Ban-Hammered

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This Community is to showcase a screenshot of the Last Post or Comment you made before a platform or community banned you. We are eager to see what got you banned from Reddit, a particular subreddit, Twitter, a Mastodon instance, or even a Lemmy community! We understand that some bans are legitimate (for example, posting spam or being a dick). This community is to showcase mod abuse and censorship.

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This's why I hate Reddit and r/worldnews (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by 1Transient to c/banhammered

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[–] jordanlund 6 points 6 months ago

Shit like this is why, when I have to ban someone or remove a comment or a post, I always make a public comment.

There should be no ambiguity over it.

[–] retrospectology 3 points 6 months ago

Shadow banning is one of the most toxic moderation practices on any platform. If a site or community has a set of guidelines then there is no reason it shouldn't be enforced openly.

Having to give a justification or even just a public notification of a mod action makes a moderator have to think a bit more about why they're taking an action and how it might effect the community.

People who run a privately owned forum are entitled to run it however they wish, but shadowbanning eliminates any chance for the members of a community to really understand how the community is truly being run, which robs them of their ability to make informed decisions about their own participation in that community.