I donāt troll. At all. What I do is post various comments encouraging a community to not get angry as hell about a change but to make the best out of it. Thatās what happened when 196 decided to port over from blahaj.zone to lemmy.world. I made a bunch of fairly long comments that were talking about how people shouldnāt be angry and just leaving toxic comments but fueling a better community, whether that be here or elsewhere. Comments went fairly well and all was fine and left up for a while but a couple of days after being posted they were removed along with everything else that I had posted to that community. The mods list the reason in the modlog for my permanent ban as ātrollingā. There are many things I do, but trolling isnāt one of them. Especially when the comment sections are left in a state here showing that I wasnāt trolling.
I went through everything that I did with that community and cannot find a singular thing with the exception of a memory.
I had posted a meme a couple of weeks ago. I donāt remember exactly what it was but I remember a moderator saying on it an hour or two after posting that it should be marked as NSFW. I disagreed with this assessment. I left a comment in response saying that I disagreed that it should be marked and that I would refuse to mark it as NSFW. However, I also respect that it is their community and their rules so I settled for something different. I didnāt add an NSFW tag, I just deleted it wholesale. I didnāt want to add a tag to something that I didnāt feel was applicable and instead of having to sit with that tag on the post, I just deleted the post entirely.
So this only leaves two options from the mods of 196.
Either they banned me for posting comments that were supportive of the community itself and not directly supportive of them or they banned me for deleting a post.
In either case? The moderators of !196@lemmy.world are no better than reddit moderators who just lash out for their own ego. Blanket bans for disagreements.
And perhaps unsurprisingly and perfectly fitting of every single accusation that has been levied so far against them and their abusive practices, the last moderator to interact with me was @moss@lemmy.world.
I find it fucking hysterical how the mods over there are so vehemently Anti-Trump (and should be given the userbase and content) but act no better than someone in his administration.
Edit: I found the post about it being NSFW after going through Mossā profile but unsurprisingly Moss had to go ahead and suppress my comment there as well. Itās remarkable how much of their profile is just whining about being treated unfairly while theyāre going ahead and treating people unfairly. But of course, Moss (being a redditor) had to go ahead and downvote before the removal of the post. Fragileā¦ jesus.
As for how I feel it should be remedied, Moss should step down or at least be removed as a mod on Lemmy.world. Theyāve done nothing for the community that hasnāt been insanely divisive as of late. They seem to be remarkably tonedeaf and just openly abusing their position.
Update
@Kolanaki@pawb.social went to the community and straight up asked why I was banned. For the record I didnāt ask for this or anything and was completely blindsided when I got a notification in my inbox. But a mod over there did respond with this:
So Iām unbanned from the community because a mod could find no reason that made sense why I was banned.
Tell me how that doesnāt unilaterally prove that Moss was indeed just banning people over petty ass reasons?
Iām going to be real, that is the least assuring thing Iāve ever heard. That mods need to hold the lead mods āfeet to the fireā and that thereās ānot much they can do about itā.
/c/196@lemmy.world is far more screwed than I thought it was.
You misread the part you quoted. There is a lot we can do about her mod actions. Even though sheās the lead mod, we can undo her actions.
What there isnāt much we can do about is holding her feet to the fire. Itās hard to do that to someone who isnāt present :p
Fair, I did misread that.
However.
Itās still not a good look that the moderation team is having to clean up the mess of the lead moderatorā¦ Moreover, this shit was left sitting until I made this post. Kolankis was left sitting until they brought theirs up. So clearly theres a lot that is slipping through the cracks with people who get hit with this and are just stuck with it indefinitely. Honestly, itās way worse than if it was just a shitty moderator team across the board because in this case youāve got good mods who want to do good who are being actively hampered by someone else who is undoing all of that goodwill. And a community where people can genuinely be left in a state of not sure what is going to happen to them that day and if itāll be undone the next.
Iām sorry that youāve gotta go through that. I wish you the best of luck with it all, though.
Thatās totally valid. Iāll have to start checking the modlog every once and a while when Iām on.
We do have a group email and a matrix chat for this kind of thing, but tbf itās not linked anywhere where an unjustly banned user would think to lookā¦ Iāll see about putting it somewhere more obvious in case this kind of thing keeps happening. (Yāall can also DM us. I think Qaz and I are the most active but Peachy is also reliable)