I got banned earlier today with the message “rule 1”, no other information about why, or which comment broke the rule. As far as I can tell it was this one, which just says “We want the bot gone. That’s it. It’s really that simple.”
So I checked the modlog for other bans, and @aniki@lemmings.world was banned today as well, also just for “rule 1”, probably either for the comment saying “a stupid bot writing useless bullshit” or “This is what you call “Not listening to criticism.””, neither of which are an attack on any person.
(Also earlier today @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca was banned with the message “fuck off”, which I’m pretty sure is not a reason to ban someone from a major community, but doesn’t appear to be related to the MBFC bot.)
One more today, @stormesp@lemm.ee was banned, again just “rule 1”, last comment being this one, again not an attack on any person.
So what’s the deal here? I couldn’t find any rules for mods on lemmy.world with a brief poke around, but are we letting mods run major communities like little fiefdoms, banning people for criticism?
The what bot?! Clicks link… ooohh the spam generator that I blocked a while back. Gotcha. The thing was stupid and the posts unnessicarily long. At lease give a short and sweet and chuck the rest under a spoiler… jeez.
They added spoilers, but they don’t work on the boost app or some others.
The boost app developers really should fix that. Spoilers are working the vast majority of lemmy frontend UIs.
Some folks are putting links to MBFC in the posts, which, imo, is better than the bot but just as annoying as the people putting the anti-AI copyright link in their comments.
My favorite part of it is that the bots logic seems to either prioritize the comment part of the post or mbfc links over what the post is linking too.
So instead of getting the op content it just has mbfc at top
this is what annoys me about the complaining. the complainers could ignore it or better yet block it but its not about them but what they think other people should see. I don’t block it although I rarely look at it but im fine with its assesments.