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Account banned on lemmy.ml/c/communism for 'rule 4' - in a community with no rules, that I've never posted in. (quokk.au)
submitted 2 days ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards

https://lemmy.ml/u/davel

2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

Community Ban

3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).

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4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).

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(I have not posted there)

Likewise the community has no rules listed, so I'm not sure how I've broken rule 4

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Davel is probably going to try to claim me downvoting a post or comment of his that popped up on my feed or something as me breaking the entire instances rule 4 (no spam?) - which is why I need to be banned only from one community I don't engage in.

Lemmy.ml admin Davel has been rage downvoting my posts a lot lately, even going so far as to downvote me telling real legitimate antisemites to 'fuck off'.

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Even CowBee had the decency to admit they were in the wrong and change their ragevote to an upvote.

Davel however seems to especially thinskinned even for the typical .ML'er and would rather double down and engage in poorly disguised retaliation bans for criticisms of a political ideology.

This thought terminating behaviour on display by one of the admins of such a reputable and outstanding instance as Lemmy.ml was not at all warranted and I hereby call on the leadership at lemmy.ML to unban me so that I may continue to not post in their community.

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[-] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

That is typical .ml nonesense they a a bunch of jokers

[-] BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Please don't let Lemmy turn into reddit where loser mods make this a site about pushing their personal opinions.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 52 points 2 days ago

Getting banned from communities you don't even post on, Lemmy really is a full featured Reddit replacement.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 days ago

Aha, but does Reddit have a YPTB to call out the PTBs? I thought not! Checkmate!

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

... Spez's inbox?

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[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

PTB, it was probably because you keep triggering them in /c/leftymemes. Also lol at the hexbears in here calling YDI because their feelings are constantly being hurt.

EDIT: Omegalul at all the salt below.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

do they not realize, they are more like conservatives than they like to admit.

[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 7 points 2 days ago

The downside to me explicitly choosing an instance that defeds hex and grad is that I don't get to see their impotent rage.

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[-] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago

Lemmy.ml admin Davel has been rage downvoting my posts a lot lately

the lack of effective blocking is what really kills Lemmy….
it’s like it was custom made for harassment and brigading.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

If I block someone - I never see their content, posts, or messages to me again.

What aspect is ineffective?

[-] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago

In most cases, you’d want a block to go both directions. Imagine you’re being stalked by a user. In its current implementation, blocking that user won’t stop the stalking, because they can still see and interact with your posts. You simply won’t be able to see their interactions. If they comment on your post, you won’t see it because you have them blocked. But your block does not prevent them from seeing, voting on, or commenting on your post.

Essentially, lemmy’s current block function works more like a mute. When you “block” someone, you’re just muting their interactions so you don’t see the harassment. But it doesn’t actually stop them from harassing you. It just ensures you can’t see it to stay on top of it. To use the earlier stalker example, what if they’re amping up their stalking and have started doxxing you, and you’re completely oblivious because you’re not seeing their responses to your posts?

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

most other fediverse softwares have blocks run two ways to reduce risk of harm via stalking, brigading, and dogpiling. there's a difference between muting someone and blocking them on things like mastodon. on lemmy blocks are equivalent to mutes on mastodon

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I can see how that would be very helpful to some people. Thanks for explaining

[-] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Lemmy.ml admin Davel has been rage downvoting my posts a lot lately

this someone can still follow you and downvote everything you post, and comment on everything you post, and all you’ve done is make it so you can’t tell.

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[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

Adding features to stop that is actually counter revolutionary, if you don't like spam you're actually a liberal.

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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

YDI.

You've equated communists to Nazis and said "tankie fucks deserve to get their heads bashed in." Extremely aggressive 100% of the time whenever you encounter a Marxist of any sort. With that context, it isn't unreasonable to ban you when it would already be a clear misfit for you to participate in a Marxist community, be it via voting or otherwise. It wasn't an instance ban, you're still free to comment on the socialist comm, anarchist comm, etc as far as I can tell, just not on the communist comm.

As for the bit on antisemitism, the comment was removed and all you said was "fuck off," so myself and presumably others made rash assumptions. This isn't ill-founded though, you had posted Nazi apologia for Nazi collaborators released from prison that went on to lynch Jewish people and communists on the very same thread simply because they opposed the soviets. This is well and truly beyond the standard left-punching the post was for. I feel that this context is necessary because your post directly calls my reputation into question in the post body.

[-] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 days ago

saying that you’re wrong and your grokepedia sources are bullshit is not nazi apologia.
people can disagree with the factual content of what you’re saying without being a nazi.
stupid tankie trolls.

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

No they didn't make Conservapedia, they made the ~~anti-woke~~ anti-liberal Tankiepedia! Clearly it's different.

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[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 days ago

Amazing display of left unity today by Hexbear.

We can't call out bad faith actions and active spamming to tire people out, but they will gladly jump down your throat.

They can ban people for asking too many questions but if we ban them we aren't leftists.

You call them out it's a tirade and a rant. You give them links to show they have a bias, you're the bad guy.

Rules for thee not for me is what Stalin wanted after all, it's just praxis for them. Can't wait to see how many are angry at us for not obeying their rules on another instance.

Blah blah "but muh all" blah blah "post hog" blah blah "you just hate us for causing a mess and cleaning it up". Hope you guys have jobs and interact with real humans and stop LARPing as the revolutionaries Stalin would have shot when they stopped being useful.

Amazing how to some we're the Tankies when we didn't say Stalin wasnt Christ reborn and we get spammed with it. I come back from work and I have more messages than when I upset someone with a bot farm.

Left unity my ass. We can't criticize you but you'll kill Makhno and say you did us a favor. Can't wait until Hexbear circlejerks about this and swear this time for real they'll defed from us.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 31 points 2 days ago

such a reputable and outstanding instance as Lemmy.ml

unban me so that I may continue to not post in their community

Wheeze... More! Do you do standup?

[-] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is the tankie malding I live for. 😂

Cue another post in c/Slop about this time they’re 💯 gonna defed from us for sure

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

i've been actively avoiding hexbear but i had nothing to do but laugh looking at their slop community misrepresenting an anarchist saying that anarchists don't just engage in critical class analysis but in other forms of hierarchical exploitation. like. the context was so completely obviously saying that anarchists engage in multiple forms of anti-authoritarianism, and class is one of them

i guess marxist can only be marxist? they can't ever apply critical analysis to anything else?

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

how can they be anarchist when hexbear is a ultra-left leaning community.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 16 hours ago

i don't know what you mean. anarchism is an extremely leftist position and the poster in question wasn't on hexbear. the post that made it onto hexbear was a marxist-leninist effectively ignoring what the anarchist was saying critical analysis means to anarchists.

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[-] oculi@anarchist.nexus 31 points 2 days ago

Look ma i'm in the picture!

I think by rule 4 they meant lemmy.ml's one, i.e. 'No Ads / Spamming.'? But it's very odd they'd ban you in that one specific community.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 days ago

External users downvoting is considered "vote spamming". You can check my moderation history, they used that justification for me. I just downvote low-value content as I see it.

[-] Alaik@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 days ago

That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Are you serious? They consider downvotes originating from outside the instance, spam?

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

They'll find any excuse to ban you if you say something the admins don't like.

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