This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.
Some acronyms you might see.
Relevant comms
This guy is clearly snooping the downvoters as an instance admin and retaliating against them. Wouldn't even have noticed if I didn't stumble onto the modlog in Voyager by accident.
I might be of course wrong in my assumption. But I don't remember ever interacting with anyone from that instance, I'm not subscribed to those communities and the dates correlate.
I can understand wanting to get rid of bad actors by any metric, including downvoting/upvoting patterns, which can sometimes be the only metric to identify trolls and bad actors who otherwise keep their mouths shut. Though here it seems a bit excessive.
The biggest issue is that downvotes or upvotes don't say anything about the intent, so while I can accept someone using them as a metric to find a troll, you need to find other information or a pattern of abuse, such as someone downvoting everything in the community, downvoting with multiple accounts (persistently, sometimes mistakes happen), or repeated voting of specific topics.
It's a lot more work to find out if someone is actually bad-faith downvoting and in most cases it's just not worth it, and will come with a lot of false positives. Best to only do it for people repeatedly downvoting a user, or mass downvoting a whole community.