So, I was recently banned from a community for being a “serial downvoter”. If the votes I’ve cast there were only downvotes, that surprises me, but I’m looking to gather more information about how, historically, I’ve voted in that community before I seek an appeal with the mods.

Being banned from that community, I can’t see my my votes in that community just by sorting by “new” and scrolling through all posts in the community looking for blue (upvotes) here and orange (downvotes) there to get a rough idea of how much I’ve upvoted and how much I’ve downvoted specifically in that community. (And even that sounds like a pain.)

I tried lemvotes.org. It will give me every post and comment I’ve ever upvoted or downvoted, which is great, I guess, but it’s not really easy to see which votes were for what communities. In fact, it’s not really easy to see what votes are for what instances. Each vote has an associated link on lemvotes.org to the post (or comment) I voted on, but domain name of the link doesn’t necessarily go to the instance that hosts the post. As in (for instance) a post I downvoted that shows up on lemvotes.org with a link to a piefed.zip may take me to a post that was originally posted to a programming.dev-instance community. So the domain of the link doesn’t narrow it down any. As far as I can tell, the only option lemvotes.org affords me is to look exhaustively at all of my votes, click the link for each of them, take note of what instance/community the vote was cast on, and keep a tally of upvotes/downvotes only for the community I’m particularly concerned with, which would be super time consuming. And I haven’t found any better options.

But I haven’t really found any better options, and I’m hoping you folks might have an idea or two. I guess worst case, I can DM the mod without getting this information, but I’d really rather go into that conversation a little more informed. (And, I suppose, if I find out that the only votes I’ve cast in that community are downvotes, I might decide not to even pursue an unban. But I’ll see what I can find out, at least.)

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
    25·
    20 hours ago

    I can’t help you with finding those votes, but as someone who’s gotten similar bans 3 times now: You’ve probably just downvoted a couple posts by a mod and they got annoyed. That’s how it’s been every time for me, a low single-digit number of downvotes was enough to be a “serial downvoter”. Ultimately, I’d ask myself whether it’s even worth it to appeal those bans. Do you really want to participate in a community run by mods who do that kind of thing?

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    14 hours ago

    I just don’t care for public voting. love if the system would track my private voting for the feed but I don’t trust the rest of your alls opinion as far as I can throw it.

  • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
    13·
    20 hours ago

    There are a few communities with mods who accuse anyone who downvotes as few as one or two posts in the community without also upvoting or commenting on something else as being a ‘serial downvoter’ even if their actual ratio overall is over 95% upvotes. So if your overall ration on lemvotes is mostly upvotes it was probably one of those mods, especially if they banned you from one or more AI slop communities.

    I would check and see if you are even missing out on anything from the community and just ignore the ban if you don’t care about the content.

    • TootSweet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      15 hours ago

      Ha! I don’t mod many communities, but I like to think I’m pretty reasonable about it. I definitely try to err on the side of not taking mod action.

  • zabadoh@ani.social
    3·
    17 hours ago

    Good question.

    There are alternative web front ends for Lemmy.

    I see you’re on lemmy.world, which has the photon alt-front end installed.

    Go to https://photon.lemmy.world/ and log in

    After you log in, look at the left column, and click on “Profile” which should be a the top left.

    After you do that, in the center column, you should see a bunch of menu options: “Submissions Edit Blocked Credentials …”.

    Click on the ellipses “…”

    That should pull down a menu, and select “Downvoted”

    It might take a while, but it should pull up all the posts and comments that you have downvoted.

    You can’t filter by /c, or by post or comment, but there it is.

    • TootSweet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Thanks for this! I’m not sure it’s working correctly for me. It’s only showing five downvoted posts. (And according to lemvotes.org, I’ve downvoted over 300 posts.) After that it gives me an error: TypeError: can't access property "data", W.value[r.feedId] is undefined and the “retry” button doesn’t do anything. But it still gives me something to try if I can figure a way to fix that somehow.

  • kibblebits@quokk.auEnglish
    53·
    21 hours ago

    I suggest you get a new username, and use a client that hides the votes entirely so you’re not tempted to influenced by the worst feature to ever grace a social network.

    • TootSweet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      Making it possible to vote up and/or down while preventing double-voting for the same account in a distributed application like Fediverse sort of applications seems challenging at best unless every instance knows exactly who voted which way on what. What I wish is that Lemmy would make it a proper feature that it was public information who voted on what.

      I dunno. Maybe it would be possible to implement some zero-knowledge proof sort of thing that would keep people from double-voting (purposefully or accidentally) without anybody but the voter knowing who voted for what. But absent that, I’d rather that seeing that information wasn’t limited to an elite group of users composed of just mods/admins. I’d also rather that I didn’t have to go to a separate site to see information about upvotes and downvotes.

      I suppose the argument could be made that we could get away with not having votes. Just make how high it shows up high on the “hot” sort by how many comments it has. Though I do feel like there are “good” posts that I’d want to see with few/no comments.

      • kibblebits@quokk.auEnglish
        3·
        15 hours ago

        Or don’t manipulate the popularity of a thing and just show everything by date. If a thing can be manipulated, it shouldn’t be a thing.

    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      20 hours ago

      Unless you sort ONLY by new, you’re a hypocrite who’s benefiting from the vote function. Even active sort is indirectly counting votes since the most posts with the most votes tend to garner the most comments.

        • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
          3·
          17 hours ago

          I couldnt imagine using all.

          Selecting the places I want to see is a big list already.

          I am not going to just put crap in front of me for no reason.

          • TootSweet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            3·
            16 hours ago

            I have a very selective list of “I want to see all the posts that get posted to this community” communities that I’m subscribed to that gives me like 5 posts per day at most, and I sort that by subscribed/new. Once I’m done catching up with those, I go to all/new, and I block communities I don’t ever want to see again. It’s nice because 1) I get to see all the posts I really want to see, 2) I can block the “crap I don’t want in front of me for no reason”, and 3) new communities that I might be interested in make it in front of my eyes without me having to go search for them or hope the ones I’d want to see happen to come up in a “new communities” community on my feed.

      • kibblebits@quokk.auEnglish
        5·
        20 hours ago

        I actually only use ALL sorted by New. I don’t sub to any communities. I find it’s the best way to view lemmy. I will block communities or instances I’m disinterested in, as a way to make that feed less noisy.