If there’s a person (or bot) that claims to be unbiased but spams every political post with a biased assertion of the OP’s partiality/impartiality with a huge post that is low effort copy+paste/script-generated, the correct response is to ban that person (or bot).

This is nothing new to online communities, but this instance seems to be struggling with this.

You are entitled to delete your Lemmy app of choice and return to the corporate-approved Reddit™ content-consumption experience.

Actually I have heard of some insane mods

User loobkoob@kbin did so in their comment. You can simply not use pronouns. Your hypothetical doesn’t include a “just don’t say the thing” option.

For me, downvoting posts means either “this post is not appropriate for this community” or “this post is not appropriate for the ‘all’ view.”

If the community is not relevant to my interests, I just block the community.

Edit: actually, after reading your post, I amend my earlier list. I also downvote posts if the author is an arrogant cock nugget.

You don’t know whether someone has a good reason for downvoting or not, and every time you think you do know, you’re making yourself a little dumber.

The point of the second half is to try to dissuade others from simply relying on initialisms. It causes introspection. Maybe accusing others of being angry is uncalled for? It’s possible to want to prompt introspection in others without being angry.

Not always the best solution, but sometimes appropriate. Connect for Lemmy lets you hide a post, block a user, block a community or block an instance.

Connect for Lemmy has this, and doesn’t charge money like Sync

KEEN replaces your worn out shoes for free, or so I’ve heard. They aren’t my favorite for comfort or style, so I haven’t taken them up on it.

My browser thinks that’s a user link. Is the formatting for a community link different?