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?
Haha, thanks for the interesting answer.
I guess I see what you’re saying, and can also admire that to some extent, yet the overall picture is still of a charlatan who not only used & abused people on a personal level, but also built an ongoing entity that does so on a continuing, organisation level from what I understand. For example, the chronic curtailing of womens’ rights, including downright subjugation by higher-ranked Mormons, just to name one issue.
In this era of late-stage capitalism, I can appreciate the irony.
I can imagine that being very much true at the scholarly or ‘disciple’ level, yet not so much true at higher member levels and institutional levels. Oh well, it’s still not scientology, tho.