Got banned from Gaming@lemmy.zip community, because why not?

WOW

I expected mods outside .world, .ml and beehaw to be kind of normal. Turns out nope.

Does everyone here exist to further his agenda and just that?

Did people just forget that talking exist?

It started to feel like:

On Reddit, the highest crime you can do is working againest the Algorithm.

On Lemmy, the highest crime you can do is just saying anything that people might not like.

BTW, none of my posts on the gaming community was political.

I guess I will have to wait for further bans to come, to be 100% sure that I am currently using the right communities.

Context. (Not sure)

Edit #1

The fuck? They banned me from their entire instance:

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Lol if you're complaining about beehaw moderation you have bigger issues. Literally just don't be a dick and you're a-ok.
- Seriously. Every beehaw user I've met was kind and I've literally never seen a post on YPTB about them, YDI OP
You seem to be handling this in a really caustic way. Maybe take some time to self-reflect and come back in two weeks? You may be able to get unbanned if you chill a bit.
No.
these posts are always amusing...there's hardly ever any context on what was actually said, just 'i was banned'
- He is a genocide apologist.
  
  Are you sure about that?
- This might be it: https://reddthat.com/post/45366653
  
  You are a blight upon the world. Please leave.
Get bent, YDI
- Bent forward or backwards?
  
  Over
Clicked the link. YDW
You are a blight upon the world. Please leave.
- Leave to where?
  
  You are a blight upon the world. Please leave.
You posted Nazi talking points and hot banned for it
- You posted Nazi talking points
  Where did I do that?
Edit: I went back further. Based solely on this account, your @pro@reddthat.com account, I lean PTB on this specific preemptive ban. I don't have the level of patience required to dig up your main account and see if anything there would justify you the user behind the accounts being banned based on a pattern of behavior. I will say that using the ban reason as given is what pushes it back over the PTB line. Your Pro account didn't make comments or posts that indicate intentionally breaking a rule regarding the israel situation, nor making comments that did so. And I went back 3 weeks.
So, I'm leaving the previous comment made here instead of deleting or overwriting it, since this edit wouldn't make sense without the original context.
Eh, it's generally a divisive issue when preemptive bans occur, and I didn't see recent posts on that community, only elsewhere. Same with comments over the last two days. So I suspect this is a preemptive ban rather than one for immediate cause.
Keep that in mind during the rest of this.
I'm not certain this is power tripping, but I can't say for sure that your account that you posted this with fully deserved a ban purely on the reason given. There are reasons based on behavior in other ways, but that comes back to whether or not any given individual believes preemptive bans are a useful and acceptable tool, and every time it comes up, the community tends to devolve into arguing about that rather than whatever an OP did.
Now, I'm in the camp that believes preemptive bans can be a useful tool. I just believe they need to be used rarely and surgically.
In this case, it comes down not to the post that started the whole thing, but how you handled everything after that.
The removal reason shown in this post doesn't match what you did. Again, I only went back a little through the user history of this account, not any others you may use or have used in the past.
From this side of the screen, your comments are on the borderline of justifying a preemptive ban. I wouldn't have done one, not without more than what's visible in the last two days. If I had, I wouldn't have used that reason at all.
That's why I think this specific ban from the gaming community is really on the knife edge. Unless there was more to see that I didn't scroll back far enough to see, or there are factors I'm unaware of, it does lean a little closer to PTB, but you really gotta recognize that you were either crossing civility line, or walking right up to them and spitting on the other side of it. Yeah, some of what you were responding to did as well, but two wrongs don't make a right.
That's my take on it. I suspect there's more going on with the decision to ban you like that, or I'd lean heavier to the PTB side, but there's a limit to how far back I'm willing to scroll looking for a specific comment that may or may not be relevant. That's another personal peeve for me with the mod log; there should be more than an accusation in it when it's a preemptive ban, and that's not a one click process to make happen. So it doesn't happen often.
Makes guesstimating for this community a slog.
- Idk I would still feel more comfortable if communities gave users a chance to explain themselves first. For example, I would be okay with preemptive bans if the user openly supports genocide. However, going on the linked context alone, OP could just be relaying propaganda accidentally, without the knowledge of why sharing such news can harm the public view of the victims of Israel and sway more opinions toward defending Israel's cruel actions (that started in October 2023, not including their constant cruelty towards Palestinians/Gazans over history).
  It seems, as with a couple of comments in the contextual post, that simply relaying the news - in a news community no less - has triggered a few snowflakes. However the news itself is problematic, in that it implies that the abuse the hostages received actually happened, instead of focusing on the only fact - that an Israeli report states this.
  My opinion stands - as important as it is to fight back against Zionism, cruelty against living beings and oppression of freedom, I believe community leaders should try to hear from the user directly, in order to determine if a ban is necessary.
  
  Yea I agree. someone could very well be ignorant of the situation so I wouldn't do a preemptive ban if that were the case. but if they are aware they're parroting Zionist propaganda rubbish and continue doubling down on it despite being educated then I'd say a preemptive ban is justified
  
  Yeah, that's more or less where I stand too, though the exact amount of effort a mod needs to put into contacting the user may be lower in my stance than in yours.
  But I went further back and edited in a revised take. I think you're right that OP's account that the ban was issued on made a news post in a news community, and didn't engage in any fuckery in comments that merit the ban for that reason.
  
  Doesn’t want Israel destroyed is enough to get banned for supporting genocide on many parts of lemmy. Many mods delete posts and ban users that don’t follow a pro Hamas political line, regardless if rules where broken or not.

    
Zionist speaks loud—
algorithms shift the tide,
account disappears.

    
And _cryptagion now has no fears.

lol
- lmfao
- Why do you think so?

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