Edit: @[email protected] Contacted the moderator who did it on my behalf who admitted that this was a mistake, he sends his apologies. This incident though does highlight though the need for ban notifications as well as the need for a modmail system to contact community and site moderators.
I have left the post up with the original contents bellow as I feel it would be wrong to delete the post and rob people of the valuable information it contains, both in the post itself and in the comment section.
I messaged a mod from the community, not sure if that was the one who did it but this was weird. Not sure if it’s power-tripping probably a mistake but it’s certainly weird and seems like a knee jerk reaction since I didn’t have activity in those last 10 days (I checked for votes too). Also no other bans in the modlog for “sock puppet account” so I don’t even know why I would be singled out.
Why would someone think I was a sock puppet account? Because I have multiple accounts on different instances? Really weird…
Account is @[email protected], I didn’t post from that account since I try to keep each account on each separate instance (helps prevent accidental vote manipulation).
Yeah that is weird, an admin should be able to remove a local user’s comments or posts even if they are on remote communities.
Also the automatically applying local bans after site ban seems like a very hacky workaround and doesn’t work well when new communities are created since those won’t have the person’s ban in them. That’s why I really hope they work on including site bans in communities, that way we just wouldn’t need to worry about it.
Thing is you can with a site ban with content removal… but not by removing individual content