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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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As the title says, i recently got banned from lemmy.world because they use regex (or a similiar mechanism) to ban someone instance-wide even if you write that thing on another instance
The mod log for whoever is interessed: https://feddit.it/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBanFromCommunity&userId=20251941

Anyway, the culprit comment was this: https://feddit.it/comment/20981739

Apparently it banned me because i cited the blacklist that contained some URL or word that .world doesn't like
Also, i had to use this 2nd account to write this post because i couldn't access this community in my main one (it's not an instance problem because when logged out i can find the community on feddit.it)

Honestly, i hope that .world admins wake up and understand that automated bans with regex are not the way and doing that on other instances is even worse!

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Sadly that's the issue with automoderators. Our own threativore has built-in functionality where you can PM it directly with the moderation-action code and the admins get a notification to reverse easily.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Honestly at this point it's looking nothing like automod and entirely like a surreptitious attempt to control the damned fediverse

Edit: nailed it.

[–] db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Badmiral is mad they got caught. What a snowflake.

If this pisses you off because I took your toy away, if this triggers you because, god forbid, people just have to hear the violent crazies no matter what, fine, I don’t care.

Always, always, always, projection with these people

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The fact this twat can't even conceive of user agency wrt blocklists...

[–] db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah because everyone else is stupid but me

I was 13 and a prick once, I guess I get it

[–] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

our team also gets notified about automod actions, but sometimes there is nobody available to deal with it immediately. we typically undo false-positives within an hour, and for most users it doesn't have to be requested, as it's obvious from context when it's legitimate content.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Your mod team is also notified when JordanLund acts like the ZioNazi he is, and you don't do anything about it. So you're aware of problems and continue to do nothing about them.

That tracks for axis.world

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hm, if you have to review all auto-mod actions, I can imagine that at some point people will stop paying attention. I find it better to be notified only when you have to do something (such as with an appeal request)

[–] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

we currently don't have that many automod actions that it would be problematic. often we don't even have a single one in a day. the notifications also include additional information about the user and reason to help with the review.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I went to take a look at the modlog you linked and they unbanned you twenty minutes ago, so apparently someone did "wake up."

Agreed that regex isn't the way to go, though.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 5 days ago

Yeah, i sent them an email this morning, luckly they answered me quickly and unbanned me

[–] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

lol just stay away from world, its a shitshow over there.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Well shit, we already started a micromobility community over there. What's the deal with .world exactly?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Today?

Zionists turbolibs decided to patch a stealth update into a lemmy front end that one of them makes, that bans a whole bunch of leftist instances and users... along with a bunch of blahaj, because fuck them queers too, I guess?

db0 essentially discovered it during updating to a new lemmy version, this has led to much popcorn, very alot of salt.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But that was done by the dev of Tesseract, not by the people running Lemmy.world

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

The dev of Tesseract is part of the .world mod/admin team.

EDIT: Ironically, just like you.

Check the original link on the origin instance before assuming people are admins or team members. They have a badge when they're admins.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago

I don't think that's correct. One of the lw mods reported this as misinfo.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

The dev of Tesseract is part of the .world mod/admin team.

EDIT: Ironically, just like you.

What do you mean? I'm not part of the .world team, I only mod a few communities that are on there.

[–] TRAHR@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

It’s the “Reddit” of Lemmy.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I once got one for linking to a domain commonly used by spammers. I forget the context of why exactly, but it got reversed pretty quick without a big fuss. Given the volume there compared to others some type of automation would be needed without paid mods on staff.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The problem is that they ban you for something you wrote on another instance! The comment was on a lemmy.ml community on my feddit.it account, that's something they shouldn't even care about to begin with!

And still, the automation is just some bot that check for a regex so it's not that great either...

[–] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

would you prefer an All feed on your instance that is filled with advertisements? of course we care about content that is posted to other instances in certain categories, like spam or illegal material.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You do you ig, i don't agree with that way (Thx for the unban btw)

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I know they have unbanned you by now, but hopefully the experience has made you realize that you would be happier on a different instance. Join us! :)

[–] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I never used .world to begin with :P
The ban was made even though my main account is on feddit.it and the post was on the Lemmy community in the lemmy.ml instance, crazy thing .-.

Oh! You explained that I overlooked. Totally on me! lol