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.)
9 Jun 2026 20:40
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.
9 Jun 2026 21:00
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?
9 Jun 2026 21:08
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.
9 Jun 2026 21:11
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.
9 Jun 2026 21:56
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.
9 Jun 2026 21:58
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