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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

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Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
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Banned over fish joke (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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UPDATE: The Unbans are showing up on modlog now.:

unban log screenshot

~~I have traded the month-long ban in the many communities for a 6-day ban in vegan@lemmy.dbzero.com, which is a more reasonable ban~~. this ban has also been lifted now. I appreciate the cooperation from the mod over this misunderstanding.

So it seems i've gotten a month-long ban in..... over 30 communities across lemmy.dbzer0.com, sopuli.xyz, lemmy.ca, programming.dev, and several others, for this comment here.

Screen cap of comment for posterity:

It's directly replying to a comment saying they can't imagine why anyone thought otherwise about fish feeling pain, which is reasonable. You might notice the quotation marks, because it's satirizing people's mental gymnastics about fishes' pain perception. It was meant in jest, exclusively.

It seems likely that a single mod took this joke wrong and chose to ban me on every community they have control over.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Seems weird that you got banned for a comment but the comment itself wasn't removed.

Anyway I think bans very often mean, "Your comment made me angry, so as a mod or admin I found a stick I can hit you with." And when it comes down to it, people who run websites don't have to publish anything they (or their proxies) don't like.

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago

The ban was for a different community. Sunshine saw their comment and went "that person sucks I'll ban them from my sub[s]"

I don't think she was a mod where the comment was made

Also she claims she accidentally hit "ban them from everywhere I moderate" instead of "also remove their posts and comments" so maybe the comment would have survived anyway

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[+] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Important distinction - when the government controls what you can say, it's censorship. When you control what people say on your own website it's called having a website.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Shout out to the time here that I suggested a mod block someone they didn't what to interact with and their response was "but as a kid I can't because I need to be able to see their comments" as if that makes using mod powers okay when you personally don't want to see something lol.

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