10mo ago

Resolved: Was banned for 3 days from News seemingly for no reason, no message, nothing just found it scrolling through the modlog

Edit: @Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com Contacted the moderator who did it on my behalf who admitted that this was a mistake, he sends his apologies. This incident though does highlight though the need for ban notifications as well as the need for a modmail system to contact community and site moderators.

I have left the post up with the original contents bellow as I feel it would be wrong to delete the post and rob people of the valuable information it contains, both in the post itself and in the comment section.

I messaged a mod from the community, not sure if that was the one who did it but this was weird. Not sure if it's power-tripping probably a mistake but it's certainly weird and seems like a knee jerk reaction since I didn't have activity in those last 10 days (I checked for votes too). Also no other bans in the modlog for "sock puppet account" so I don't even know why I would be singled out.

Why would someone think I was a sock puppet account? Because I have multiple accounts on different instances? Really weird...

Account is @Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world, I didn't post from that account since I try to keep each account on each separate instance (helps prevent accidental vote manipulation).

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I'm wondering if it was just because you have alts? But it's not against any rules to have alts afaik so long as you're not doing vote manipulation etc. And yours are clearly identifiable which is another point in your favour here. If you want me to reach out to the mod who banned you on your behalf, just let me know. They might not answer me, but it's maybe worth a shot.
- I think that could be helpful, I did also send a message to @kersploosh@lemmy.world to hopefully get a lemmy.world admin response but I suppose you messaging the mod couldn't hurt. Maybe he might answer and clear things up quicker that way.
  
  Ok np, I have messaged the mod who took the action.
I messaged a mod from the community, not sure if that was the one who did it but this was weird.
Lemmy really needs a modmail function. Playing mod roulette when asking questions is a fucking pain.
- I agree, this is really stupid having to message mods individually. @dessalines@lemmy.ml (maybe it was nutomic, I don't really remember right now) says it's because they don't want Lemmy to be a messaging platform, that mods should use external tools. I disagree. We need modmail and adminmail functions native to Lemmy, not needing to use funky bots or external tools.
  We also need for bans to notify the people they're given to, otherwise it's as bad as shadowbans. I could've probably reached out about this days ago but I didn't even know it had happened, I don't look myself up in the modlog, I was looking to see if an unrelated incident had been actioned. Who knows when I would've found out if I hadn't been combing the modlog, weeks, months, would I have ever?
  
  Bans do notify, I believe, if you're on the same instance as the community.
  
  Running as an admin on another platform, having a separate communication medium is extremely important.
  I'd back them on this, just on good practices basis.
- If you get banned from an instance, this won’t help. They delete the account outright and all its posts and founded communities.
- I might work on this. My implementation would be a simple backend route that simply messages all of the mods in a community (maybe with a [modmail] prefix as an indicator) Should be fairly simple. Like a bulk PM.
  
  That approach seems ineffective to me, you'd end up with situations where every mod wastes time responding to the same thing or where no mod responds at all because they assume someone else will handle it.
  Imo a better starting point is a hidden text post which notifies mods of a community.
- Modmail is much more of a gamble because you don't know if you potentially get the abusive mod on the other end, claiming to speak for the whole team.
  
  Back on Reddit, the whole team saw modmail, even if another mod already responded to it. Also, I think the mod responses were visible to other mods.
Looks like they disagreed with you, and they have a tinfoil hat collection
- This issue has been resolved for 3 months, the mod contacted me and apologized that it was a mistake.
News comm going really crazy lately. Especially with having sudden new rules like you can't question mod actions in comments or ask why something was removed
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