Got my account banned because I posted a photo that I uploaded to imgbb.com with the reason being “blacklisted URL”.

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    9 months ago

    In the past imgbb was used to post CSAM to some communities so some instances remove links to images hosted on it (or I guess ban the user in the instance you were on)

    Edit: seems like that was lemmy.world, reach out to their community team and ask to be unbanned

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      9 months ago

      Just found the post from someone having the same issue a week ago. It’s odd there is nowhere specified this list of blacklisted hosting services.

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        9 months ago

        And banned with no warning? Fucking powertripping mods all over again.

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          9 months ago

          Modding is a time consuming and often thankless job, this doesn’t sound like power tripping.

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            9 months ago

            Why not warning before banning for such stupid reason?

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              9 months ago

              Why not raise the request while being nice? You’d be surprised how much spam and scam I remove every day. So I wrote a bot that will do parts of it for me. The bot is not perfect and there will be false positives. If you contact the admins instead of calling them dicks, you might actually improve the Automods in use and prevent another false positive!