So I try to make heads or tails of this situation. I got randomly banned from a community where I posted a youtube video showing something from a Convention. Then I wanted to post a question today but realised that I couldn’t since I was banned. That community is sadly the biggest of all Star Citizen communities (the next one would be from lemmy.world)

I took a look at the Mod log and see the following line in it:

So no clean up of violating comments or posts, just a strict out ban.

The community has a pretty standard ruleset:

further, the moderator @[email protected] hasn’t posted anything since a year, so what gives here, or was it some other mod that was able to declare the ban?

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    7 days ago

    This has nothing to do with the community. The modlog shows that you were banned site-wide from lemmy.ml, which is implemented by a ban from each individual community individually (so despite how this says it was done by a “mod”, it was actually an admin):

    Removed Comment So they are doing a China? by [email protected] reason: Rule 1

    It is an unwritten rule that you are not allowed to criticize China there. Or Russia. Or anything else that they do not like.

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      7 days ago

      Oh damn now that makes sense. This site wide ban really needs to be conveyed better so I didn’t even thought of making that connection.

      To bad that one of the biggest meme community is hosted on .ml