I got banned earlier today with the message “rule 1”, no other information about
why, or which comment broke the rule. As far as I can tell it was this one
[https://lemm.ee/post/40926293/14431597], which just says “We want the bot gone.
That’s it. It’s really that simple.” So I checked the modlog for other bans, and
@aniki@lemmings.world [https://lemmings.world/u/aniki] was banned today as well,
also just for “rule 1”, probably either for the comment saying “a stupid bot
writing useless bullshit” [https://lemm.ee/post/40926293/14430488] or “This is
what you call “Not listening to criticism.””
[https://lemm.ee/post/40926293/14429206], neither of which are an attack on any
person. (Also earlier today @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
[https://lemmy.ca/u/MindTraveller] was banned with the message “fuck off”, which
I’m pretty sure is not a reason to ban someone from a major community, but
doesn’t appear to be related to the MBFC bot.) One more today, @stormesp@lemm.ee
[https://lemm.ee/u/stormesp] was banned, again just “rule 1”, last comment being
this one [https://lemm.ee/post/40926293/14416892], again not an attack on any
person. So what’s the deal here? I couldn’t find any rules for mods on
lemmy.world with a brief poke around, but are we letting mods run major
communities like little fiefdoms, banning people for criticism?
Look it’s terrible when you or ml does it but it’s perfectly reasonable when reddit.world does it.
Perfectly clear right?.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)