before i made an account, i reached out to the chief admin of lemmy.dbzer0.com

i was recently banned during a discussion on the validity of a claim regarding the consensus about the safety of a vegan diet:

and, if you bother to go find that discussion, you’ll find that, in fact, my interlocutor did become incivil. i did report that. and somehow, my discussion and the subsequent report were the basis of a ban.

it was less than 2 hours. it’s almost not worth discussing.

but given my pre-application discussion, i felt strongly that my conduct is within the bounds of the acceptable use of the instance. so if my conduct is not within the acceptable use, that means i basically cant use my account(s) as i planned and under the terms which i agreed.

db0 has said he doesn’t want to be the benevolent dictator for life, and has specifically both recused himself from ruling on my conduct and encouraged me to post here and in [email protected] (though i’m still holding off on that for now).

so, did i deserve it? power tripping bastard? what do you think?

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    4 days ago

    I never asked for extra leeway. I never thought I had any kind of agreement with db0 other than a shared understanding of the acceptable use policy. now you have some say in the interpretation of that policy, and you disagree with what was previously understood.

    I know we can’t all agree about everything, but there needs to be some clarity about what is acceptable, and what isn’t.

    and it’s a two way street. capricious moderation isn’t acceptable to me. if that’s what I can expect, then I will have to go somewhere else.