Just recently, I got banned from Lemmy.ml because they thought I was “trolling” using an LLM. Let me clarify to any Lemmy.ml mods reading this that I’m not using an LLM for my comments. I am a human being who actually has autism which is why I type like this.
Sometimes I post so much so fast that I get a “too many requests” error before I get to post the next comment - in these cases, that’s my cue to cool down for a bit, and then post my comments from my “queue” (I leave the comments unposted until I post them) after a certain period of time.
I just submitted a message like this on the Lemmy Matrix chat (through Cinny - pretty good software) as my ban appeal- I then got a reply saying “mods DON’T hang out here - just message them from the sidebar” which I will do after posting this.
I was banned from movies@hexbear.net - a place I didn’t even know existed until I got banned from it.
But hey… tankies gonna tank.
Now according to the person representing Hexbear, you are banned there for comments made off community and off instance.
But if you did that to them, Hexbear would flip out.
https://hexbear.net/post/4334210/5846827
You made a comment there a year ago, and were subsequently site banned and therefore also banned from all comma you had interacted in.
You’re right - surprisingly, I did. And I completely forgot how fond tankie is of pig.
Normally, I avoid tankie instances like the plague - you know, the way tankies avoid socialism!
No, you can’t call them out! That’s not left unity! They ban you but you can’t talk shit!
Banned for calling out obvious copaganda? Huh?
I’m sure there’s a good reason they didn’t want to document the banning of masquenox. Totally a good reason. They just don’t want to.
Which part is not documented?
You personally said that you wish it was documented which comment got them banned in another instance and community. The mod didn’t do that.
They have actually been removed now. After I made my comments.
Fair
No. Banned for “Rule 8”
Saying “great, more copaganda” on a post about a TV show called “FBI: CIA” broke that rule? How? What a joke. They dodged a bullet.
No. The comment would have been removed if it did. The 5 comments removed 23 days ago with reason “rule 8” might have gotten them banned, and/or comments in the flippanarchy and anarchism posts are the reason (although, if that is the reason then I think offending comments should have been removed, so it is documented)
Gotta love how they ban you for no reason but you call out their users and they are innocent.
Edit: oh one comment they liked 1 year ago, wow they totally didn’t do that because you’re on db0 and whine about us.
Edit: notice how they didn’t find it weird how they banned you after nothing for a year. I’m sure that’s in good faith!
I think they were banned for comments on a dbzer0 comm yeah.
I find it deranged that, based on content submitted to communities on other instances, Hexbear targets users not even using the site.
Further, my best understanding is that comments in such communities are being removed on Hexbear, such that they remain on the original and other instances, only appearing as removed from Hexbear. I never knew such a capability was available to administrators of Lemmy instances, and its use strikes me as among the most misguided expressions of censorship.
Yep, they ban users for off site content. When it happens to them they claim fowl play, but when they do it it’s valid. If you moderate their users coming into your community? Oh you better believe they don’t like that either.
And it changed it’s argument from when I last read its comment. Surely that’s not weird.
The repeated revisions to the explanation would not have been necessary, except for a complete lack of transparency and fairness in the actions.
Lack of transparency is the greatest thing for such moderators.
I hope to find my own peace using an instance not federated with Hexbear.
If we ever do have the vote to defedrate Hex, I’ll vote yes and never think of them again as they circlejerk about us.
I thought slrpnk was defeated with Hexbear?
I presume you are talking about me? I have not changed any arguments in this post, was it something from longer ago I don’t remember right now?
On the one hand, I think if someone should be banned, offending comments should be removed so the modlog contains documentation. But on the other, it does lead to what you said, where it only appears removed on hexbear and not on other instances. And yeah, if you didn’t ban someone for things they did outside of the instance, that wouldn’t be a problem. I’ve also seen the opposite, where content removed by mods/admins a dbzer0 comm removed comments and it was then re-instated on hexbear (and only on hexbear)
When seeking out ever more users to ban becomes an end in itself, an objective of transparency no longer carries any value.
I’m not sure it was “seeking out.” masquenox was talking with hexbear users in the comments removed 23 days ago and probably in the two posts I linked.
Hexbear users chose to participate in a discussion, community, and site in which such comments are not unwelcome. The comments observed applicable rules. The actions undertaken are quite markedly unreasonable.
Nah nah, when they do it to anarchists that’s left unity.
When we ban them for ableism and harassment of our users, that’s us being rude to them.
Somehow they’re always in the right and never in the wrong. Especially when the mods who say they remove inflammatory comments about anarchists never do when you report them, even with ableism included.
I did the thought-crime, comrade - I deserve the circular firing squad!
The wall is for those who post in communities outside of their influence. It is a thought crime to express anything Hexbear dislikes! That’s counter revolutionary!
What did you post there?
I’ve never been there.