For the crime of making a joke about Russia's technology in the 90s, lemmy.ml admin hands down a 1 week ban across 20 communities.
For the crime of making a joke about Russia's technology in the 90s, lemmy.ml admin hands down a 1 week ban across 20 communities.
I made a joke about how Russia was a bit behind in video game tech in the 90’s and got banned, lol.
Modlog, which includes a site ban—something only admins can do.
The community bans also include communities that aren't moderated by any instance admins, and some that are only moderated by a single person who likely isn't aware of actions taken under their community's name.
Tankies want to talk a bunch of big shit. Then when you shut them down with a single comment they cry like babies and run for the mod buttons.
Getting banned by tankies is a badge of honor
Wear it proudly
It's more like a participation trophy IMO.
This was not a common item in 1996 Russia, I think. In the 1990s, TV-based games weren't catching on in the East nearly as much because it was too difficult to create SECAM color video as opposed to NTSC or PAL. (This is part of why most of the East calls them "computer games", along with the rarity of non-computer consoles à la Pong or Magnavox Odyssey. The only ones I know to have been called "video games" were imported arcade cabinets in trailers that would travel from town to town. Known as "videoherna" (video game room) in Czech, they were rare and loved by "weirdos". I imagine they were quite lucrative for the handful of people skilled at smuggling and repairing monitors without original parts.) Lucky kids would play on IBM-compatible PCs or Game Boys, less lucky ones on Atari 8-bit computers, ZX Spectrum clones or this:
This game is Nu pogodi from the Elektronika IM series, a legendary toy in the Eastern Bloc. Manufactured in 1986-1993, it used a chip design stolen from the 1981 Game & Watch Egg game. They didn't even update the clock to 24 hours, the preferred format in Eastern countries.
In the US, the state will find you for illegally copying Nintendo games.
In Soviet Russia, you'll find that the state has been illegally copying Nintendo games all along!I loved games like those as a kid.
I had the original one!! Everyone dreamed of the Donkey Kong foldable one...
Super boring BTW.
My father had the Soviet clone, and it's still in the attic in a beat-up original box. It no longer works, the chip was killed presumably by static electricity when someone touched the battery contacts... Early CMOS was super fragile, even low-frequency circuits like this.
Super boring BTW.
This was probably the best affordable electronic toy in the USSR. They could have beaten this if they released a Tetris handheld but they didn't have enough R&D time before the regime crumbled; it would likely never get approved either.
Well, the community's rule is specifically not to make political jokes in the https://lemmy.ml/c/nonpolitical_memes subreddit.
So removing the comment seems acceptable. Banning like this is certainly ridiculous. On the other hand the modlog shows this user "Dasus" to be a serial troll, who got himself banned on many communities.
The community bans also include communities that aren’t moderated by any instance admins, and some that are only moderated by a single person who likely isn’t aware of actions taken under their community’s name.
FYI, any site bans will also automatically generate community bans for all local communities that user has ever interacted with.
It's simply the current behavior for site bans and not an admin going through communities to ban that user.
That doesn't mean the site ban is legitimate, just that the community-bans are inherent to any site-bans.Yeah this is becoming a real problem with tech communities being hosted on .ml which is way to sensitive about anything remotely close to common sense. I'm very careful not to post anything political on .ml and I'm 100% threading on a knifes edge if I ever say or post anything regarding news or politics there. I will get site banned for sure.
instances apart from national ones should be more specialized to avoid this.
I've just blocked them at this point, not worth my time
That's kind of a weird way of doing it, but good to know thanks!
Honestly it's not really a good way of doing it in my opinion, seems like it could potentially spam a lot of ban messages if a user interacted with a lot of communities. Would be better if they worked on federating site bans with every community, and also federating the message in the global modlog instead of
mod banned userdomod banned user from lemmy.domain.tldor whatever the instance domain is. That way information is still communicated and you don't get problems with them being able to interact in communities on a server they were banned from. All while not spamming the modlog.
But noooo lemmy.ml is not a problem.....
Blocking that instance improved my Lemmy experience dramatically.
Socialism to authoritarianism in 3… 2… 1…
It's so quick and easy when you start at the authoritarianism part already
Painfully on brand
Man... I really wish Kbin was the one who took off instead. I know lots of people turned off by the fact that Lemmy has lots of suspicious folks like this.
I really liked Kbin, it just kept breaking.
Use mbin? It's the server I'm on.
Does it have mobile clients?
Also they would just move to kbin
They seem to be banning anything anti Russia just based on your modlog, buy you also have a hard time following their rule2: be nice. So I can kinda see where they are comming from as well.
Oh, I wasn't the one who was banned. I'm here to call out questionable use of moderation powers by the lemmy.ml admins. If the admin felt that the user violated instance rules, the recourse was to issue a site ban—which they did. Throwing in 20 community bans after that for the same time frame is petty and unnecessary.
My bad. Iäm not saying that lemmy.ml is acting in bad faith, their Rule 2 looks very much like a catch-all for anything they do not like. But the user in question could have used better wording.
20 community bans is indeed not warranted.
Lemmystan.