Pleasant Politics

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Politics without the jerks.

This community is watched over by a ruthless robot moderator to keep out bad actors. I don't know if it will work. Read !santabot@slrpnk.net for a full explanation. The short version is don't be a net negative to the community and you can post here.

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[META] UniversalMonk ban evasion (self.pleasantpolitics)

submitted 5 days ago by auk to c/pleasantpolitics

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UniversalMonk has been evading the bot's ban on him by posting from new accounts. That's ban evasion, which on most instances leads to an account-level ban, as far as I know.

I made a report, but just in case it blended in with the noise, I'm posting to let admins know that he's now ban evading from these new accounts. As much fun as he is to interact with, and a good test for the bot's throwaway account detection, I think Lemmy will be improved by nuking these accounts.

The accounts are UniversalMonk at lemm.ee, slrpnk.net, and sh.itjust.works. The first two ban evaded in !pleasantpolitics@slrpnk.net, the last one is merely connected to the person who did that.

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I think I'll make separate posts to the meta communities for the other two servers. I'm not sure which admin is appropriate for this.

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[–] Five 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I appreciate your transparency. It sounds like this was an honest mistake and not intentional ban evasion. It is true that we hold solarpunks to higher standards of discourse than you may be used to on other platforms. The members may be right to be concerned. I understand many of the people you've sparred with in the past have not engaged in good internet etiquette either. But you could really help us out as admins by making a commitment to good-faith debate, at least while using this account.

I don't consider your participation in this thread ban evasion. This is not the kind of discussion that should be moved to direct messages. If @auk wants to ban you, we can move this discussion to !meta.

[–] auk 1 points 5 days ago

I didn't even think about this. No, I don't consider UniversalMonk's participation in this post to be ban evasion. I'm fine giving him a chance to defend himself, if he wants to. It sounds like he's done now with what he had to say.

The decision to give him an account, while he's still arguing vociferously that there was nothing wrong with the conduct that got him site-banned before, is confusing.

[–] UniversalMonk 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Thank you. I was just concerned that posting here would make the problem worse.

And thank you for the explanation. I am fine not posting to this community, I was just concerned since he was trying to get me banned from this instance and contacted admins for other instances as well.

The whole reason I made this my home instance is because of the higher standards. And why I am fighting to stay on here.

I'm happy to move on and I consider the situation resolved.