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?
Coming back to this thread, I do think some of your comments were inflammatory. If you were to receive a ban, it should have been for trying to bring fights in the comments (but even that is ambiguous at best). I agree that the ban for a comment was too much. An admin shouldn’t be conflating one such action with overall behaviour. As for “repeated bad-faith behaviour”, it is not so far out to ban you I think. People should be responsible for their own actions.
given the guidance i’ve been given from, now, 3 admins, i’m just going to find another instance.
And nothing was learned whatsoever, it seems. Good luck on your instance hunt.
i learned my behavior is no longer within the bounds of the acceptable use policy for db0.