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.
You must log in or # to comment.
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.
I’m not banned (yet), it was something I saw in the modlog whilst checking something else.
I didn’t realise it was so common. Why are people so awful to one another :(
Could it be an instance ban?
In other situations, mass bans sometimes happen because it’s easier. Moderators often use custom scripts they’ve written to ease the administration burden. Personally, I don’t even provide a reason for bans, its just one more field to fill, and for the benefit of someone disruptive or acting in bad faith? Why bother.
Moderators don’t owe anyone anything. If you don’t like a mod, it costs you nothing to spin up another community. Hell, if you do it on another instance, you can even have the same name, and with crosspost merging apparently coming to this corner of fedi, it makes even less difference.
This. This is how an instance ban shows up, as a series of bans on any community they were active in on that instance.
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.
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.
its .ml
that means the user either said something not-nice about china or russia
or they implied america isnt 100% bad and has some redeeming features
