I used to see this on Reddit, I’m disappointed this behaviour is also on Lemmy.
Users collecting mod status on multiple communities, and then using that power to mass-ban a single user from a bunch of communities.
Modlog show how incredibly trigger happy some mods can be. Minor transgressions, deserving to have their comment removed at least, but then banned from unrelated communities as a consequence. This will only get worse as users become supermods.
Edit: It seems this is how an instance ban is reported, by banning from any communities the user has participated in. Then perhaps it isn’t all as bad as it seems.
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This user was banned for being anti-Semitic and telling people to kill themselves. Also, when you’re instance-banned, you automatically get banned from the communities you were active in. The mod didn’t manually ban them from all those communities. When you attempt to post to a community in an instance you’re banned from that you weren’t active in, the instance-ban means the post won’t federate.
That person was banned for anti-semitism and various other trolling: https://lemmy.ml/modlog?userId=17758269 . And banning from each community is the current hack for how to also do instance bans(fixed already in main)
Creating public modlogs was almost pointless, because people just use screenshots instead of actual modlog links.
The account you linked is from lazysoci.al but the one in the screenshot is from lemmy.world. It looks like it’s this one https://lemmy.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=3194530
Ah. That person is telling people to kill themselves, so that ban also makes sense.
I just learnt this in another comment. I didn’t realise instance bans were reported like this.
Re: screenshots – this community rules require censored screenshots.
No probs. It’s always better to link the actual modlog, otherwise you have no idea why someone was banned.
Could it be an instance ban?
This. This is how an instance ban shows up, as a series of bans on any community they were active in on that instance.
I didn’t even need to read the instance name. Only “Rule 1, 2” was enough to know this was from .ml. The admins there behave pretty much the same as Reddit admins; always fucking enforcing hidden rules. The link Blaze posted should show well enough which is the hidden rule in question.
Note that this is clearly done by the admins, not by some power-tripping mod. For example, one of the communities listed there (SNOOcalypse) has been locked down for a whole year, and the only mod there is my old account. (In fact one of the reasons I locked that comm down was because I wasn’t willing to play along this shit.)
It’s simple. Don’t criticize China in any community hosted on Lemmy.ml 😂
It’s lemmy.ml…
Their mods don’t do much, it was likely an admin banning them from everywhere.
It’s incredibly common with .ml, and why people are better off blocking the whole instance
A lot of the small ones are like that. And a lot even use a bot to ban if someone isn’t subscribed. So it’s possible all you did was down ote a brain rot meme and now you’re banned from all those places.
