Doesn’t help that admins have at times decided to encourage alt’ing to bypass bans “because if they are good faith participants, they won’t get banned again”. The problem is the whole federated system means accommodating different standards.
As a proponent of any decent implementation of the idea, I’d just like to point out that if we could select our own moderators for communities, a lot of these alts and sock puppets would probably have been handled by the people I would have aggregated to the list instead of just waiting for the time zone or availability to roll over to the official ones. A lot of these are blatantly obvious.
I don’t think any amount of democratic community moderation voting (this case here is more to do with an absent instance owner) would prevent the phenomenon of idle, disinterested or otherwise too-busy moderators letting their communities be overrun.
They know who they are, and it depends on what’s involved. Even if the ban was clearly in bad faith, the tune changes when it’s someone co-mingling in their circles, and I’ll leave it at that since it would involve old Matrix conversations. If you haven’t, that’s good, although it’s what ban happy behavior encourages. The only people whom bans like those works against are good faith participants.
I noticed you have an 11 day old account… I take it you gathered enough bans to warrant a new account?
Gmail lets you put a . or a + <word> in your email address so you can still receive it.
So if your email is bob@gmail.com, you can register a new account as bob+alt1@gmail.com and then bob+alt2@gmail.com… Since + is a valid email address character most places accept it and you can make infinite accounts with one email…
Work with some fr33 tr14ls but don’t tell everyone
You really aren’t making a good case for yourself if you are trying to promote ban evasion. Were your critics right, and is your gig up now?
And no, this is just an alt, after experiencing some rather concerning double standards of enforcement in another instance as well as an harsh degree of escalation from said enforcement, this account represents a different approach on a platform that handles some things better than Lemmy’s and avoids any presence on the aforementioned instance.
Lemmy has a real problem with alts and sock puppeting
Doesn’t help that admins have at times decided to encourage alt’ing to bypass bans “because if they are good faith participants, they won’t get banned again”. The problem is the whole federated system means accommodating different standards.
As a proponent of any decent implementation of the idea, I’d just like to point out that if we could select our own moderators for communities, a lot of these alts and sock puppets would probably have been handled by the people I would have aggregated to the list instead of just waiting for the time zone or availability to roll over to the official ones. A lot of these are blatantly obvious.
I don’t think any amount of democratic community moderation voting (this case here is more to do with an absent instance owner) would prevent the phenomenon of idle, disinterested or otherwise too-busy moderators letting their communities be overrun.
Admin of what instance said that? I’ve only ever seen the opposite opinion.
They know who they are, and it depends on what’s involved. Even if the ban was clearly in bad faith, the tune changes when it’s someone co-mingling in their circles, and I’ll leave it at that since it would involve old Matrix conversations. If you haven’t, that’s good, although it’s what ban happy behavior encourages. The only people whom bans like those works against are good faith participants.
I noticed you have an 11 day old account… I take it you gathered enough bans to warrant a new account?
Gmail lets you put a . or a + <word> in your email address so you can still receive it.
So if your email is bob@gmail.com, you can register a new account as bob+alt1@gmail.com and then bob+alt2@gmail.com… Since + is a valid email address character most places accept it and you can make infinite accounts with one email…
Work with some fr33 tr14ls but don’t tell everyone
You really aren’t making a good case for yourself if you are trying to promote ban evasion. Were your critics right, and is your gig up now?
And no, this is just an alt, after experiencing some rather concerning double standards of enforcement in another instance as well as an harsh degree of escalation from said enforcement, this account represents a different approach on a platform that handles some things better than Lemmy’s and avoids any presence on the aforementioned instance.
I’m actually trying to promote more proactive anti-ban evasion