So I try to make heads or tails of this situation. I got randomly banned from a community where I posted a youtube video showing something from a Convention. Then I wanted to post a question today but realised that I couldn’t since I was banned. That community is sadly the biggest of all Star Citizen communities (the next one would be from lemmy.world)

I took a look at the Mod log and see the following line in it:

So no clean up of violating comments or posts, just a strict out ban.

The community has a pretty standard ruleset:

further, the moderator @Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ml hasn’t posted anything since a year, so what gives here, or was it some other mod that was able to declare the ban?

  • Lvxferre
    2·
    2 months ago

    It’s a bunch of little things together:

    • Cuba often being used as boogeyman when criticising communists, typically without mentioning all things dragging the Caribbean down (regardless of Castro and Guevara);
    • the fact that you’re clearly not a communist, based on how you used the word;
    • usage of negatively charged words, such as “take over” and “hostile”;
    • the predictive part of your comment being already mentioned by other users, over and over, leaving the point of your comment to be just voicing your opinion=judgment.

    Together they make your “like Cuba” immediately read as “bad”, even if you were trying to be as neutral as possible.

    And at the end of the day, no matter the subject, it’s almost impossible to be truly neutral and not cast any sort of judgment. We do this all the time, often without even realising it.

    [Just to be clear: I am not defending the .ml admins and their bullshit removal of your comment as if it was bigotry. It is not bigotry, nor it should be removed as such. OK?]

    • Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.winEnglish
      32·
      2 months ago

      Didn’t think you were defending .ml admins. I was curious how my statement could be construed as judgmental. I was genuinely trying to be neutral in my statement and your criticism helps me see how I could improve it in the future.

      • Lvxferre
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yup, I get it - that’s why I focused on how it reads, not on your intentions. I believe you when you say that you were trying to be neutral.