11mo ago

Why can't I comment or vote on midwest.social posts?

AFAIK it has always been this way. I don't think I've been banned from an entire instance, but who knows? If I have, I wasn't told about it. Do they only allow interaction from people registered to their instance?

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https://midwest.social/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBan&userId=647363
- reason: Lib
  lmao
  
  oh my god, what a snowflake mod. Not even a real reason, I have banned people from my instance. Reason? Racism. Homophobia. Transphobia. Never "republican".
  What's weird is I have definitely been very liberal over there, I am somewhat active in !iowa@midwest.social and have never seen anything. Do the admins just have one snowflake mod?
  
  It's not loading for me. Is that all it says?
  If so that's strike two for me WRT that place.
  !theonion@sh.itjust.works just in case
  
  And the instance's sidebar:
  A lemmy server for, but not limited to, leftists in the Midwest USA
I commented once on one of that instance's communities when an instance admin was mass banning people for ridiculous reasons and was told by some of the mods that all I was doing was "giving them work" by reporting violations of their own rules. Ever since, I've had them blocked.
Seeing the reason for why you're banned tells me I made the right choice.
Looks like you got banned for 1 year 2 months ago.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=418105
This technically violates rule #5 but I feel like it's a valuable information and discussion to have available.

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