I'm not a troll, I just call other people out for their BS.

I think most of lemmy.today is bad faith astroturfing.

This is not the first time !PapaSkwat@lemmy.today has preemptively banned me from a community I'm pretty sure I've never interacted with.

This is a warning for others. Do not assume posts on Lemmy.today are real or in good faith.


Here is a related post with similar circumstances.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/57218230

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[–] 52 points 1 month ago (21 children)

OMG who gives a shit about voting, these people are out of their minds

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  • [–] [S] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    I'm pretty sure I never voted on a single post from that community, but I did down vote one of that mods posts one time and was banned from a lot of communities they mod immediately after. I guess I'm on their premature block list or something.

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    [–] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    The number of comms I've never heard of before, but already been banned from is too damn high! Most of them are .ml, though, so it's kind of expected.

    But also a few because some powermod got super-salty about me downvoting their AI slop posts. No other interaction, just a few downvotes.

    How thin-skinned do you have to be to go around banning people from every comm you have control over because somebody downvoted your post?

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    [–] 21 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I was literally just in a ModAbuse comm complaining about the same person! I got the pre-ban as well, as if I wanted to join a comm about celebrating mediocrity.

    DonaldJMusk is a troll and a baby.

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    [–] 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Yeah, it's a PTB for sure. Skwat is hinky as fuck often enough that even though a preemptive ban isn't automatically PTB, them doing so makes me assume it is until proven otherwise.

    Mind you, I ain't hatin, just pointing out that the mod in question is of uncertain motivation imo.

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    [–] 17 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Feels more like lemmy.today is just a terrible place

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    [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Man, I wonder how many crappy comms I've never heard of have banned me because I downvote something that appeared on the front page?

    Haha, fuck 'em.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    doesnt seem like community anyone should use anyway if they have admins like that. so maybe he did you a favor?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Wait, did they label you a fascist too? I mean ad-homs/pejoratives like that tell me all I need to know.

    "I wouldn't be a member of any club that would have me".

    I'd wear the ban proudly.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Yeah Lemmy mods really have nothing better to do

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Honestly, I think it is more insidious.

    Astroturfing

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    https://lemmy.world/post/40009107

    PapaSkwat exists on half a dozen different instances. A good number of them post in news and political comms in addition to a bunch of plain things meant to water down their feed. They mod a bunch of those comms and feature/unfeature posts to manipulate the modlog. Not to mention they're doing this with about a dozen accounts. The loser even admitted it in a DM.

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    [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    How much of a loser would a person need to be to look at voting patterns to do pre-emptive bans?

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