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https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=12494
The one for bad punctuation from the troll community you can probably get overturned...
All the ones for racism and explicit advocation for violence though, you probably won't be able to get changed.
Quick edit:
Looks like you can comment on lemmy.ml tomorrow, have fun with that I guess
Ouch. Yeah, it’s always the worst users that complain the loudest about moderation
Dude just forgot an oxford comma...
/s
I like blue, hate to eat peanut butter and eliminate all brown people.
I like blue, hate to eat peanut butter, and eliminate all brown people.
It can happen to anyone.
edit: someone more clever can do a better example than this I’m sure
I like eating out my friends and fucking brownies.
Yikes.
You can message the mods if you want, see if they'll reinstate you.
I am a mod, recieved such messages, and have reverted decisions. Often jsut knowing the person on other side is a human person, with some senses, gives you enough confidence to unban
As others said, you would have to message the mods of the community or admins of the instance that banned you. Looking at your modlog, I don't think these can all be overturned since some are too blatant. But I guess you won't know until you try. In the future, only participate in communities you are interested in after having read the rules, otherwise it just seems like your intentions were to troll.
You can view your modlog here:
I wouldn’t have bothered digging through their modlog, but some of those ban reasons are outright hilarious.
“are you victim-blaming a cat?” has me fucking rolling. Mods were clearly done with this person a long time ago.
That collar was slutty and OP is speaking truth to the matriarchy!
I mean, most of the communities that are heavy handed in their moderation like this, are building themselves to becomes extreme echo chambers. Examples include c/world, c/politicalmemes. One of the worst betrayers of this was @flyingsquid who would regularly get into flame wars with people, then proceed to use their mod authority to ban them. And as much as people complain about people like @jordunlund, they are far, far better as a mod in not abusing their mod authority in this manner (although they have, and its been documented).
However, lemmy is small. And the reality is that the "kinds" of conversations that might happen only in one community are actually happening all over the place. The "conversation" happens wherever the conversation might be.
So instead of worrying to much about it getting unbanned from fiefdoms, you might consider starting your own communities, or taking the conversations you would imagine happening in banned communities elsewhere. The fact is, that the attention and people will follow you if you have good things to say.
Is squid alive?
Haven't seen him commenting in a long time?
Him and Jordan did run a train on me last year, it was disgusting modding behavior but oh well. Hope squid is doing right.
Squid dropped off the face of the world after moving to the UK. I think they had been terminally online and may have just cut it out cold turkey because they suddenly found themselves in a new environment and had real shit to do like, getting an actual job instead of commenting several hundred times a day.
getting an actual job instead of commenting several hundred times a day.
Sir, I feel attacked!
But you are indeed correct, there is more life than shit posting ehh
It's just annoying when I go to post in eg: world of Warcraft. And find myself banned when I'm pretty darn sure I never posted there before. Like, I'm not a bad person, I want everyone to enjoy their life and not be bothered by others for who they are. Literally my view on the world but comments get misconstrued in totally unrelated communities and well..here we are.
Guess I'll just do nothing, or look into ban evading which seems like it makes the entire thing of bans pointless.
Yeah. The draconian/ editorial banning selects for bad actions on the part of users.
Just throwing this out there....you can just hop over to another instance and voila! No bans.
(This seems like a flaw in the fediverse model, given how easy it is to instance hop.)
It should be easy, it's anon social media
My concern is how will we handle the threat actors with bots.
Reddit is so busy expelling shit posters and other undesirables but some how threat actors operate with no problem.
So clearly centralized model as Admined currenty don't benefit team pleb.
Yeah I don't really wanna ban evade.
If you're going to stick to the rules in the future I wouldn't worry about it; the main reason ban evasion isn't allowed is to keep out repeat offenders. (And you have no obligation to tell anyone that you were banned on a different account).
I'm a real human, I'm only on Lemmy to help it grow, I have no Malice or hate in my heart. I've been banned from blahaj and beehaw for reasons I don't agree with, but that is just the price of federation.
A group of admins can have a bad day, ban someone, and that's it. There is no meta-federation appeal.
I’ve been banned from blahaj and beehaw for reasons I don’t agree with
Both those instances have very specific rules that they have established for the protection of their communities. If you go in their clubhouse I think its reasonable to abide by their rules, no matter your opinion on them. If you don't like the rules for whatever reason, there's no requirement to go to those instances. There are lots of other instances with are more laissez-faire in their approaches if thats your preferred interactions.
As far as I'm aware I never went to their club houses.
I'm confused then. How did they ban you if you weren't in there? If you were never there, how would you even know you were banned?
You can ban people even if they never go to a community, just by name
I was debugging community federation issues and that's when I discovered I was instance banned on the above two instances.
Both mod logs for the bans indicate one of the instance admins saw something I wrote elsewhere and banned me.
Both mod logs for the bans indicate one of the instance admins saw something I wrote elsewhere and banned me.
Ahh gotcha. They saw your activity on other instances and decided pre-emptively they didn't want you there on their instances. Well, that's their right, and I know both aggressively defend their communities.
You can look yourself up on the modlog to see why you were banned, except in rare cases where they didn't federate the ban.
Wait for the ban to expire. Time passes.
There ton of other places to post. Just block the community and move on.
I got banned from tenforward for saying the ending of Star Trek Discovery didn't make sense. No name calling, no back and forth arguing, just my statement and a reply explaining one point of my previous post. But that reply was to a mod who didn't like my explanation.
I messaged mods and nothing.
I love the public facing modlog.
Did you know that the ban reason is written by the moderator and they could write whatever they want - Including subjective views on the situation or even lies?
I don't think the modlog is supposed to protect the moderators from the bad users but rather users from bad moderators.
Yeah, my favorite bans are the ones from the News communities, with notes like “bad punctuation” or “spreading misinformation” because they posted an MSNBC article.
No way! People can type whatever they want?
I love the modlog because it frequently shows both users and mods can be lying. A user who claims they were banned for something other than racism who has three racist comments that the mods deleted or admins of a certain instance who claim any criticism of China is bigotry.
In this case I was entertained by the modlog entry. 'Spreading lies in other communities' is pretty funny.
I think because I warned some users a couple of times over a year ago, that he thinks I'm a sock puppet of the person/people he has banned. When he got angry about my warning the user, I didn't engage at all. But a year later in that thread about Discovery, I wasn't paying attention and didn't notice that I replied to him.
He seems to have a lot of drama around him.
Is there a Lemmy equivalent to karma court?
There's a Ye Power Tripping Bastards community on dbzero. I did know how to link at one point but forgot so this probably doesn't work: https://lemmy.world/c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Your source for that claim is the Ten Forward mods said so? Those guys lie constantly.
Look at my history. That wasn't the reason I was banned. Over a year ago I warned another user that I saw that mod ban an account for arguing. That post history was there and flying squid warned him to not do that sort of thing in Ten Forward. A year later I made the mistake of replying to a post that he posted to me. The post was about the writing in Discovery.
You can see my last post on tenforward that got banned. He deleted it but of course in Lemmy it's only hidden so you can still view it.
So yeah, not only did he ban me but he lied about the reason.
Here is the proof.
https://lemmy.world/comment/14647300
How about look at your modlog history and maybe, um, not do anymore of those things?
Just a thought. Otherwise, deal with it.