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.
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.