.
Sounds like an unfortunate phenomenon. People who post a lot on social media, especially online communities, might have limited social lives compared to people who don’t post a lot. And thus they might… define themselves a little bit, by the success of their posts? Perhaps? That’s what I’m thinking. And so they become very defensive and protective of their online presence and it’s a fragile thing for them if it’s a large part of who they are.