And this is the second time in just over a day that I've seen moderators abusing the ability to monitor how people vote.

This behaviour undermines good faith participation. Users should not be afraid of copping bans for using the downvote button as they feel is appropriate.

"It is the correct word for donald trump and the people around him"

Germany should shut the fuck up and stop treating genocides like fucking pokemon.

Punishing users for their individual votes is mod abuse and vote manipulation. You are removing the voting rights of users who dislike your content.

The only acceptable grounds for banning a user based on their votes would be using a sock puppet to vote on a single post or comment multiple times.

If people think your posts are shit, they should be allowed to express that without fear of phantom banning. Suck it up, or delete your account.

Fuck Ricky Gervais

I need to take a shower after reading that.

Talking about alienating people...

I think we could all live without """moderates""" like you.

This is embarrassing, you need to stop. You are throwing a tantrum on the internet, find something better to do with your day.

BREAKING: Bill Mahar is a fucking idiot, more at ten

This just keeps getting more absurd.

because downvoting is one of the central actions pivotal to the kind of social media that Lemmy/piefed/reddit is.

Subservient scum. ACAB.

You got caught lying, take your L and move on

Trying to soften the idea of statutory rape. Nothing will make it okay that donald trump fucked children, no matter how hard he tries to corrupt our views. He will be fed to the woodchipper.

Yeah bud you're such a victim lol

No such thing as a socialist governmental system with bloodline inheritance of a monastic supreme leader. Very silly post, very silly idea.

Downvoting a toxic community is also a valid use of your downvote. Reddit has several examples (gamersriseup, the_donald, fatpeoplehate, among many more examples).

Think of it like concerned citizens yelling at the westboro baptist church for being hateful pieces of shit.

An analogy can really color an argument eh? I don't usually engage in that kind of rhetoric, I find it undermines the conversation by overtly engaging with peoples emotions.

Savages

If only I had an ounce of respect for anything you say lol :D

Move along, bottom feeder.