Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned?
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks agoYou can call BS, sure, but nothing happens other than the mods/admins just banning you as well. It’s no better than reddit in actually preventing bullshit mod actions.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I grant you that it’s not perfect and it doesn’t prevent the abuse in the first place, but calling it out is important. There are still plenty of drama about people DMing each other, but there’s less hearsay involved, and appropriate suspicion is cast upon any mod that’s too vague with their ban comments or any user that doesn’t want to reveal their old banned username.
In terms of what users can do about mod abuse: There have been coordinated community shifts in response. A couple examples:
!onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone was created because the !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone mods wanted to forcibly move the community to !196@lemmy.world, but most users didn’t like that because BZ has more LBGTQ+ friendly policy. So the new community got set up with new mods.
!risa@startrek.website more or less moved or splintered to !tenforward@lemmy.world after some mod beefing and people getting banned for some rules even though it was a “no real rules” community.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
One of the biggest issues here is, like reddit, most of the ban actions are shown as just being done by “mod”, not giving the specific mod account that did it.