Thats not a bad faith argument anymore than a liberal posting something bad about trump because it fits their narrative. Like many leftists I hate democrats more than Republicans because Republicans don't pretend to care. Republicans will tell you to your face who they are, democrats will lie to your face about inclusion and acceptance and proceed to legislate like their conservative counterparts.
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Welcome to Reddit 2.0 I guess.
I personally HATE having 10 articles all about the same thing posted and reposted. Then reposted again for the next week as if they're new. The anti-Big-D-Democratic posts of this user were not reposted. They brought new stories from places I wouldn't visit and read or have in my biased news feed. Everyone's "news feed" is biased, it learns what you engage with even if you try to be unbiased.
Banning people who post differing opinions is shitty. It becomes an echo chamber. Today it is Trump and Biden. But .
As far as I know, lemmy does not “learn what you engage with”.
Saying “everything is biased” is not a good justification for encouraging intentional bad-faith behavior.
I think I agree more with the spam angle than the "only bad news" angle. As others have said it's fine to have a viewpoint and mainly share articles in line with that viewpoint. However doing it many times per day, every day, when the number of posts here is limited anyway, does impact the community.
In any case, the main thing is to be consistent and ideally make whatever the rule is very clear. And I would say this should be turned into an explicit rule or explanation under an existing rule.
Personally I just read what I want to, and if it seems bad faith, downvote and move on.
Is there anything preventing a banned user from making another account though?
This always felt like an empty threat even on a centralised platform like reddit but on the fediverse it seems like it would be unenforceable?
Not really, but generally the ones who do that, frankly, aren't very smart about it and get nuked for ban evasion pretty quickly.
The mods and admins have a back channel chat and we compare notes a lot. "Oh, god, this guy again..."
Do you think this ban is fairly nonpartisan?
Would you also ban a user that only posts negative Trump stories and admits to that?
I agree r2o was getting to be a bit much, and the temp ban seems appropriate, but I'd want to see a policy like this applied fairly and evenly.
If someone pumped the gas and was posting dozens and dozens of pro or anti Trump stuff? Yeah, I think I'd do the same.
We did have quite a few pro-Trump posts as he was winning primaries, which made logical sense. I'm also planning on megathreads in July and August for both conventions.
Has anyone been banned for only posting good stuff about Biden?
Or banned for posting only negative stuff about trump? I don't really post, but I'm definitely "guilty" of always being critical of trump, and most Republicans in general in my comments.
That's the thing: you're not spamming it.
Hard to tell when the front page was flooded with negative posts from one user.
If we start seeing a bunch of "Biden is the best President we've ever had!!!1!!" posts from the same user over and over, obviously I'd consider it. :)
This is the exact point. He was banned for spamming the same thing over and over. It was boring!
After I blocked him myself I realized he contributed nothing but drama. Go on Twitter if you want to create drama