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?

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    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.

    • macniel@feddit.orgOP
      2·
      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

    • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
      0·
      6 days ago

      If you are a mod from lemmy.ml reading this, go fuck yourself ban me.

      You know, at those times I’m really glad that I’ve stopped moderating comms there. I closed one down, migrated another, but nobody can blame me for condoning this shit.

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 days ago

    It’s probably @[email protected] the pro-Russian shill.

    Dude denies Russian propaganda even existing. These clowns are so uncultured they genuinely don’t understand how see-through their bullshit is.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
    0·
    6 days ago

    Hey folks, I just had an amazing idea: a drinking game. Drink a sip when someone gets banned from lemmy.ml, under rule #1, for criticising either Russia or China. Two sips if there’s no reasonable way to interpret it as criticism against the populations, only against the State or corporations.

    …nah, bad idea. You’ll ruin your livers.

    Serious now. After checking the modlog, it’s clearly a PTB (power-tripping bastards) case. The nearest of something bigoted that I could find in the modlog was

    Conspiracy theorists, Populists and Putin Dick sucker will run with this for sure.

    This is bad not because you’re criticising Putin, or Trump, but because of the expression itself. Even then, it’s more of a “Watch your language, you’re being homophobic”, not grounds for a month long ban. And let us not fool ourselves, this likely had zero impact on your ban.