The bait post does read like a 9 year old just learned the words pipi, caca, boudin or something.

I might not have all the numbers because it’s a remote community (to me) and it seems the bans and some of these downvotes might not all have federated to us, maybe from a lack of SJW subscribers at some point in time.
Those I can see have single digits total votes, so that wouldn’t really meet my ban threshold even for a small community.

I do ban mass-downvoters now and then on SJW. At some point, if your only interaction with a community is repeatedly, exclusively downvoting stuff, either learn to curate your feed or GTFO, but I do have a much higher bar than this.

Coming to the community, especially a small one, just to downvote without posting a single post/comment is antisocial as fuck so stuck your rage where the sun don’t shine, sweetie.

Your reference to “respectful dissent” shows you don’t understand what the rule means - it is to encourage participation, ie posting and commenting. Blanket downvoting has exactly opposite effect discouraging participation.

Yeah no your war on this community is pointless. They are allowed to exist just like you and if you don’t like it you can hide them and move on.

Well, this is one where the subject is kinda beat to death.

Blanket down voting is a shitty thing, and it is completely appropriate for mods to ban people that do it

However, they should have a definitive criteria for what thresholds they use to determine what is and isn’t blanket down voting.

Myself, I down vote stuff on there that’s either off topic for the place, or stuff that’s utter bullshit, and/or stuff that’s YouTube drek because the YouTube drek is never sourced well. A link to a video is way too likely to be bullshit when it comes down to fad, niche, or weird diets.

Which means I end up down voting more than I do otherwise.

And, there’s very rarely any posts worth engaging in.

By the apparent metrics, I should have already been banned. Which means that the apparent metrics don’t match what’s being used in practice.

However! I think that’s less PTB and more “clueless” mods that don’t have experience running a controversial community. The more controversial the subject is, the clearer you have to be with how, when, and why you’re going to take action, unless you want to end up on a community like this one, lol.

Yeah, don’t go to communities you dislike and downvote everything. It’s a dick move. Just block them.

The initial removal was about rule 3 - no rage baiting. That rule has been removed.

Well, that explains why the posts were restored? Mods are allowed to change rules, right?