Just recently, I got banned from Lemmy.ml because they thought I was “trolling” using an LLM. Let me clarify to any Lemmy.ml mods reading this that I’m not using an LLM for my comments. I am a human being who actually has autism which is why I type like this.
Sometimes I post so much so fast that I get a “too many requests” error before I get to post the next comment - in these cases, that’s my cue to cool down for a bit, and then post my comments from my “queue” (I leave the comments unposted until I post them) after a certain period of time.
I just submitted a message like this on the Lemmy Matrix chat (through Cinny - pretty good software) as my ban appeal- I then got a reply saying “mods DON’T hang out here - just message them from the sidebar” which I will do after posting this.
I think they were banned for comments on a dbzer0 comm yeah.
I find it deranged that, based on content submitted to communities on other instances, Hexbear targets users not even using the site.
Further, my best understanding is that comments in such communities are being removed on Hexbear, such that they remain on the original and other instances, only appearing as removed from Hexbear. I never knew such a capability was available to administrators of Lemmy instances, and its use strikes me as among the most misguided expressions of censorship.
Yep, they ban users for off site content. When it happens to them they claim fowl play, but when they do it it’s valid. If you moderate their users coming into your community? Oh you better believe they don’t like that either.
And it changed it’s argument from when I last read its comment. Surely that’s not weird.
The repeated revisions to the explanation would not have been necessary, except for a complete lack of transparency and fairness in the actions.
Lack of transparency is the greatest thing for such moderators.
I hope to find my own peace using an instance not federated with Hexbear.
If we ever do have the vote to defedrate Hex, I’ll vote yes and never think of them again as they circlejerk about us.
I thought slrpnk was defeated with Hexbear?
I hope to find peace as I continue using SLRPNK, as it is an instance not federated with Hexbear.
If I didn’t like the admin team here, I’d consider swapping to slrpnk solely for that. I know my admins won’t hate me if I did swap, but I really enjoy the level headed nature of them.
I presume you are talking about me? I have not changed any arguments in this post, was it something from longer ago I don’t remember right now?
On the one hand, I think if someone should be banned, offending comments should be removed so the modlog contains documentation. But on the other, it does lead to what you said, where it only appears removed on hexbear and not on other instances. And yeah, if you didn’t ban someone for things they did outside of the instance, that wouldn’t be a problem. I’ve also seen the opposite, where content removed by mods/admins a dbzer0 comm removed comments and it was then re-instated on hexbear (and only on hexbear)
When seeking out ever more users to ban becomes an end in itself, an objective of transparency no longer carries any value.
I’m not sure it was “seeking out.” masquenox was talking with hexbear users in the comments removed 23 days ago and probably in the two posts I linked.
Hexbear users chose to participate in a discussion, community, and site in which such comments are not unwelcome. The comments observed applicable rules. The actions undertaken are quite markedly unreasonable.
Nah nah, when they do it to anarchists that’s left unity.
When we ban them for ableism and harassment of our users, that’s us being rude to them.
Somehow they’re always in the right and never in the wrong. Especially when the mods who say they remove inflammatory comments about anarchists never do when you report them, even with ableism included.