Round 2, this is a follow-up to this post
1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
I asked quokka for an explanation, but did not receive a response until I mentioned it in the db0 general chat.
Here’s the comment in /c/slop where I link my yptb post because someone mentioned that I had been banned for my original comment.
I did not include any call to action and I directed the conversation to YPTB because /c/slop is not for getting into it about specific moderators/admins on fedi.
As to what my ‘goals’ were by linking to it; we’re on a discussion forum, signposting a conversation happening elsewhere is not what I would consider ‘brigading’.
The post that I linked to was my own post in YPTB complaining about getting comm banned for pointing out the misogyny in the OOP post title
5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
Posting links to other comments to direct discussion there is extremely common on fediverse.
Because this was a full account purge rather than a ban, this looks like pretty clear retaliation to hide criticism of the mod that I was calling out for misogyny, rather than addressing the issue in a serious way at all.
As stated by quokka in the above matrix message, on quokk.au there’s apparently an unwritten rule that if you’re posting a link on hexbear to anywhere it’s grounds for total account deletion due to ‘brigading’ if one of their members doesn’t like what you’re saying.
It looks pretty unprecedented based on their modlog, the only people receiving such action previously were spammers
Meanwhile, there’s an entire community out there where posts are linked to on other instances with sarcastic, hyperbolic paraphrases and clear calls to action. Worth noting that even the most egregious users there don’t have their accounts purged on .ml.
The moderator that I called out (and I have to assume they were the one to report reported me) is an active participant there, and seems to see no problem with that type of behavior.
Looks like a clear double standard and retaliation for calling out the moderators overreaction to me pointing out a misogynistic post title.
I was not purged for the slop post, which I didn’t make, but rather for linking to a db0 post in a comment.