Why can't I comment or vote on midwest.social posts?

AFAIK it has always been this way. I don't think I've been banned from an entire instance, but who knows? If I have, I wasn't told about it. Do they only allow interaction from people registered to their instance?

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ptz@dubvee.org · 31 pts · 1y (11 replies)
Voyajer@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 1y (10 replies)

reason: Lib

lmao

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 28 pts · 1y (3 replies)

oh my god, what a snowflake mod. Not even a real reason, I have banned people from my instance. Reason? Racism. Homophobia. Transphobia. Never "republican".

What's weird is I have definitely been very liberal over there, I am somewhat active in !iowa@midwest.social and have never seen anything. Do the admins just have one snowflake mod?

can@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The admin himself seems to have an attitude problem.

Edi: context

Maeve@kbin.earth · 11 pts · 1y

Wait, they said nothing productive was coming from the thread, including themselves, then locked it? I'm a little confused, what was the ban for?

Furball@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y

They mean “lib” in the leftist way, as another word for capitalist

can@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 1y (2 replies)

It's not loading for me. Is that all it says?

If so that's strike two for me WRT that place.

!theonion@sh.itjust.works just in case

Maeve@kbin.earth · -2 pts · 1y (1 reply)
can@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 1y

Thanks, but this is essentially the equivalent of telling me to refresh again.

Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me · 17 pts · 1y (2 replies)

And the instance's sidebar:

A lemmy server for, but not limited to, leftists in the Midwest USA

empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 1y

yay more tankies in disguise

Maeve@kbin.earth · 10 pts · 1y

Welcome Midwest social members to other instances, when they come. They were always very welcoming to me and I am grieved that this is happening.

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 31 pts · 1y

I commented once on one of that instance's communities when an instance admin was mass banning people for ridiculous reasons and was told by some of the mods that all I was doing was "giving them work" by reporting violations of their own rules. Ever since, I've had them blocked.

Seeing the reason for why you're banned tells me I made the right choice.

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y

Looks like you got banned for 1 year 2 months ago.

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=418105

can@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1y

This technically violates rule #5 but I feel like it's a valuable information and discussion to have available.