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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[–] 65 points 1 year ago (13 children)
  • [+] -21 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    I meant to just ban them from the vegan community on db0. I will reverse this.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    How does someone accidentally ban people across multiple communities and instances? Is there a ban from everything I moderate button?

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not everything is done with bad intentions.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    There's 2 ticks on the Tesseract menu when you want to ban an user from interacting with your community without directly looking for their comments and I accidentally hit the bottom option instead of the top one.

    Take at that what you will.

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    much appreciated, that makes more sense.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    the... scales... of justice are often harsh

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  • [+] 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] [S] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They also walked that back a bit after.

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  • [+] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How do you know if someone is vegan? They’ll tell you.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (23 children)

    Yikes, a mass ban over multiple communities for that? PTB

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Ada used to do this too before people started speaking up

    Mods and admins will always find a way to trip over the smallest amount of power.

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  • [+] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Post:

    Commentor:

    Admin: "Wow, this person seems like a piece of shit. Ban"

    Banned Commentator: climbs up on cross "I am being persecuted to death."

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    The ban across multiple communities is not intentional. I just meant to ban them from !vegan@lemmy.dbzer0.com. I was not used to Tesseract's ui. But even that was definitely jumping the gun upon rereading the joke.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Why would you ban them from !vegan though, considering the comment was made in another community entirely? Even if we assume the comment was serious, you're basically saying the rules of the !vegan comm extend across the fediverse.

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  • [+] -17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The op’s comment was fine. My thought process was to avoid problematic users from entering a community they’re not ready to respectfully engage with, no one should have to explain themselves to the individuals who are engaging in bad faith. Notice how the bans are temporary.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Sunshine, this is problematic on so many levels, I'm not even sure where to start :/

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not a fan of preemptive strikes for comments or posts made in different communities..

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If the posts in other communities show an intent to cause disruption for a specific topic, they do make sense. As in they take the initiative to cause disruption, posting bacon pics in a vegan or vegetarian community, going into an LGBTQ+ space to spread homophobic or other hateful messaging.

    Banning because they made a joke in some other unrelated sub that could just be sarcasm? That is just fishing for users to ban.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If the posts in other communities show an intent to cause disruption for a specific topic, they do make sense.

    I'd rather have the ability to flag these potentially disruptive users and have their posts being held up in a moderation queue for those communities.

    That way if they behave, they can participate, if not they at least the posts / comments were filtered away and didn't reach the entire userbase, minimizing harm while giving them the benefit of the doubt.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I think that would be good for people who say things that mods speculate are signs of being malicious, like saying that eating meat is fine in some other random community being assumed to mean the person can't handle themselves in a vegetarian or vegan community, but aren't completely sure.

    I think meat eating is fine. I also don't go into vegan or vegetarian communities to shit on their approach, but I do visit them for the recopies! Putting me in a filter is more work for them compared to banning me, so I don't think that mods would take advantage of that feature if their assumption is malicious behavior.

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  • [–] [S] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    The mod in common across all these servers is @Sunshine@lemmy.ca and her other alternate accounts on various servers.

    Sunshine, if you see this, this is a pretty overkill response from you over what is a joke about the lengths people go to to lie to themselves. If you're thinking it was a bad joke still deserving a ban, at least diminish the sentence length down from a month to a few days instead. I will edit the post to communicate the lessened ban length.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sunshine has a history of power tripping, and is able to avoid attention for it by using alts. As Beaver, they put the lemmy.world vegan community in trouble with admins over that vegan cat food drama, then later banned respected members of the community for "downvoting vegan comments". They were ostensibly de-modded when another mod spoke up, but if memory serves they actually still had their Sunshine alt on the mod list months later.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 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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