We'll review this with the team.
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Thanks. Will you respond here?
No will be a 3rd post a month later lol
Reddit 2: Electric Boogaloo
A .ml mod recently banned me from the entire instance after I complained about being called a "fucking idiot". I suspect they didn't like me saying China doesn't have a clean record on genocide.
The fediverse is great because it's not corporate, but you still have to deal with folks who put the hell into "Hell is other people."
You are, in fact, a fucking idiot
What does their sexual partner have to do with this?
Worst attempted bangers :(
Sure, but you didn't need to make an alt to say that to me.
Cool story. I thought everyone hated that other instances did that and it wouldn't be an issue on world?
It's not a game changer for me, but I like to cruise All and I do run across their posts wishing I could chime in. Usually just jokes or middlebrow irony, but it passes the time.
Finally looked, they banned you for calling the entire instance
fucking stupid
northing to do with genocide
Let's review some of these bans, as called out by ChomskyWasRight@slrpunk.net:
https://lemm.ee/post/40926293/14446156
From the top:
LagrangePoint@lemmy.world https://imgur.com/4XsXuOC
Quote: "LW admin/mod team seem to have this overbearing and weird belief that they need to tell everyone else what to think and how to think it. How about... you all just fuck off and don't?
Result: Permaban
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aniki@lemmings.world https://imgur.com/LIye27F
Quote: "All rights are won through violence, child. Bans on here means less than the nothing platitudes you utter"
Result: 15 day ban
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catloaf@lemm.ee https://imgur.com/ONGdgNo
Quote: [the quote is really long, pls dont make me type it and just look at the link lol]
Result: 15 day ban
Note: the comment precedes the ban by 26 days, but catloaf's recent comment history contains opinions critical of the LW News mod team
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DoctorButts@kbin.melroy.org https://imgur.com/q2kktNQ
Quote: "Damn what a shame, guy almost stopped being a moderator on an internet forum, would have been a grave tragedy"
Result: Permaban
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stormesp@lemm.ee https://imgur.com/ZCRtuJe
Stormesp's profile at lemm.ee: https://lemm.ee/u/stormesp
Quote: [there were no comments removed in the modlog, but stormesp's recent comment history contains opinions critical of the LW News mod team, read them yourself]
Result: 15 day ban
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MindTraveller@lemmy.ca https://imgur.com/YwIMSOq
Quotes: [multiple quotes, there are a lot, check out the link]
Result: 15 day ban
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Summary
Most interestingly here is that the two users who got permabanned didn't use slurs and didn't call for violence, they merely insulted the moderator team. I guess in the LW News mod team's eyes, that's a horrible, terrible, awful, unforgivable offense, so.......... PERMABAN.
Aniki literally is saying "words are useless, let's resort to violence" but that's a 15 day ban only, OK, makes sense, right????????
Catloaf and Stormesp were actively leaving comments sparring with the moderator team in that thread. To be honest, none of what I'm seeing in these comment seems worthy of a ban. Unless of course, you're a LW mod and you go "this guy is disagreeing with me, therefore they deserve a ban."
Edit: I forgot to write about MindTraveller since that guy was a last minute addition. But look at those aggressive comments, guy deserves a ban for sure.
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Conclusion
Not a good look. Does LW want to grow into a good Reddit alternative or do they just want to turn it into Reddit for themselves only?
LW can at least come clean about this and say "yes, the rest of you can get fucked" or maybe they will have a moment of realization at some point "oh my god, are we the baddies?"
Lol I didn't even know I was banned until I saw this comment
Yeah the way these federated systems are handling bans and moderation right now is not very transparent. It's very easy to have moderator action taken against you and not know why it happened, or to even know that it happened
Lemmy provides for inadequate moderation tools and the developers of Lemmy don't see adding additional tools or improvements to existing tools to be a high priority, so there's not going to be more transparency from anyone running a Lemmy instance or moderating a lemmy community.
MindTraveller being banned could very much just be because he's a trolling douche nozzle in general.
He's the only one whose fair to get bounced from all instances.
Others just looked like the mods didn't like talk back.
The level of vitriol that the banned users have been spewing seems like harassment of the mods.
Not that person again, I lost my entire community because of that troll
I asked you directly what link_opens_chest.wav did to be removed and you replied "It's the strict rules tbh". Then the entire community spent a week telling you the changes to the rules weren't wanted before you back tracked. The problems on libertyhub were your doing not a trolls, and it really seemed like your goal was to take over the community and change it to your liking.
calling other people pedophiles is not trolling.
such allegations can be life-ruining and should not be done lightly.