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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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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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  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
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Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.

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Comment and thread in question: https://lemmy.world/comment/23138585

Ban from that community, memes@lemmy.ml:

Rule 1 of said community: Be civil and nice.

Rule 1 of said instance: No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.

I was clearly not bigoted in any manner, and I believe more civil than the way I was treated, was it the Code of Conduct? Excerpts:

Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude.

Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or implementation choice carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom a right answer.

I think I was kind with the people I disagreed with, even if they could not be in return, yet those comments (some including ableist slurs) remain. I think this is enough to demonstrate it is merely a difference in ideology which motivated the ban. Well, bans, because it seems they copied and pasted the same ban in all the communities they have access to:

It's not a general lemmy.ml ban, just those in particular.

I understand this kind of behavior in safe space communities that don't want outsiders bellyaching about the pragmatism of electoral politics, but that's not the case in any of the communities I've been banned from, nor is it a part of the instance rules or CoC.

PTB or triggered shitlib? Not an exclusive or, of course.

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I can't actually see what your [deleted] comments say but even if they were objectionable to their rules in that community, revoking your access to other communities entirely irrelevant to memes@lemmy.ml seems completely PTB.

Especially as you've got BrainInTheBox there running rampant, as usual.

[–] homes@piefed.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

IIRC, on lemmy instances, there is no actual "instance-wide ban" feature. to do a ban like that, you have to get banned from all of the communities you're subscribed to via some scripted tool, so this is how it shows up. this is one of the improvements the platforms like mBin and PieFed have included in their code. apparently, it's still "coming soon" in Lemmy's code.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yes, it is possible abbotsbury copped an instance ban and thus was banned from all lemmy.ml communities they had previously posted to. Note that the weird way instance bans are handled has been solved on Piefed.

I didn't know Mbin also did it though.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lemmy 1.0 addresses the issue, when it comes out instance bans on Lemmy will work the same way they do on Piefed now.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lemmy 1.0 will come out the same day China achieves communism.

[–] homes@piefed.world 1 points 1 week ago

exactly. as I have never run a lemmy instance, I don't know what the admin tools look like, but I read someone describe it in a comment here several weeks ago.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

Yeah BitB was pretty crazy, seemingly waiting around to reply instantly up and down the thread even when I was replying to others.