Had a similar issues, and could contact a mod with an alt account to get unbanned, but indeed looks like they used a nuke to kill a Goblin.
Also, I still don’t get the point for bot to post “engaging content”. At worst it’s a bit too cliché you wake up in the body of the last person you ask with or too rage-baity Say something good or bad about Israel but it’s not like karma is worth something here.
Is that why they ban people? I got banned from that Community I have no idea why, never got a notification, I try to look it up in the mod log and I couldn’t find it.
You can be preemptively banned from a community or even an instance if the mods and/or operator have decided they don’t like you. The open source nature of the Fediverse being what it is, various tools and clients have been developed that allow select individuals with whackmobile hobby-horse viewpoints with varying degrees of insanity to sweep users’ post and comment histories for opinions or keywords they disagree with, singling you out to add to their ban lists. Merely being known to associate with the “wrong” instance (lemmy.ml and hexbear are popular targets) can score you a ban even if you’ve never posted anything at all.
Ostensibly this type of capability is supposed to be beneficial for keeping known bad actors and bots out of our spaces. But human nature being what it is, more prosaically it’s often used by instance operators or community moderators to… let’s just say, self-gratify themselves over the notion of getting back at their perceived enemies from a position of safety and no repercussions, in order to Teach Them All A Lesson or whatever the hell.
Some people even purposefully create ragebait communities with the express purpose of enticing others to comment there so that the creator can get their rocks off by being nasty to the participants and have a little power trip over banning everybody. We had a rather prominent one of those right here earlier in the year, in fact, which I now notice appears to be gone.
I got banned from RPGmemes for apparently boosting a bot account. So no idea.
Had a similar issues, and could contact a mod with an alt account to get unbanned, but indeed looks like they used a nuke to kill a Goblin.
Also, I still don’t get the point for bot to post “engaging content”. At worst it’s a bit too cliché you wake up in the body of the last person you ask with or too rage-baity Say something good or bad about Israel but it’s not like karma is worth something here.
Not only that but if the bot is increasing engagement in your community then…isn’t that at least an admissible thing?
Is that why they ban people? I got banned from that Community I have no idea why, never got a notification, I try to look it up in the mod log and I couldn’t find it.
You can be preemptively banned from a community or even an instance if the mods and/or operator have decided they don’t like you. The open source nature of the Fediverse being what it is, various tools and clients have been developed that allow select individuals with whackmobile hobby-horse viewpoints with varying degrees of insanity to sweep users’ post and comment histories for opinions or keywords they disagree with, singling you out to add to their ban lists. Merely being known to associate with the “wrong” instance (lemmy.ml and hexbear are popular targets) can score you a ban even if you’ve never posted anything at all.
Ostensibly this type of capability is supposed to be beneficial for keeping known bad actors and bots out of our spaces. But human nature being what it is, more prosaically it’s often used by instance operators or community moderators to… let’s just say, self-gratify themselves over the notion of getting back at their perceived enemies from a position of safety and no repercussions, in order to Teach Them All A Lesson or whatever the hell.
Some people even purposefully create ragebait communities with the express purpose of enticing others to comment there so that the creator can get their rocks off by being nasty to the participants and have a little power trip over banning everybody. We had a rather prominent one of those right here earlier in the year, in fact, which I now notice appears to be gone.
The Internet remains, as ever, a strange place.