I discovered that I was banned from [email protected] for being a “known detriment to the community,” despite never having posted there or even knowing about the community.

A similar situation occurred with [email protected]. This community uses a bot that bans people based on their downvote history, regardless of whether they’ve actually visited the community.

This policy from [email protected] actually caused me some trouble. After moving to a new instance, I stumbled upon this community and decided to post there. The owner then initiated a thread to have me banned across the federation for “ban evasion,” even though I was unaware of any prior ban and had only just learned of the community.

This owner has implemented a bot that automatically bans individuals, only to potentially unban them depending on their upvote/downvote ratio, without considering their actual involvement in the community.

As you might guess, his moderation log is a constant stream of bans, which is quite amusing.

While I’m not usually one for pettiness, I think I would like to return the favor to those mods and pre-ban them from my communities.

However, I’m not sure how to go about doing this. Any tips?

  • Universal Monk@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    How am I toxic? I don’t advocate for violence. I don’t call anyone names. I don’t post in communities where I’m not welcome.

    Obviously, you’re welcome to your opinion Mr. MyOpinion, but I’d love to know why you would consider me “toxic.”

    I can totally see how some would be unhappy with news articles that I post because many are not in favor of their preferred candidate. In which blocking me would solve the problem. But I don’t write the articles, and they are from very public, very popular websites.

    So “toxic” would seem an odd word to use for that.