News just came out that Nicholas Hoult is joining the season 2 Harry Potter cast.
I like him and a lot of things he’s been in and didn’t see it anywhere on Lemmy yet, so I posted it to lemmy.world’s News community.
Post was a link to the article that first broke the news, used it’s title as my post title, followed all instance and community rules.
Post was removed as “not news” and I was temp banned for “multiple rule violations.” Of course the mod can’t list what rules those would be, because it didn’t violate any of them. If the News community only allows posts on certain news topics then it should specify those in it’s rules.
This is actually worse than Reddit. At least Reddit has so many users that when mods keep doing things like this it creates enough drama that they stop or end up replaced. Lemmy mods seem to remove anything they personally don’t like and ban anyone who questions them.
Lemmings can be weird about entertainment and pop culture news. Some think it’s beneath them and not worthy of being posted.
There’s a few popculture and television communities that would be better fits for your original post.
That news community is one of two communities I have blocked. The mods there, at least one, do have some power-tripping tendencies.
Edit: Ah yeah it was JonsJava that banned you. I’d avoid him like the plague. It was probably your username that got him hot under the collar.
It actually wasn’t the name.
They have contributed in other communities I moderate, without issue.
What was the issue with the post in question?
It was reported numerous times for being off topic.
Pop culture really needs it’s own community. I think it deserves to be here, but in a place people want it.
I try to let the community help decide what belongs. The more diverse the reports, the more likely it doesn’t belong. That’s why we have the “… at moderators discretion” in the rule.
Then it might be prudent to add no pop culture to the rules.
As it is, you allow some and not others and that’s confusing for users.
So why the ban?
How did you see which it was? Using the website when I check it just tells me “mod.”
Someone screenshotted what they could see when looking at your post history. It showed JonsJava as the mod that banned you.
Right. That was very wise.