Appealing the ban of yogthos@lemmy.ml from worldnews@lemmy.ml due to "spam"

According to the modlog for !worldnews, @yogthos (display name: ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆) was banned by the instance admin @davel on March 20, 2024 08:52:45PM for “spam”. Upon examining the most recent 119 posts in that community (6 pages from lemmy.ml/c/worldnews?dataType=Post&sort=New to lemmy.ml/c/worldnews?dataType=Post&pageCursor=Pc9…), I have found that yogthos is indeed the top poster in this past week, contributing to 19 out of 119 or almost 16% of the posts, with the second most posts coming from @naturalgasbad at 15 posts.

Just being the top poster over the past week or so doesn’t make someone a spammer, if we examine yogthos’ recent 19 posts, we can find that they vary in topics and sources. I hope that davel or someone can explain this ban or undo it if it was a mistake.

List of 19 posts, ordered by most recent: (Number of posts on each page examined: 5+3+4+2+2+3=19)

Vietnam seeks death for tycoon in $12bn fraud case

bangkokpost.com/…/prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-…

China keeps on finding ways to hurt USA Inc.

businessinsider.com/china-has-found-another-way-t…

Another Boeing emergency: Delta Airlines 737 plane makes emergency landing after one of the engines caught fire moments after taking off in Aruba

www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/…/ar-BB1kdWb9

Symbolism or Strategy? Ukraine Battles to Retain Small Gains.

www.nytimes.com/2024/…/ukraine-russia-south.html

IDF chief Herzi Halevi expected to resign later this year, Israeli reports say

www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-792885

Brazil’s Bolsonaro is indicted for first time over alleged falsification of his own vaccination data

apnews.com/…/bolsonaro-brazil-federal-police-indi…

The Attritional Art of War: Lessons from the Russian War on Ukraine

rusi.org/…/attritional-art-war-lessons-russian-wa…

UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat

aljazeera.com/…/un-weather-agency-issues-red-aler…

Lindsey Graham, visiting Kyiv, urges Ukraine to pass mobilization law

washingtonpost.com/…/lindsey-graham-visiting-kyiv…

China is now visa-free for Europeans: Take a high-speed train to futuristic cities and fabulous food

euronews.com/…/china-is-now-visa-free-for-europea…

What Might the US Owe the World for Covid-19?

commondreams.org/…/covid-19-gain-of-function-us-r…

Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Rio de Janeiro

aljazeera.com/…/photos-record-heat-index-of-62-3c…

China’s Global South exports surge in first two months

asiatimes.com/…/chinas-global-south-exports-surge…

America Pulls Back from Ukraine

www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/…/ukraine-us-aid.html

Niger revokes military accord with US, junta spokesperson says

reuters.com/…/niger-revokes-military-accord-with-…

Here’s How The Russians Are Taking Out Ukraine’s M-1 Abrams Tanks

forbes.com/…/heres-how-russian-troops-are-taking-…

Funding failure puts US at China’s high-tech mercy

asiatimes.com/…/funding-failure-puts-us-at-chinas…

Chinese buyers cancel, postpone Australian wheat buys amid global surplus

reuters.com/…/chinese-buyers-cancel-or-postpone-a…

I guess we now know who is all behind those Sinophobic anti-China posts online.

theverge.com/…/cia-china-fake-social-media-spying

davel, (edited )
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

Thank you, @qwename for your effort post, and thank you, fans of @yogthos.

That was a ban in error due to the rash of automated spam from “ThuleanPerspective“ accounts. It has been undone.

chesmotorcycle,
@chesmotorcycle@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Lift the ban! Yogthos shares some really good stuff.

fartington,

I don’t even like the user but they don’t spam, just post dumb shit and comment idiotically.

zkrzsz,

Maybe a wrong ban? There’s someone doing spam recently, I noticed the spam user posted in yog’s thread.

The spammer is back again hexbear.net/post/2110054

davel,
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

👆

happybadger,
@happybadger@hexbear.net avatar

Even on my Lemmy.ml account there doesn’t seem to be a point counter. There’s nothing to gain from the volume of your posts like on reddit and Yogthos isn’t posting their own website like those gaming website bot communities we allow. More posts just means more opportunity for discussion and more coverage of stories I wouldn’t otherwise see on here.

D61,

I had to read this twice before I realized it wasn’t about lemmy.world.

This is some bullshit.

eleitl,

This is indeed an outrage. I support opposing the ban.

frightful_hobgoblin,

Yogthos was fine.

He’s obviously reading an RSS feed or similar and reposting (my criticism would be… are you even reading the articles you post?) but that’s not cause for a banban.

D61,

Interesting articles probably don’t need to be “read” by the poster before they’re posted.

I’m a lazy person, and stick to my echo chambers pretty solidly so having a bit of the “outside” trickle in is fine.

frightful_hobgoblin,

Why is read in quotes lol

D61,

Well… sometimes people actually and honestly thoroughly read and article. The might even go back and reread it.

Other people read an article but by read they skim the first few sentences of each paragraph and skip to the next one unless it seems like the rest of the paragraph might have more useful context.

Other, other people will read as far as the headline or mmaaayyybbbee the first few paragraphs and decide to drop a post about it.

So… “read” instead of read seemed more appropriate in this context.

Ram_The_Manparts,
@Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net avatar

Yeah, this ban seems uncalled for.

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