I've had multiple bans from Lemmy.ml, they are anything but neutral. The best way to cop a ban is to make a comment arguing with their point of view that people actually agree with, they hate that.

They're also some of the most insufferable people on the Internet.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Were they bans from lemmy.ml, or from specific communities within lemmy.ml? I've only had a ban from !worldnews@lemmy.ml

Edit: Actually maybe it was for the whole instance lol, not sure, I hadn't noticed I was banned for 2 weeks anyway.

Edit2: Seems it was just the one community, I was commenting on other lemmy.ml communities just fine. However the modlog doesn't say which community I was banned from. Generally, the modlog should contain more information.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've had both an account suspended, and a ban from presumably the whole instance. I didn't care enough to investigate further.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looks like you have a year ban at POLICE PROBLEM then a 5 day instance ban on another account. Although, I'm not sure it is an instance ban, I had a similar one that had no community in the modlog but I was still able to comment on other lemmy.ml communities (this could have been a federation bug).

Multiple accounts have had a bunch of removed comments under "Rule 1" and "Rule 2" bans (which are kind of bullshit as they don't actually reference which set of rules, the modlog doesn't say which community it was removed from and also most rules are just bullet points and not numbered). Typically these are either bigotry or "Be civil/respsectful", which way around they are depends on which set of rules. The former is often misused all over lemmy, but the latter can cover any hostile comment.

Currently you have a ~2 month long ban from .ml's World News, but that does seem to me a problem community from what I've been seeing.

This one was funny:

2 months ago - mod - Banned @Ilovethebomb from the community GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml

reason: PUNISHMENT TIME BITCH!

2 months ago - mod - Unbanned @Ilovethebomb from the community GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml

2 months ago - mod - Banned @Ilovethebomb from the community GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml

reason: liberal

I can just imagine the look on the mod's face when they realised their reason would be published to the modlog, trying to go back and change it only for it all to be set in stone. What's interesting is they didn't remove any comments.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

That is actually quite funny. I should go and wind up Lemmygrad then, I thought I was banned from the instance.