Not a joke, that person tried to take over a Colorado sub from my wife. We both saw exactly what he was doing and refused.

I want to remind people that Lemmy is not immune to this

Went to r/whatisthisworth to try to get helpo on defining what type of a lamp I have and how much I can sell it for.

Made a post. Message says "All posts are manually approved" and shortly after "We have deleted your post due to rule #whatever"

Rule states: Items must be truly unique. Posts with items that are easily to find in google or with google lens will be deleted.

Lamp in question

Lamp has no stickers, no documents, no writings on any part of it except 2 numbers: 1812-1916. If to be googled, you find similar style lamps of all other types except exactly this type. There is no brand page, nor is there any info about how much it could cost. The closest looking lamp is sold on a site that sells refurbished antique lamps. Others are facebook makretplace and vintage item listings that are dead for years. Any description anywhere says: Vintage lamp for sale. Nothing about brand, model, production year, style. NOTHING. Even LLMs have no idea and wont hallucinate an answer.

Deletion message says that I can contact any mods to ask a question regarding my deleted post. First mod does not accept private messages. Second mod does. Shooting a message that in short was:"Hey! You deleted my post stating that it is easily google-able/google-lens-able. Can you point me to where you found my item? Cause me googling it leads to a dead end." Week after waiting for a reply.

Checking this sub. Guy asks how much is this HiFi system worth. HiFi system in question has reputable brand name, model number, documents, everything. IT IS FUCKING GOOGLE-ABLE AS IT CAN GET. Post doesn't get deleted. People in comments suggest prices.

WHAT IN THE FUCK?

I just had the opposite problem on Lemmy. I told a mod they were wrong so they promoted me to mod and said “you do it” lol.

The wprst part of reddit is subs can ban you cause you interact in other subs like bruh wtf?

We unfortunately get the same kind of thing in the fediverse - I'm still banned from a ridiculous number of sh.itjust.works communities (more than are in the modlog, even) due to automod, even tho the intial ban was reverted as a false positive.

I was banned from a fishing sub. Someone posted some photos of all the trash people leave at their local lake. I commented that people that do that should have their license permanently suspended. I said that they do not respect nature. I also suggested that people should bring a garbage bag and to pick up any litter they see. Banned for "toxicity"

I messaged OP and they were also banned for toxicity and the post was removed.

Messaged the mods asking how my comment was toxic. They claimed I was shaming people. I said, yes, they should be ashamed. Leaving trash is disrespectful and shameful. They said, exactly, that type of rhetoric is not allowed. I then asked them if they leave trash at the lakes were they fish. Site wide permanent account ban for harassment. I filed an appeal and it was denied.

Reddit has become a shadow of it's former self.

That's how I found the fediverse.

man I got banned from so many communities on lemmy just because I had the audacity to throw shit back at the monkeys.

fuck em. I blocked them so I never have to interact with those communities ever again. if mods with fragile egos want to destroy their communities by blanket banning people from everywhere they mod, let em.

This one is slightly more deserved but equally infuriating.

I used to lurk in some right wing spaces on reddit. I had been there for years, just watching. Taking the temperature of the groups so to speak.

I spoke up one time, To correct something I found truly egregious.

Suddenly I was shadow banned in like a dozen left-wing spaces. Spaces that I thought were about discussion.

And then I was shadow banned in the right-wing spaces the next day.

It was definitely something.

I also got banned from the pro-choice debate sub once because I asked for clarification on a bad faith argument the pro-lifers always use.

I was told it wasnt the community's job to educate me...um...yeah it kinda is because this is a DEBATE sub and I would like to know how to answer this bad faith argument when my aunt uses it at Thanksgiving.

You have been banned from r/Pyongyang

It's really a shame that reddit has no interest in being good, because there are multiple ways you could address this:

• Slashdot style moderation review is my favorite

• having resources elect their mods could also prevent these grabs and server as a way to handle obvious abuse

But they seem more interested in getting ai to replace mods & be worse at it.

Welcome to Lemmy, they do the same thing here.

Fediverse admins should form a pact against this kind of power modding, where we all agree to ban a mod who does this this, and defed an admin who does this stuff.

I once got banned from several subs because of a comment I made in a totally unrelated sub, that some moderator saw, and was offended by.

I don't remember what it was, but it wasn't particularly offensive, and it wasn't even directed at that person, and the mod didn't even moderate that sub. They just saw it, disagreed, and then banned me from a bunch of subs they modded.

I'm banned from a bunch of random subs on here for joking that Jack Ma got disappeared for re-education. Power tripping mods are everywhere.

Banned from /r/WelcomeToReddit

Lol, never run into PugJesus on here huh?

"Reddit moderators should be treated like celebrities" - Ex r/LiveStreamFail mod

FWIW the same thing happened to me on the Lemmy subreddit

https://lemmy.world/post/18642456

Let's also not forget the very manipulative and toxic stuff people did to take over some of the more fringe political subs.

I cant remember the full story but I remember a few years ago reading a wall of text explaining how like 3 users took over a block of conspiracy subs by getting the original owner banned and claiming the subs were unmoderated.