Context: PugJesus often spams low quality posts across the dozen or so communities they mod, apparently downvoting low effort spam on my frontpage is trolling. The only other action in the modlog is a different ban for 74 years for “Mass downvoting innocuous content,” so it definitely seems they are just banning people that dislike their spam. Glad we’re not missing out on the reddit mod experience here.
But if someone did try to run a Pro-Tesla community (whether limiting it to pre-2025 purchases or not), then I could well understand them banning every single user who did absolutely nothing whatsoever other than downvote. Brigading is against the TOS of many Lemmy instances iirc. As well as many communities too - e.g. it’s #4 in this one.
And you could debate the morality of a Pro-Tesla community, but apparently this OP is talking about merely historical memes, at which point abusing the posters to that community (or possibly only PugJesus himself, that point was never clarified since zero actual evidence was presented beyond the admission that OP did in fact take part in personally brigading against many posts in that community).
Real “rebel without a cause” vibes here - someone downvoting purely to be a dick about it, so much so that they don’t even realize that that is what they are doing, and all the more so continuing to double down despite most everyone telling them that fact.
(I personally would simply block any Pro-Tesla community and move on with my life)
Unpopular stuff gets voted to oblivion just with random drive-bys. It looks like brigading but doesn’t need to be organised
OP admitted it was organized, as in targeted - that’s the entire point of this post.
Random is fine, but when it becomes organized… well, that’s when mods intervene to put a stop to it (or at least if they do, nobody questions that - except OP, apparently).