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.
Yeah. I suspect that there are people who make a habit of targeting particular “anti-tankie” or anti-troll users who are in a role of authority, and bullying them consistently to try to drive them away or at least ruin their reputation (with accusing them of being transphobic Zionists being for some reason the absolutely consistent go-to accusation). I think PugJesus is just the latest target.
It’s a little hard to say, because banning someone for downvotes actually is kind of bullshit, but I suspect that the personal innuendos about PugJesus in this thread and their popularity in the voting mean that the overall bullying effort is working pretty well.
Sure, those people probably exist, but also “anti-tankie” is an extremely common position so you’d expect there to be more “victims” if that is what they are being targeted for. It’s far more likely that PJ is instead just an insufferable person who makes bad posts and comments, and therefore there are many people that don’t like them. PJ hasn’t even been accused of transphobia or zionism in this thread, so I think your theory is pretty widely off mark.
Or, perhaps, they are just not liked for reasons other than politics.