There was an episode of QI where Stephen was playing with a device where you point its directional microphone at someone, and it plays their voice back with a slight delay making it very difficult for them to speak. The guests had to try to read a children’s book aloud while he pointed it at them. None of them except Alan could do it.

I would like to buy one of those devices lol.

Yep, sure do! But only on my own instance in accordance with our polices; communities I moderate elsewhere are modded according to those instances’ rules and TOS.

If someone does nothing but give out downvotes (the upvotes-given to downvotes-given ratio threshold for the automated ban is quite generous), then they’re contributing nothing but negativity and shitting on things for everyone else. If everything here displeases them so much, they can and should go somewhere else.

I stand by (and have reviewed) every automated “Mass downvoting” ban my automod has issued.