The subreddit mods have tarnished the reputation of ublock for me, unfortunately.

[thorn-cell]

They will lie to you, and then ban you for private conversations with them, claiming that your comments to them in a private chat are actually posts on the subreddit itself. Even when the whole thing is a misunderstanding! they dont care. they just want to use the hammer.

I have used ublock for nearly a decade, and these mods have tarnished its reputation for me. I only posted on that sub in a praiseworthy way of this project. But the power hungry mods and their egos have changed my opinion of the project unfortunately.

It needed to be said. Ublock is too important.

[uBlock-user]

@gothic-bum who is this guy and what incident is he talking about ?

[gothic-bum]

He made a few comments that were removed for violating the subreddit rules, and a notification was sent to him from the moderators for each removed comment that explained the reason for the removal – including the specific rules which were violated and a link to the removed comment.

He was also told by moderators that everyone is required to respect the subreddit rules if they want to participate there.

There was no ban at this point, and the notifications were provided to him as a courtesy.

He then decided to respond disrespectfully to the moderators with insults and profanity (which is a rule violation of the code of contact) so he was banned permanently and muted for 28 days.

Once the mute expired, he contacted the r/uBlockOrigin moderators (which was not a "private chat" to a particular moderator) and asked if his ban was permanent and the reasons for the ban. These were then provided to him and included quotes of his exact statements which led to the ban.

He was also told that no one is forcing him to participate in the subreddit, and that if he didn't respect the rules and how the subreddit is moderated he could look for help elsewhere.

The "misunderstanding" that he is referring to was the result of him realizing at some point during the back-and-forth conversation with moderators that he didn't fully read the content of the notifications for each of his removed comments (which included links to removed comments) and in his own words:

i see the issue here. you deleted TWO of my comments.. one right after another.. so when i saw the mail about the second comment being deleted, i thought i was being harassed about my reply to the first comment being deleted.

So essentially he felt his disrespectful comments and insults to the moderators were somehow justified because of his mistaken belief that he was somehow being harassed and personally targeted, and therefore his ban should be removed. At no point did he apologize for his comments.