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.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      What’s your experience with them?

      They post a lot of content in some historical artifact community, and they seem very cordial and nice there. Might even be Swedish, but not sure about that.

      You’re not surprised about what exactly, out of curiosity?

      • Jiggle_Physics@piefed.zipEnglish
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        6 months ago

        To me? Nothing. However I have seen many people post getting bans from them for super petty reasons, like downvoting a post.I have also seen this person be a point of contention a few times in some more shitposty places. So I just tend to avoid commenting on anything they post.

          • Wren@lemmy.todayEnglish
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            6 months ago

            I like the historical artifacts posts AND I’ve seen PG be a dick. I try to encourage the good in him through positive reinforcement.

            • Jiggle_Physics@piefed.zipEnglish
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              6 months ago

              Unfortunately, my experience with social media has been that a lot of the most visible posters often are touchy, and can be a little domineering where they can. I look at his history posts, like the art ones, etc. However, unless I specifically have something to say that fully within the confines of the subject, and not negative, I will not post. In other spaces I block them. This isn’t necessarily PJ I am talking about either, this is a broader thing with these platforms. It is what it is I guess.

              • Victor@lemmy.world
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                6 months ago

                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.

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago
    1. Do yourselves a favor and pe-emptively block PG’s communities. He’ll just delete anything you say counter to his “Vaguely Left-Wing” point of view, and he’ll perhaps ban you. He curates them to be ideological bubbles.
    2. I and other mods & admins do ban people for vote spamming. For instance: 1) in the case of alt accounts that some people use solely for voting multiple times, 2) in the case of people who always downvote specific communities and 3) in the case of people who downvote a particular person regardless of the content.

    Edit to add: He posts almost exclusively to the communities he mods.