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submitted 2 months ago by catloaf@lemm.ee to c/support@lemmy.world

I got banned earlier today with the message "rule 1", no other information about why, or which comment broke the rule. As far as I can tell it was this one, which just says "We want the bot gone. That’s it. It’s really that simple."

So I checked the modlog for other bans, and @aniki@lemmings.world was banned today as well, also just for "rule 1", probably either for the comment saying "a stupid bot writing useless bullshit" or "This is what you call "Not listening to criticism."", neither of which are an attack on any person.

(Also earlier today @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca was banned with the message "fuck off", which I'm pretty sure is not a reason to ban someone from a major community, but doesn't appear to be related to the MBFC bot.)

One more today, @stormesp@lemm.ee was banned, again just "rule 1", last comment being this one, again not an attack on any person.

So what's the deal here? I couldn't find any rules for mods on lemmy.world with a brief poke around, but are we letting mods run major communities like little fiefdoms, banning people for criticism?

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 34 points 2 months ago

MindTraveller being banned could very much just be because he's a trolling douche nozzle in general.

[-] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

calling other people pedophiles is not trolling.

such allegations can be life-ruining and should not be done lightly.

[-] goferking0 9 points 2 months ago

He's the only one whose fair to get bounced from all instances.

Others just looked like the mods didn't like talk back.

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[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Not that person again, I lost my entire community because of that troll

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

I remember that, that was a mess

[-] goferking0 2 points 2 months ago

Best part of that was they still immediately turned on Ada after.

So glad Ada did so much to prop up mind in those sagas

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

LinkOpensChest was the best head moderator I could have asked for, it's a shame that Lemmy didn't appreciate him

[-] goferking0 3 points 2 months ago

I both completely understand why you gave it up but hate that it came to that point at all.

Especially on that instance

[-] Yurgenst@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

I thought that it wasnt a smart decision to discuss his mental health problems publicly

[-] Cursed@lemmus.org 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Let's review some of these bans, as called out by ChomskyWasRight@slrpunk.net:

https://lemm.ee/post/40926293/14446156

https://imgur.com/YSoJbgs

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?"

[-] DoctorButts@kbin.melroy.org 21 points 2 months ago

Lol I didn't even know I was banned until I saw this comment

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 months ago

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

[-] DoctorButts@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 2 months ago

True. However, I don't think my comment was that bad, so I also wasn't even suspecting anything would happen.

It's like these guys just started using the internet yesterday and everything offends them.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah that's what I mean. And systemically the way the system was developed encourages such behavior. Which... In a way is I guess what I've been trying to say for long time about "letting tankies be who develops your platform has consequences for the systems they develop"

Which probably seems like a non sequitur to you. I'm just making connections between what you're saying, what's going in this specific situation, and overall with Lemmy as a construct

[-] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] goferking0 4 points 2 months ago

How dare you not take the situation seriously! totally not on the mod team for throwing someone to the wolves

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 15 points 2 months ago

As always: if you're unhappy with !news@lemmy.world , there is !globalnews@lemmy.zip

[-] Five@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Small clarification, @MindTraveller participated in that thread, but was banned while a comment of theirs was removed in a separate post. That's why they're not included in the list.

[-] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

I copied it for you:

Link to the study, because the fuckers never do: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2405334121 Here's what I was looking for:

In all studies, we made certain that the participants and the people in the images were from the same nationality, since cultural familiarity is critical for the face–name matching effect to occur.

Additionally, this survey was conducted by Israelis, and since it says it was translated into English in the paper, I assume it was conducted in Hebrew. They say "socioeconomic cues such as age and ethnicity are experimentally controlled", but I don't see that they explain how. My suspicion is that the results are affected by non-facial cues like clothing, hairstyle, facial hair, and indeed age. For example, if I showed you a picture of an old woman and asked if her name was Doris, Helen, Megan, or Kayley, which do you think it is? If I showed you a picture of a guy with short dark hair, possibly graying, beard stubble, and a collared denim shirt, is his name Edgar, Clarence, Emil, or James? Further, since they did some kind of control over the prompts, I have to assume they presented faces and names the respondents would be familiar with, meaning this does not necessarily hold outside of Israel and Israelis (and I assume mostly people ethnically Israeli Jewish). This reinforces my belief that their methodology is flawed, and while people might look like their names, their faces themselves do not change to fit, rather there's a correlation with other factors like age (i.e. name popularity over time), grooming style, and so on.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

I can't imagine that comment was why I was banned. If it was, then it seems to me like they went digging to find an excuse to ban me.

I wasn't given any reason that comment was removed, either. As I replied to myself there, my only rule I can guess at violating was calling news article authors who don't link or name the study "fuckers", but as I said, I'm happy to remove that if it's unacceptable.

[-] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure why you were banned, I was just annoyed about reading a screenshot of text.

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[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

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."

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

You were banned from .ml for not being a tankie?

[-] goferking0 3 points 2 months ago
[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Delightfully context-free assessment, thanks. I was the one being hurled abuse for giving what I thought was a fairly even handed opinion, so I said I'm not gonna argue in a somewhat sarcastic way.

[-] goferking0 1 points 2 months ago

Cool story. I thought everyone hated that other instances did that and it wouldn't be an issue on world?

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[-] solrize@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bot personhood. Just wait til someone says the wrong thing about cat food.

[-] bannanaente@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

That's quacking funny.

[-] Alice@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 2 months ago
[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

What a shitshow. Admins and moderators are screwing up. This is completely of their own making, by doubling down on a stupid bot nobody wants.

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

The what bot?! Clicks link.. ooohh the spam generator that I blocked a while back. Gotcha. The thing was stupid and the posts unnessicarily long. At lease give a short and sweet and chuck the rest under a spoiler.. jeez.

[-] PlantJam@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

They added spoilers, but they don't work on the boost app or some others.

[-] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The boost app developers really should fix that. Spoilers are working the vast majority of lemmy frontend UIs.

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

Some folks are putting links to MBFC in the posts, which, imo, is better than the bot but just as annoying as the people putting the anti-AI copyright link in their comments.

[-] goferking0 6 points 2 months ago

My favorite part of it is that the bots logic seems to either prioritize the comment part of the post or mbfc links over what the post is linking too.

So instead of getting the op content it just has mbfc at top

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[-] lwadmin@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

We'll review this with the team.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Thanks. Will you respond here?

[-] goferking0 10 points 2 months ago

No will be a 3rd post a month later lol

[-] goferking0 2 points 2 months ago

I don't think they're going to respond

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Reddit 2: Electric Boogaloo

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago
[-] goferking0 1 points 2 months ago

Based on this I'm betting it's gonna soon be against TOS to be critical of the bot

https://lemmy.today/post/16083006

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