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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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Just happened to check the modlog right after it happened. Weirded me out to see my username at the top.

Because I so rarely downvote posts, I remembered the one: https://lemmy.today/post/59636388

I downvoted it because there was no context, just a list of names. No evidence. No nothing. It looks like harassment or trying to inspire a brigade.

I'd take it up with the mod but the strange callout list without context + OP's extended modlog makes them someone I don't want to DM.

In case it wasn't obvious from my post history, no I'm not a zionist and I don't defend zionists.

I even upvoted one of their recent posts! I'm gonna go take that vote back right now.

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Being called a zionist and/or a fascist on lemmy is basically a welcome greeting. I have genuinely never been anywhere online where there is this level of purity testing.

[–] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

i've been called a liberal, zionist and a nazi in the same thread for saying platforming neo-nazis is fucked up even if they support palestine

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It doesn’t have to make sense as long as you’re silenced and shamed xD

[–] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

exactly. some people just want to throw out names

funnily, while people called me a liberal, zionist and a nazi in that thread, my only ban on the fediverse is for being a "tankie bootlicker". i have no idea what warranted that, i had never even heard of that random piefed community i got banned from before i accidentally checked my modlog and saw a ban.

it's the only punishment i've ever gotten on this platform and i have no idea what specifically caused it. that's in my moderation logs forever despite me taking very good care to not break any rules anywhere i go. oh well

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've checked both boxes now, plus I got called a lib in this thread. I'm three for three.

I don't know why you're getting downvoted when it's true, I've never been called any of these things before lemmy.

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There should be an official lemmy bingo card for these kinds of things xD judt so we can take the piss a little bit.

People don't like the truth, that's why they downvote. And same! I have literally hung out in all kinds of corners of the internet since I was a teen and I likewise have never received this level of verbal abuse as I have on lemmy.

The brilliance of this set up is also that if you try and voice your annoyance with the way you have been treated, everybody just automatically assume that you indeed is x-label they put on you and everything you say to defend yourself is then assumed to be malicious and proof that you are in fact a bigot or a fascist or whatever.

It is equally frustrating and amusing.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

I've been tempted to make one, but I'd need to field suggestions first. Being called a fascist would probably be the free space.