I discovered that I was banned from !ukraine@sopuli.xyz for being a “known detriment to the community,” despite never having posted there or even knowing about the community.

A similar situation occurred with !PleasantPolitics@slrpnk.net. This community uses a bot that bans people based on their downvote history, regardless of whether they’ve actually visited the community.

This policy from !PleasantPolitics@slrpnk.net actually caused me some trouble. After moving to a new instance, I stumbled upon this community and decided to post there. The owner then initiated a thread to have me banned across the federation for “ban evasion,” even though I was unaware of any prior ban and had only just learned of the community.

This owner has implemented a bot that automatically bans individuals, only to potentially unban them depending on their upvote/downvote ratio, without considering their actual involvement in the community.

His mod log is a wall of bans. lol

While I’m not usually one for pettiness, I think I would like to return the favor to those mods and pre-ban them from my communities.

However, I’m not sure how to go about doing this. Any tips?

  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee
    3·
    13 days ago

    Yes they do. When they get banned they will try to sneak back in with another account.

    • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
      3·
      13 days ago

      I’d be nice if “satirical news” and “I didn’t choose the title” kinds of posts were required to be tagged. But then again, they’d probably find another excuse to keep up the spam

      • Universal Monk@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        I’ve never posted “satirical news.” But you are correct, I don’t chose the titles of the news articles, nor do I write them.

        Seems like you would just avoid clicking on the links if you didn’t wanna read them.

    • Universal Monk@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      How many instances have I been banned from compared to how many I am a part of. Do that math, please.

      .world was the only one that I got banned from that I was actually active on. 2 others did, but I wasn’t even active on them.

      Same goes for communities. The most recent communities that banned me, banned me even tho I never posted in them! lmao

      So no, I don’t keep getting banned. Even tho you want me to. Thanks!