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.
Wasn’t that option removed eventually due to it breaking social aspects of federation?
Yes, instead it was replaced with an option to have votes federate or not.
Yes, and some of us mods had automated banning proxy voting a little before the feature retirement