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The mod banning these users is the same mod who made the posts they downvoted. This is mod abuse, turning the downvote button into an auto-self-ban button.
The message is "If you disagree with me, you will be banned"
Monitoring and banning users for using lemmy as intended to signal boost your opinion should be grounds to have all mod privileges removed. This behaviour undermines the integrity of the server and the wider fediverse.
You don't get banned for words in most boards (all?, I haven't been there in a decade), but you can't post CP (and maybe high level gore, again, I don't recall much) and definitely can't post anything NSFW in blue boards. For me, that's enough, as I can deal with words.
Well no I meant purely about the lack of upvotes and downvotes. Obviously yes, the Fediverse also has more rules than than 4chan too.