I got banned earlier today with the message “rule 1”, no other information about why, or which comment broke the rule. As far as I can tell it was this one, which just says “We want the bot gone. That’s it. It’s really that simple.”
So I checked the modlog for other bans, and @aniki@lemmings.world was banned today as well, also just for “rule 1”, probably either for the comment saying “a stupid bot writing useless bullshit” or “This is what you call “Not listening to criticism.””, neither of which are an attack on any person.
(Also earlier today @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca was banned with the message “fuck off”, which I’m pretty sure is not a reason to ban someone from a major community, but doesn’t appear to be related to the MBFC bot.)
One more today, @stormesp@lemm.ee was banned, again just “rule 1”, last comment being this one, again not an attack on any person.
So what’s the deal here? I couldn’t find any rules for mods on lemmy.world with a brief poke around, but are we letting mods run major communities like little fiefdoms, banning people for criticism?
Yeah the way these federated systems are handling bans and moderation right now is not very transparent. It’s very easy to have moderator action taken against you and not know why it happened, or to even know that it happened
True. However, I don’t think my comment was that bad, so I also wasn’t even suspecting anything would happen.
It’s like these guys just started using the internet yesterday and everything offends them.
Yeah that’s what I mean. And systemically the way the system was developed encourages such behavior. Which… In a way is I guess what I’ve been trying to say for long time about “letting tankies be who develops your platform has consequences for the systems they develop”
Which probably seems like a non sequitur to you. I’m just making connections between what you’re saying, what’s going in this specific situation, and overall with Lemmy as a construct
Lemmy provides for inadequate moderation tools and the developers of Lemmy don’t see adding additional tools or improvements to existing tools to be a high priority, so there’s not going to be more transparency from anyone running a Lemmy instance or moderating a lemmy community.