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
[https://lemm.ee/post/40926293/14431597], 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 [https://lemmings.world/u/aniki] was banned today as well,
also just for “rule 1”, probably either for the comment saying “a stupid bot
writing useless bullshit” [https://lemm.ee/post/40926293/14430488] or “This is
what you call “Not listening to criticism.””
[https://lemm.ee/post/40926293/14429206], neither of which are an attack on any
person. (Also earlier today @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
[https://lemmy.ca/u/MindTraveller] 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
[https://lemm.ee/u/stormesp] was banned, again just “rule 1”, last comment being
this one [https://lemm.ee/post/40926293/14416892], 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?
Of course there’s some jagoff there who takes the opportunity to complain about .ml and accuse China of genocide.
Oh I feel dumb now. When I read it I completely missed them talking about that being why they were banned. Thought it was any other reason
Worth noting that it was their conjecture, not the stated reason. The actual reason was probably them doing their cawing and not actually engaging with the people challenging their claims
Yeah turns out just them being an ass, nothing else
https://lemmy.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=753738