I discovered that I was banned from !ukraine@sopuli.xyz for being a “known detriment to the community,” despite never having posted there or even knowing about the community.

A similar situation occurred with !PleasantPolitics@slrpnk.net. This community uses a bot that bans people based on their downvote history, regardless of whether they’ve actually visited the community.

This policy from !PleasantPolitics@slrpnk.net actually caused me some trouble. After moving to a new instance, I stumbled upon this community and decided to post there. The owner then initiated a thread to have me banned across the federation for “ban evasion,” even though I was unaware of any prior ban and had only just learned of the community.

This owner has implemented a bot that automatically bans individuals, only to potentially unban them depending on their upvote/downvote ratio, without considering their actual involvement in the community.

As you might guess, his moderation log is a constant stream of bans, which is quite amusing.

While I’m not usually one for pettiness, I think I would like to return the favor to those mods and pre-ban them from my communities.

However, I’m not sure how to go about doing this. Any tips?

  • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Socialist Mormon Satanist

    Hey, question–
    The first choice sounds pretty healthy to me, and the third sounds interesting in terms of the CoS, but as for the second… why would you want to have anything to do with a cult started by a chronic scam artist?

    • Universal Monk@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      why would you want to have anything to do with a cult started by a chronic scam artist?

      Brah, that’s the reason I DO want anything to do with them. Imagine how fucking awesome it is that some dude, pulled a stunt like that and so many people fell for it. Dude, he told them that he had gold pages written in some angelic script. They’d ask to look at it. He’d say “nah, I’m supposed to keep it secret and just translate.”

      How fucking charismatic would you have to be to pull that shit off? And people believed what he said so strongly, that they FUCKING WALKED across the United States to form a new town and practically build Utah from scratch.

      I admire his balls.

      Annnd by me becoming an official member (as in baptised, paperwork, and everything) I get to go to an accredited college (BYU) for $79 a credit hour. That’s cheaper than the community college in my town.

      So fuck yeah, I wanna be part of that. And how did I become a member? I just nodded my head, stayed wide-eyed, and said “yes” on every question they asked. Except for the ones where they asked me if I jerked off or fucked people. I jerk off all the time, and I had just fucked the crazy out of my gf before that question session. (She HATES that I scammed them by the way. She’s not LDS (actual name Mormons prefer), but she thinks it’s a shitty thing for me to do.)

      Now having said all that, the people I have met are some of the most honest, hardworking upright people I have ever known. But yeah, I totally faked my way into it for cheap college.

      No regrets.

      Also, you are the first person to ever ask about it on Lemmy, so yay. Most people on Lemmy think I MUST be a conservative because they see “Mormon” in my profile. How they overlook the Satanist part or that I say “fuck” all the time is beyond me tho…

      Thanks, friend!

      • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
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        1 day ago

        Haha, thanks for the interesting answer.

        I admire his balls.

        I guess I see what you’re saying, and can also admire that to some extent, yet the overall picture is still of a charlatan who not only used & abused people on a personal level, but also built an ongoing entity that does so on a continuing, organisation level from what I understand. For example, the chronic curtailing of womens’ rights, including downright subjugation by higher-ranked Mormons, just to name one issue.

        She HATES that I scammed them by the way.

        In this era of late-stage capitalism, I can appreciate the irony.

        …the people I have met are some of the most honest, hardworking upright people I have ever known.

        I can imagine that being very much true at the scholarly or ‘disciple’ level, yet not so much true at higher member levels and institutional levels. Oh well, it’s still not scientology, tho.

        • Universal Monk@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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          1 day ago

          Exactly. And I am not ever gonna feel sorry for someone who fell for the magic trick. It’s sooo outrageous and so out there, that if they are gullible enough to fall for religion, then they actually should be in a place like that so they can be protected from the real world.

          I don’t buy the excuse of “I was brainwashed” or “but but my family forced me.” blah blah blah. Fuck that noise.

