Oh! Did I get unbanned?
You probably did on account of the way Beaver (likely) banned you. Effectively, Beaver targeted downvoters with temp-bans, even though they didn’t have any comments or posts here. This goes against the typical ban process (I’m guessing she used an API request directly instead of the UI or an app that lets you do that), and the only means of unbanning I know of is to click the dropdown menu of a post/comment. So for most bans, I just had to accept whatever duration Beaver set since there was no comment to click, and no comment could be made due to the ban.
I could be wrong here, but I don’t think we as mods are allowed to view a list of banned users, which I think is a bit ridiculous on Lemmy’s part. Honestly, in general, I’ve found mod tools on Lemmy to be extremely disorganized, incomplete, and unintuitive.
There is the mod logs, but I can only view my most recent on page 1. Any subsequent page won’t load
Yeah, trying to figure out what Beaver did via the mod log and reach out to those affected was kind of a nightmare to a point where I just gave up (she banned so many people for ‘Rule 5’ because she was using MBin/KBin to view who voted on what).
@Sunshine you forgot adding an alt-text
Sorry about that! The alt text has been added. I wish Mlem had support for it but Voyager does!
Hey, Sunshine, I didn’t realize until now how fractured accessibility options are across Lemmy frontends. I’ve since amended the rule so that embedded images require alt-text (as this is just baked into the markdown) while posts with an image of text require alt-text if that’s more convenient or just a transcription in the body. Sorry about that.
I support that rule! We need more accessibility in the world!
