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Got banned twice for nothing?
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I dont know why? I didnt post anything there.
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this post was submitted on 27 May 2025
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The creator of Pleasant Politics made an automod bot that will preemptively ban someone if they receive a high ratio of downvotes anywhere on lemmy, not just in its own community. It's to prevent bad actors and trolls from being able to post in there at all.
Notice the link in the ban reason of your screenshot, which explains what it is and how it works.
That is a bad bot lol.
You can post in a lot of lemmy's that attract bad actors to your post. It's not instantly equals = bad. Seems very limited imo...
It seems to work fairly well overall. It weighs downvotes based on how reliable the downvoter is (to make it harder for people to artificially get someone banned), and will automatically remove the ban if you don't continue to get downvoted a lot over the course of a month. Bear in mind it only effects bans from the Pleasant Politics community, and nowhere else.
That is an extremely goofy way to moderate a community.
I wouldn't use it for an entire server, but It was an interesting experiment for that one community, IMHO. I think the lack of solid moderation tools on lemmy at the time influenced the motivation behind it.
I guess if it's primarily intended as an experiment that makes sense.
Last time I checked the community was exclusively an experiment for alternate and experimental ways of automoderation. It is worthwhile even when it fails. But do not go there unless you are ready for unexpected behaviors like this.
Based on the user's very-limited post and comment history, the bot is severely malfunctioning. I could only find one single item (a comment) where the downvotes outweighed the upvotes.
Hm, that is odd. Unless OP deleted their more controversial posts/comments, they really ought not've been banned. Though perhaps their sparse activity is working against them in the bot's eyes?
@[email protected], did Santabot glitch out in this case?
No, I didnt delete anything.