Okay, that listed reason is so five-year-old-on-a-sugar-high that I ain't even mad. Like, it goes beyond power tripping into comedy via absurdity.

However, if you're running around playing playground monitor, I can't say I blame them. Report abuse is a thing, and depending on how far you're taking it, it could well be absurdist as well

PTB

I've verified the modlog. @seahorse@midwest.social actually banned someone with the rational that they were reporting calls to violence.

It really feels like the mod tools of lemmy need to be a bit more fine grained. A button to ignore all further reports from a person would have gone a long way here.

Libbity lib lib

Who tf is this? Elmer Fudd?

Usually if numerous frivolous reports were getting on someone's nerves they would warn you first. I'm guessing there was a big backlog to clear around certain comments. Thanks for making reports, even if I wouldn't completely agree with the threshold you use, personally.

"Libbity lib lib..." is a non-reason for a community ban, the admin in question would be better off being honest and just ban you from the instance with the reason "i'm tired of getting your stupid reports", and be done with it.

It's fine for an admin to run things the way they want, but handling it in this unclear way reflects poorly on them, and the silly reason just shows how much someone can be stuck up their own ass.

'Libbity lib lib'

How utterly bizarre

PTB

Also in case anyone was wondering, the “victim” wasn’t Brian Thompson or any other CEO. He’s already dead (lol) and I specifically can say for sure I have intentionally never reported a comment about him because of my personal sympathy with the oppressed individuals under his watch. Again I don’t remember who it was. :/

If seahorse had put a rule regarding his preference in the sidebar(s), a pinned post… or even reached out or anything…

…Well I wouldn’t be making this post lmao. As it stands I was banned for a “rule” that’s entirely undocumented.

!theonion@sh.itjust.works

Probably worth boycotting the main onion community and using this secondary one.

the secondary one was made in the past in response to shitty moderation on midwest.social affecting their onion community, so this isn’t a one time thing, it’s a patterm.

Fucking mods, there should be a way for people of that instance to vote kick shitty mods.

I understand what you're saying, but violence is necessary.

Peaceful protest is all but impossible and uneffective in the current political landscape.

I don't think we can take back our world through political means anymore. The rich have been waging a culture war and winning it. And if you don't believe me, just look at the fascist tilt in recent elections.

I'd love to be proven wrong but the longer I look at the situation, the more it seems like a return to the guillotine is the way to go.

I’m just aware that calls to violence are against most instances

I'm not sure if this is true. At least is not true for the midwest.social instance and, according to the lateral bar of your instance, it seems it's also not forbidden in lemmy.cafe

If they had their account flowed with similar reports and is a temporal ban: YDI. If their requested you to stop sending frivolous reports: YDI.

Other cases: PTB

I've noticed this behavior coming from that instance, and I think I know which admin is doing it. He seems very unhinged and reactive. Definitely PTB.

I would recommend people fully divorce from that instance. Meaning not just move their accounts if they're on it but also avoid the communities on it. Since this idiot will likely continue doing this shit, and having a different account but using the same communities doesn't mean a whole lot.

Correct me if I’m wrong, isn’t this a bit of an abuse of federation? [...] By banning users for reporting content that may violate our local instance rules, [other admins are] making our local instances harder to moderate for our admins. ([...] but until Lemmy has the option to only report to local admins versus local & federated authorities, this may not be the best strategy?)

Idk if "abuse of federation" is the right term, but it's definitely something. A more simplistic example might be things like different instances having different rules on what is and isn't considered NSFW. If you local instance is more strict (lewd = NSFW) but the other instance more loose (nude = NSFW), then the other instance might view your reports as spam. I'm not entirely sure what a good approach is to this while maintaining a simple UX. My current understanding (which might be a little wrong, please correct me if I'm wrong and I'll update the comment) is that reports get sent to three groups.

1. The reported content's community's moderators.
2. The reported content's creator's instance's admins. This is the one I'm least sure about.
3. The reporter's instance's admins.