Recently I was simultaneously banned from a huge pile of “communities” with a mod commentary “for upvoting homophobic materials”(or “transphonic”, I don’t remember exactly). This kind of bans is the very reason why I quit Reddit. Is it normal here, or is it just some feral mod from Reddit?

P.S. Before you sidestep/offtop/ad-hominem here: no, I have nothing against LGBT folk and absolutely not interested in the theme.

  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev
    12·
    2 days ago

    That most likely wasn’t a moderator, but an administrator. The ability to view votes in communities for mods is not available in the latest release of Lemmy yet. That will come in the next release, 1.0.0.

    Though I can’t see any modlog entries for your account. Did you get instance banned and created a new account here?

      • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev
        15·
        2 days ago

        Okay.

        I assume your previous account was @[email protected], which was instance banned from lemmy.ml. The administrator was davel. You can try and ask him if it bothers you, maybe even appeal your ban. Your new account most likely will be instance banned again if you try and engage in lemmy.ml communities again, given your username is pretty much the same.

        Honestly, we got lots of active alternatives to lemmy.ml communities, as the majority here hates lemmy.ml. Don’t be surprised if you get banned from lemmy.ml again. Check out [email protected]

        • Lembot_0002@lemm.eeOP
          41·
          2 days ago

          account was @[email protected]

          Yes, it was.

          The administrator was davel. You can try and ask him

          Arguing with moderators/administrators is mostly just a humiliating waste of time. I’ll pass :)

              • ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org
                7·
                2 days ago

                I love the imagery of someone coming all politely to the help desk when their post history is flaming garbage.

                “why doesn’t anyone want to host or see my bullshit?! help!”

                • DesolateMood@lemm.ee
                  3·
                  2 days ago

                  Very curious indeed. If we take a look at [email protected] (is this how I link communities?) we can see several posts from the last couple hours alone of people getting banned for sane takes and attempts at discussion. Truly, it’s a wonder that anyone would be upset by this

                  • normal_user [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                    2·
                    2 days ago

                    Imagine going to communities that sometimes literally have rules like “not being a liberal”, in a lemmy server made specifically for people to discuss a specific type of socio-economic structure, and then being mad when you get banned for not following the rules.

                    On some of those communities, your opinions are not welcomed, that’s way people get banned.
                    If the mods were to become softer on bans, every post would have the same infinite discussion about the same thing over and over again. If I wanted to see an endless amount of liberal takes, I would just use one of my backup accounts on other lemmy servers.

                    Lemmygrad and Hexbear have a different scope, they are mostly for people who don’t want to get on internet fights all the time, and in order to preserve the good vibes, unwanted people get banned. No reason to be surprised about it.