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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.

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).

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


(I have not posted there)

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


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'.

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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  • YDI - Why do you care if you're banned in a comm you never post in? The only reason to care is because you want to start drama.

  • YDI - you clearly don't like lemmy.ml so why are you upset they are helping to curate your feed. Some divisionsbyzero mods ban people from their communities when it isn't a right fit for them, even if the user never posted/commented in the moderator's community.

    • It's one thing when some random unknown person does it with their own personal communities. It's a bit different when it's an instance administrator. I think you will at least acknowledge that.

    • Is... is there a rule anywhere that says thats how the comm operates?

      Or are we just all supposed to assume potentially any comm is run by the invisible and artibrary whims and unstated rulesets of mods?

      They're not... I don't think they are upset they cannot participate in a comm they did not participate in. That's not the point.

      The point is the the princple, or lack thereof.

      If you want to have an instance wide rule that actually codifies, in some way, the ability of admins/powermods to ban anyone, from anywhere, for any reason... then that would be shitty, but at least openly and transparently shitty.

      Then at least Dictatorship of the Daveletariat would at least be, you know, explicitly stated policy?

      ... does such a public facing rule or ruleset already exist, and I just missed it?

      • I was just pointing out that there are multiple communities on the threadiverse that do the same thing, including some hosted on this very instance! A community moderator's job is to grow a community and if a person isn't a right fit for the community why would a moderator want to keep them around, especially if they are disruptive to the community

  • CLM.

    It's up to the community mods to curate non-strong rule breaks, as it seems the case of people engaging with it, with only systemic downvoting.

    It seems that there is only one active mod. But, based in what you explain about your relation with davel and the sanction being a community permaban, I think that davel should have let the mod or other admin respond to the rule break.

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