7 separate posts to the community within an hour of each other, shit posting or not that’s spammy/ rep farming behavior and deserves some kind of mod action. Banned doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a perm ban.
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Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Damn. What did OP do to get banned from shit posting of all things?
As a fairly new Lemmy user, it’s a bit creepy how often I see seemingly normal posts made in the last few hours along with that big red “Banned from community” tag. Starting to feel like there are just snipers on the rooftops waiting to off people who happen to walk by.
TheHound@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Remy@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Is there rep farming on lemmy?
I thought that Karma or total up/down vote accounts are not a thing here?
Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Rep farming? How? I’m new to Lemmy but there doesn’t seem to be any sort of user rating or score. Up/down votes on posts or comments don’t seem to effect anything other than that specific post or comment.
There seem to be very few people working hard to support Lemmy communities by making new posts for others to interact with. Looking back through the last 24 hours this community only has 40 posts including OPs. That’s under 2 posts per hour. On a day when OP made 7 whole posts. And this is one of the fastest moving communities on Lemmy.
That’s not good. That’s one of the reasons main a lot of people who do try Lemmy don’t stick around. I can see messaging a user to have a conversation if they start posting a lot to the community, maybe saying to space things out a bit, but not any sort of banning.
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
yeah last time i checked (january this year i think) lemmy had maybe 30k users in total (there’s statistics here: lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats ) and it’s better than nothing but definitely has a higher ceiling than present.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s not what their moderation history says they were banned for.
Remy@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
How can I look for what a specific user got banned (wihtout searching the entire history) ?
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How can I look for what a specific user got banned (wihtout searching the entire history) ?
Assuming I understand your question (it wasn’t written very well):
You can’t, but if it’s recent at all like this, you don’t even have to scroll. On desktop, you click the three dots and there are two options for Moderation History that should give you some idea.
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
7 separate posts to the community within an hour of each other
nah that’s fine. we need content anyways.
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
the user did post a whole lot of … icky content in the past (just generally bad takes about things, some unhinged things about religion, some “we’re better than them” posts). i’ve seen them a couple of times. username “grumpy” checks out
Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t really see anything like that, and pretty much all their moderation history was them posting something that had been posted recently. Unless you mean there were other accounts that has grumpy in the name and you think they’re the same person?
Not sure what access instance admins have here, but maybe one of them could check and see if this OP and older “grumpy” banned accounts could be tied together via IP, email, or browser/device fingerprinting. But given the very little amount of moderation over so very many posts is anything other than it being a recent repost, I wouldn’t assume a person with former banned accounts.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The good news is on Lemmy you can check to see what the moderators allege they did wrong, assuming they didn’t write “None” like some of the garbage tier moderators do.
In this case, they allege some of this user’s posts were racist.
Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So their post “Cueta, Spain right now” was deleted and they were banned for it being racist. I tried to search for whatever the image was in case they’d reposted with an existing title and didn’t find anything… other than learning apparently the situation in Ceuta is completely insane.
I hadn’t heard that news. I had no idea Spain controlled that tiny bit of land at the tip Africa beside Morocco.
But much as the situation is awful and doesn’t seem like a super tasteful topic for a shit post, without seeing whatever it was I can’t see how it could be racist. Looking in to Ceuta you can see it has a crazy history, it’s been part of Spain for like 400 years, and the inhabitants are a mix of people from many places over time, with the bulk of them being much closer to Morrocan than Spanish.
The whole situation is shit, but I don’t see how you could term the folk from one side of a border crossing en masse and loads of violence and death as “racist.”
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Notice that there’s 2 posts that were removed for racism. The other one was posted 15 days prior, and was an image of a black mark zuckerburg with a comment below it implying that that was the version who steals data, which is clearly a racist post. The moderator who removed it added the comment “Next racist post gets a ban”.
The post with the Cueta post that got them banned was an image of an invasion from Lord of The Rings, equating the Cueta migrants as essentially a ‘barbarian horde’, which has traditionally been used by right-wing media as a racist scare tactic to make their viewers see non-white migrants as evil hordes who are ‘invading’ their country.
Both memes were clearly very racist, but despite that, they only received a temporary 1-week ban (I would’ve given a perma-ban for such blatant racism, myself).
Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
(Aside: Strange, how is it that you can see the posts that were deleted? It seems unlikely you’d have such great recall of an image and caption you just happened to see 15 days ago based entirely on the title “Marcus”, but if it’s accurate that is definitely fucked up and racist.)
The Ceuta (It’s spelled Ceuta, the title had it wrong) post I can understand remembering since it was within the last 24 hours. It was tens of thousands of people organized to swarm across a border en masse. An invading army seems sort of fitting for a meme. The people on both sides of this issue are ethnically and racially similar. What’s racist about that?
That seems more like a personal bias on your and the moderator in question’s ends than genuine racism. It seems more like you’re allowing the Republican bullshit to taint your own thinking. This situation has nothing to do with race.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The truth is we have no idea whether or not the post was racist; we only know that one of the moderators of that community thought it was (or wanted others to think it was).
If it was really racist, I’m glad it’s gone and I’m glad they’re banned.
If not, the opposite.
But like I said, we’ll probably never know the truth. DMing the involved parties could just result in them lying about the content of the post.