I'm not a troll, I just call other people out for their BS.
I think most of lemmy.today is bad faith astroturfing.
This is not the first time !PapaSkwat@lemmy.today has preemptively banned me from a community I'm pretty sure I've never interacted with.
This is a warning for others. Do not assume posts on Lemmy.today are real or in good faith.
Here is a related post with similar circumstances.
I wonder how many of the accounts constantly downvoting me are this user
Almost all of them are from today domains and it started after I dared to say they were making people be unfavorable of lemmy.today
Edit hi new bots or alts
https://sopuli.xyz/u/bubbleeater
OMG who gives a shit about voting, these people are out of their minds
I'm pretty sure I never voted on a single post from that community, but I did down vote one of that mods posts one time and was banned from a lot of communities they mod immediately after. I guess I'm on their premature block list or something.
The number of comms I've never heard of before, but already been banned from is too damn high! Most of them are .ml, though, so it's kind of expected.
But also a few because some powermod got super-salty about me downvoting their AI slop posts. No other interaction, just a few downvotes.
How thin-skinned do you have to be to go around banning people from every comm you have control over because somebody downvoted your post?
I was literally just in a ModAbuse comm complaining about the same person! I got the pre-ban as well, as if I wanted to join a comm about celebrating mediocrity.
DonaldJMusk is a troll and a baby.
ModAbuse is a satire comm fyi
Lol, I didn't know but that explains some things
Wow, there's a name I haven't thought about in a while. When I briefly had an account on lemmy.today, I was always struck by all the posts when I logged in and saw the local feed.
Yeah, it's a PTB for sure. Skwat is hinky as fuck often enough that even though a preemptive ban isn't automatically PTB, them doing so makes me assume it is until proven otherwise.
Mind you, I ain't hatin, just pointing out that the mod in question is of uncertain motivation imo.
Their behavior in the other thread and this one is incredibly telling
Feels more like lemmy.today is just a terrible place
Man, I wonder how many crappy comms I've never heard of have banned me because I downvote something that appeared on the front page?
Haha, fuck 'em.
doesnt seem like community anyone should use anyway if they have admins like that. so maybe he did you a favor?
I'm not complaining that I was banned from the community, I'm issuing a general PSA.
Wait, did they label you a fascist too? I mean ad-homs/pejoratives like that tell me all I need to know.
"I wouldn't be a member of any club that would have me".
I'd wear the ban proudly.
I had tagged the mod previously
It looks like OP has tagged the mod as fascist?
Yep
How much of a loser would a person need to be to look at voting patterns to do pre-emptive bans?
Yeah Lemmy mods really have nothing better to do
Honestly, I think it is more insidious.
What's being astroturfed?
https://lemmy.world/post/40009107
PapaSkwat exists on half a dozen different instances. A good number of them post in news and political comms in addition to a bunch of plain things meant to water down their feed. They mod a bunch of those comms and feature/unfeature posts to manipulate the modlog. Not to mention they're doing this with about a dozen accounts. The loser even admitted it in a DM.
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.
All posts should follow this basic structure:
Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.
YPTB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.
Some acronyms you might see.
Relevant comms