Is that figurative or is there actually some mechanic in this site called self-punishment?
They get flagged with a big pink "Suspicious" flair, all of their votes, up and down, get negated, and they essentially get knocked down to level -1 until they learn to behave.
Learn... to... behave... Welp, that verbiage is a bit of a red flag.
It's my shitty wording for "Stop being a downvoting idiot". An account can recover from the flag, they just need to stop trying to brigade. The algorithm hasn't been shared, but a few people have pulled themselves out of it.
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