Some of the mods on .ml are Really sensitive.

I made a joke about how Russia was a bit behind in video game tech in the 90's and got banned, lol.

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Modlog.
You were banned for rule 2, which is no political content. If we want to be charitable, it's possible that the mod considers talking about Russia's lack of technological progress to be a political statement. I can't imagine why somebody would be upset about that unless they had a hard-on for Russia, but surely that's not the case when the moderator also decided to extend the ban to such politically neutral communities as "Anarchist memes", "Socialism", and "The Right Can't Meme."
What's more insane is that you were banned from 20 communities in total, many of which aren't even related. Fucking power mods...
- .. somebody would be upset about that unless they had a hard-on for Russia
  He clearly does.
  Want to know the fun bit?
  Davel refuses to answer whether he's pro-Russian. Which he clearly is. He literally claims to be an American. An American who somehow happens to favour Russia, say things like "reality has a well known Russian propaganda bias" and "Ukraine needs to be denazified by Russia" and "Uighur genocide isn't happening" (that last one is kinda 2019, but still.)
  People like him are not an insignificant part of why Trump won.
  
  Going through some of the communities you were banned in, Davel isn't a mod in any of them that I checked. In fact, a lot of them only have a single mod, and it's not even the same user.
  I think you actually pissed off one of the .ml admins, and I'm willing to bet it's the same one that's both a self-proclaimed tankie, core Lemmy dev, and the only moderator of the socialism community on their instance. You were even instance banned for 7 days:
  Banned Dasus@lemmy.world
  reason: Rule 2
  expires: in 7 days
  Notice the lack of community name in that entry. I thought the .ml admins learned something from the backlash last time they abused their position and banned people from communities they don't moderate, but I can't say I'm surprised that they're going back to their old tricks.
- Low opportunity power tripping is so common in russia, it has it's own term "синдром вахтёра" (watchman's syndrome). The .ml people go extra mile when cosplaying the mother russia.
  
  This particular watchman pretends to be an American, by the way, but yeah, that's exactly what he's doing. Thanks for the term!
  
  Ah sounds analogous to the concept of a power hungry rent-a-cop

How thin skinned. Heck, I was buying 2600 stuff in 1996. It was retro by that point.
- Right?
  Dude really got pissed. I remember getting some pirated games from Estonia in the 90's and Estonia was halfway further to the West than Russia.
  In 1996, the N64 was released. Unfortunately it took until the spring of 1997 for my dad to get us one. I fucking loved him for that. The most amazing suprise in my life. It wasn't a christmas, a birthday, nothing. Dad just got us a N64 as a surprise. Fucking 3D gaming, flying around in Star Wars ships. It was AMAZING. RIP Dad

Next time replace the word Russia with Alabama. See if you still get banned.
- I can see you have a point. I just don't what the point is you're trying to make?
  
  They are still living 40 years behind everyone.

Insanely fragile if you say anything not in line with their propaganda machine
desalines especially so
- Or generally just if you point out they are part of a propaganda machine. Or that one even exists in the first place.

Aw, man. Did you go and insult the Dendy?
- That is exactly what I did. I knew it reminded me of something, I just couldn't remember what. Thank you. Haha.

Now the question is, what mod? So I can block them edit: oh it's in the post
- It wasn't a mod that did it. Mods can't make site-wide user bans.
  
  Wait, then who did?

You should also crosspost this on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com (include a screenshot of your modlog entries also) it's a good community to discuss and share moderator or in this case admin power tripping. I'd say it's probably one of the best ways to call attention to this type of crap.
- I just smoked wake&bake and now I've read this, I hope I don't forget to after I wake up from my second sleep. I'll actually de-read the notification, I think.
  
  Just replying again to remind you to check up on it when you're sober. I think it would be beneficial for you and other people in that situation to post about your experience with .ml in the community I mentioned since not many people call out the power tripping by .ml admins despite it happening quite often.

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