Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All.

Important notes:

  1. I don’t use scripts.
  2. I don’t mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don’t like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on.
  3. Some of the communities I was banned from don’t have any posts in them so I wouldn’t have been able to downvote anything.
  4. Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It’s quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette.
  5. One of my bans reads “Appeal Granted, not a brigading member” but I’m still banned.
  6. I don’t troll.

WTF is going on here?

  • TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish
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    20 days ago

    It’s been a common thing for awhile now, unfortunately. My .ee account was randomly banned from a bunch of comms because of being pro-ai or somesuch ridiculous thing.

      • Ada@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        18 days ago

        It’s not a “common practice on blahaj”. It’s just how lemmy does instance bans.

        I generally don’t community ban people, I tend to instance ban them, because if they’re breaking community rules, but not instance rules, it’s up the community mods to deal with, and if they’re breaking instance rules, they get an instance ban.

        And when you instance ban someone, and choose to remove their content, that’s what it looks like in a modlog. It’s not because I’ve gone and selected a whole bunch of community bans. It’s just how lemmy works

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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        19 days ago

        Blahaj is specifically a safe environment for LGBTQ+ folks who usually face harassment elsewhere, pre-existing homophobia or transphobia is a totally valid reason to be banned pre-emptively in my opinion. The safe environment doesn’t exist if you just let anyone in and then ban them after they cause trouble.

        (Using “you” in general here, not to mean you specifically, OP) if you’re hanging around outside a gay bar talking about how cool your schutzstaffel tattoo is, they aren’t going to let you inside the doors. Same idea here.

        • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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          19 days ago

          .blahaj admins/mods will ban you from every space they control for any reason they don’t like you. They will then just say that person was a bigot to try to avoid drama.

          They do not have consistent moderation policies, and use their small amount of power maliciously.

          They try to curate a group of people who will not question them and will tribalisticly defend the space no matter what.

          • Ada@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            18 days ago

            .blahaj admins/mods will ban you from every space they control

            I don’t moderate any communities outside of blahaj.

          • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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            19 days ago

            And that group of people seem quite pleased with Ada’s strategy, she’s one of the most well loved moderators I’ve ever seen in any community.

            If you don’t like it, that’s fine. The space isn’t for you.

            • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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              19 days ago

              I wouldn’t expect a community of handpicked loyalists to be unhappy with their idol.

              If you don’t like it, that’s fine. The space isn’t for you.

              This is the exact type of passive agressive tribalism she curates. Thanks for being the example i guess.

              I agree I don’t feel safe there, it’s better for me to not contribute to that space and let it go the way of the lgbtq subs on reddit with their idol mods who could do no wrong.