I logged into Kbin today to see 18 notifications where the same guy banned me from all of their magazines for downvoting them.

I was only subscribed to 1 of those magazines, but it’s still annoying to wake up to 18 ban messages from someone who got easily angered from a downvote.

(Side note: IMO, this is why being able to see downvotes is bad. Even if anyone could see them by spinning up their own instance, that’s a lot of work compared to pressing 2 buttons.)

I’ve blocked the guy, but is there anything that can be done to stop this from proliferating across the site?

  • willyaA
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    11 months ago

    Wow, banned from a magazine or banned on the entire kbin.social? If an admin is doing that, I’d leave asap and open an account elsewhere.

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      11 months ago

      As OP said, it was 18 Magazines, not the entire site.

      Ernest is our site admin over here on kbin.social, and he’s cool. A bit over worked, but cool. He’s also the dev of kbin.

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        11 months ago

        Well here’s your answer OP. There’s no stopping it. You pissed off the one guy you shouldn’t piss off lol.

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          11 months ago

          But it was not ernest who banned OP. Ernest was mentioned as being the site admin, but as you can see in the screenshot, someone else banned OP.

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            11 months ago

            Yeah I see that now. The reply made it seem like he was the one doing this.

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        11 months ago

        Yep, there are plenty of accounts like that. They must see it as some kind of land grab, not realising that creating redditsubclone1, redditsubclone2 etc on instance A that are empty does not mean they own those names across the fediverse.