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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

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Banned from [email protected] on my first post for 'spam' which it was not (lemmy.world)
submitted 14 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by pulsewidth to c/[email protected]
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Hi all.

First, thanks for reading. I'm not exactly sure if this is the correct location to raise a concern about a ban/deletion, but I guess it's as good as any.

So:

  1. I dont know which mod it was. Log is redacted?
  2. post deleted & banned from the [email protected] community
  3. screenshot of modlog attached
  4. screenshot of comment attached.
  5. It was an appreciated post with 106 upvotes 26 downvotes at deletion and several positive responses yesterday. When I came back today (I'm in Australia so timezones..) the comment was deleted and I was banned - and several negative comments have appeared which I would have liked to respond to.

Original post: a news article about Proton Mail.

My post: Essentially I took the time to read the article and included the quotes of what was written by the CEO that was being discussed in the article - as many in the comments had surprised me by jumping straight to him being a literal Nazi. As not a single other commenter had included the quotes to discuss the source, I thought that would be a valuable contribution. I also gave my opinions which you can see in the comment on the modlog, the formatting is messed up so I included a screenshot of the (recreated) comment. https://lemmy.world/modlog/1347

What I didn't notice was that the article writer had omitted the first part of the Twitter post from the CEO in her quotation of him - so I quoted her, and in doing so missed the context that the CEO had actually started "Great pick by @realDonaldTrump" at the start - which does of course change the context of his Twitter post to praise. This was clarified for me in the angry responses. I would have edited my comment and owned my mistake, however stood by the rest of the comment regarding Proton's official follow-up.

So, is that deletion and ban fair?

Update 10 hours later: contacted a mod directly to see if i can find out more about the ban or perhaps get it remedied.

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[–] surph_ninja -2 points 3 hours ago

If it’s not the Democrat linked powermods from Reddit that control r/news, then they at least draw inspiration from the same behaviors. Though I suspect it’s the same operation controlling the narrative on both.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry, I didn't read this. But ultimately they're just doing you a favor by removing you from that community, I don't think it has a nice atmosphere in the first place. Just take this as an invitation to focus on something else. Practically anything is better than commenting on the news on lemmy.world.

[–] pulsewidth 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Thats fine, i get it was long. Apprecitate the advice. If it doesn't get restored i will move on from @lemmy.world entirely tbh. I dont feel like i posted something incredibly challenging, and it certainly broke none of the rules on that comm - so i was quite surprised at the ban and deletion as a 'welcome to lemmy' after lurking for a year or so.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

It's not the length. Well, not the length of your post.

It's the length of exposure people have had to that community lol. You see it in a title or post here, you already know what the deal is. No need to read anything else

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

to me this looks more like an automod error or human mistake than actual power tripping. keep us updated on how the appeal goes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Welcome to Lemmy.world, where the rules are made up on the spot and nothing you say matters as long as it fits the official Democratic Party line.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Ur welcome in [email protected] .

[–] Docus 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Thanks, subscribed. And unsubscribed from news. Left Reddit partly due to shitty moderation, so not here to engage with communities rife with questionable mod actions

[–] pulsewidth 2 points 7 hours ago

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

.world has a discord server. You could report the mods there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Does that work better then on their support comm?

[–] pulsewidth 3 points 7 hours ago

I've messaged a mod on the News channel first to see if they can help, someone suggested to me that this could have even been an automatic moderation (since it was my first comment and it was long maybe?). The mod log is not clear as it's obfuscated/private. If i still have no luck i'll try their discord, thanks for the suggestion.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

PTB, .world is trash, nearly all other news communities are better.

[–] pulsewidth 8 points 13 hours ago

Modlog

[–] chemical_cutthroat 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The point is that they are supposed to be a neutral party. It doesn't matter if they are pro-Trump or not, what matters is that they are a fucking privacy service. I don't want my privacy beholden to any party affiliation. I don't want to worry if my information is going to be sold to whomever the party-du-jour is. I want the security that comes with the understanding that my privacy is what is most important to them. When they get on a rant about who does what and to whom, I have to wonder if that means that they'll serve my info up on a silver platter when I start getting emails from a party they don't like. I don't give a fuck what they said about either party, what I give a fuck about is what any of it means for the information that passes through their system. I need some aspect of my fucking life to be party agnostic. As it stands, I'm not even sure I can count on my fucking refrigerator to not report back what brands of beer I buy because some company may or may not support Trans rights. Just give me a goddamned moment's peace while I filter my junk mail.

[–] pulsewidth 14 points 13 hours ago

While I agree with you for the most part, actually none of that is the point of this post - the point was is it valid to delete my post as 'spam' and ban me.