          I grew up in poverty in a small midwestern town. My entire family history was Baptist. Church every Sunday. Of course they tried to have me go that route.

          At 8 years old. Yes EIGHT, I realised it was all bullshit. I kept going because of games and the friends I had there were cool.

          At 10 I admitted to my parents that not only didn’t I believe any of it, but that I had been faking it for 2 years. By then tho, I sorta started to notice girls. So I kept going. Always the class clown in sunday school class.

          Parents continually disappointed. I didn’t care then. Don’t care now.

          Got my gf knocked up when I was 17. Moved out of the house, into a new town with her, started working, did my thing.

          Parents remained disappointed. I didn’t care then. Don’t care now.

          In fact, for shits and grins, when I got baptized into the LDS (Mormon) church 3 years ago, I put it on my facebook page. There is only one thing Baptists hate as much as they hate Satan–and that’s a Mormon.

          The shock and sad emojis were glorious.

          Parents still disappointed. I don’t care.

          I do what I want. When I want. Where I want. I’m retired now at 55 yrs old. I give zero fucks what anybody thinks. That goes for family and people on the interwebs.

          Tho watching people rage at me on Lemmy for no reason other than the fact that I post Trump news is pretty entertaining.

          Thanks, friend!

          • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
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            8 hours ago

            Matey, I’m not here to put people down or be rude, mean, or hurtful, but man… it does seem like you got some issues to work out.

            • Universal Monk@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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              5 hours ago

              I have no issues, friend. I don’t take any of this seriously. And I’m surprised at how many here do!! Lol

              Don’t mistake my lack of brevity for seriousness. I mean, yeah, that post is true. But none of this shit is even close to really bothering me.

              Thanks, mate!

  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Do not help this toxic individual. They have infested many areas of Lemmy and get blocked for their bullshit.

      • MyOpinion@lemm.ee
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        8 hours ago

        Yes they do. When they get banned they will try to sneak back in with another account.

      • Universal Monk@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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        1 day ago

        They’re quite the oddball

        But just the other day, you mentioned that I was a bot and not even human. So…

        • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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          1 day ago

          Ye, you do act quite goofy. So much so I wouldn’t be surprised if you were a bot. Or maybe just an edgy 14yo

          • Universal Monk@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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            18 hours ago

            So I’m a bot or a edgy 14-yr old now?

            Well, except for the fact that I’m retired, have my own house and land, I have children older than you, and the fact that I’m old enough to have fucked your grandma when she was still hot; let’s go with the edgy teen option!

            You keep crying, I’ll keep laughing.

            Thanks, friend!

    • Universal Monk@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      How am I toxic? I don’t advocate for violence. I don’t call anyone names. I don’t post in communities where I’m not welcome.

      Obviously, you’re welcome to your opinion Mr. MyOpinion, but I’d love to know why you would consider me “toxic.”

      I can totally see how some would be unhappy with news articles that I post because many are not in favor of their preferred candidate. In which blocking me would solve the problem. But I don’t write the articles, and they are from very public, very popular websites.

      So “toxic” would seem an odd word to use for that.

        • Universal Monk@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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          1 day ago

          Not upset at all. I just want to repay those mods with the same behavior. But I’m not upset about it.

          And you thought I was a bot, so how would a bot get upset?

            • Universal Monk@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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              18 hours ago

              How would I do that? I’m a bot, right? And I don’t even remember any edits. I may have edited for clarity, but I post a lot, so I can’t remember.

                • Universal Monk@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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                  14 hours ago

                  But I was never upset, so it’s not less upset.

                  I’m aware that you really, really want me to be upset. But you’re so meaningless to me, nothing you do or say could upset me.

                  Thanks, friend!

        • Universal Monk@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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          1 day ago

          I don’t give a fuck if it will “help” my case or not. Facts are facts. And I stated the facts.

          Also, I got more upvotes than downvotes for that post. And for posts from me, that’s a rare thing. So um, looks like it did help my case after all.

          Thanks, friend! :)