As the title says, i recently got banned from lemmy.world because they use regex (or a similiar mechanism) to ban someone instance-wide even if you write that thing on another instance
The mod log for whoever is interessed: https://feddit.it/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBanFromCommunity&userId=20251941

Anyway, the culprit comment was this: https://feddit.it/comment/20981739

Apparently it banned me because i cited the blacklist that contained some URL or word that .world doesn't like
Also, i had to use this 2nd account to write this post because i couldn't access this community in my main one (it's not an instance problem because when logged out i can find the community on feddit.it)

Honestly, i hope that .world admins wake up and understand that automated bans with regex are not the way and doing that on other instances is even worse!

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[–] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

Sadly that's the issue with automoderators. Our own threativore has built-in functionality where you can PM it directly with the moderation-action code and the admins get a notification to reverse easily.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

    Honestly at this point it's looking nothing like automod and entirely like a surreptitious attempt to control the damned fediverse

    Edit: nailed it.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Badmiral is mad they got caught. What a snowflake.

    If this pisses you off because I took your toy away, if this triggers you because, god forbid, people just have to hear the violent crazies no matter what, fine, I don’t care.

    Always, always, always, projection with these people

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    our team also gets notified about automod actions, but sometimes there is nobody available to deal with it immediately. we typically undo false-positives within an hour, and for most users it doesn't have to be requested, as it's obvious from context when it's legitimate content.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Hm, if you have to review all auto-mod actions, I can imagine that at some point people will stop paying attention. I find it better to be notified only when you have to do something (such as with an appeal request)

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    we currently don't have that many automod actions that it would be problematic. often we don't even have a single one in a day. the notifications also include additional information about the user and reason to help with the review.

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