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Publicizing abuse of power is snitching school?

Oh, I wasn't the one who was banned. I'm here to call out questionable use of moderation powers by the lemmy.ml admins. If the admin felt that the user violated instance rules, the recourse was to issue a site ban—which they did. Throwing in 20 community bans after that for the same time frame is petty and unnecessary.

I'm not going to mention names because I can't actually see who did it, but the vague modlog ban message of "Rule x" and overreaching bans are vaguely reminiscent of another time this happened.

It wasn't a mod that did it. Mods can't make site-wide user bans.

Going through some of the communities you were banned in, Davel isn't a mod in any of them that I checked. In fact, a lot of them only have a single mod, and it's not even the same user.

I think you actually pissed off one of the .ml admins, and I'm willing to bet it's the same one that's both a self-proclaimed tankie, core Lemmy dev, and the only moderator of the socialism community on their instance. You were even instance banned for 7 days:

Banned [email protected]
reason: Rule 2
expires: in 7 days

Notice the lack of community name in that entry. I thought the .ml admins learned something from the backlash last time they abused their position and banned people from communities they don't moderate, but I can't say I'm surprised that they're going back to their old tricks.

Modlog.

You were banned for rule 2, which is no political content. If we want to be charitable, it's possible that the mod considers talking about Russia's lack of technological progress to be a political statement. I can't imagine why somebody would be upset about that unless they had a hard-on for Russia, but surely that's not the case when the moderator also decided to extend the ban to such politically neutral communities as "Anarchist memes", "Socialism", and "The Right Can't Meme."

What's more insane is that you were banned from 20 communities in total, many of which aren't even related. Fucking power mods...

Not true. They're hurting the fee-fees of those poor, delicate widdle bigots who can't stand the sight of other people being happy.

Reposting my comment from another thread because it needs to be made clear:

Those mod devs are absolute assholes.

As per the decompiled code, the game will refuse to load in certain cases with the message "Upgrade your PC, the current hardware is just ridiculous." I can understand not wanting to field support requests from extremely outdated hardware, but being condescending and not even giving players the option to try playing it...

Oh hey, it's the performative part of the circus where they go back and forth pretending the decision to say "no" wasn't unanimously agreed upon last Tuesday.

Elon doesn't need to use sand. His body expels excrement through his fingers while the Twitter app is open.

A slightly more accurate translation:

Oh, you actually noticed. We are currently waiting for our pack of lawyers to prepare the paperwork to file a suit against GamersNexus for what we are going to claim is libel. Rest assured, we are committed to trying to find some escape goat to throw under the bus and minimizing the damage to our investors.

I see you've just met Kaboom. If your Lemmy client supports it, it would be wise to add a tag for future reference...