So I try to make heads or tails of this situation. I got randomly banned from a community where I posted a youtube video showing something from a Convention. Then I wanted to post a question today but realised that I couldn’t since I was banned. That community is sadly the biggest of all Star Citizen communities (the next one would be from lemmy.world)
I took a look at the Mod log and see the following line in it:
So no clean up of violating comments or posts, just a strict out ban.
The community has a pretty standard ruleset:
further, the moderator @[email protected] hasn’t posted anything since a year, so what gives here, or was it some other mod that was able to declare the ban?
I saw that entry. It was in lemmy.world, not .ml, and given the target of the joke I don’t think that the .ml team would care about it.
Yup, pretty much. They never communicate properly who is removing the content / banning the user, and why. And they clearly don’t want to. (Perhaps the .ml admins are waiting for the devs to implement transparency features into Lemmy /s)
Good point.
Before I saw the /s my brain was cracking up … uh, the .ml admins are the devs tho?!?!?!
And they have actively taken steps to prevent people from finding how who did what action. Only
authority figuresadmins can see some of that now, while the rest of us just see “mod”. In fairness, it does protect a mod team against aboose.Though it shifts the balance of power away from the worker/peasant/user-class and upwards to the we-are-all-equal-but-some-of-us-are-more-equal-than-others-who-are-supposedly-also-equal class. You know, the principles of “communism”, where famously we are all equal except the handful of rulerz above us all?
But as I mentioned elsewhere, it’s their software, and they can - and WILL btw - make it work however they want to. We are the ones who choose to use it… or not.