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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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[–] Forester@pawb.social 20 points 16 hours ago

I clocked Bert and Ernie as a gay couple as a five year old.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 50 points 19 hours ago

PTB, obviously.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 18 hours ago

I'm going to say that's not a dad joke, but it's fucking hilarious. That said, the stated reason for removing it is idiotic.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 32 points 18 hours ago

Wtf? 10000% PTB.

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Reddit has been certailing speach for a while now, I pointed out on the Canadian politics sub that I'd notice their were quite a few more posts about the national post then their were other Canadian news agencys and I got banned imidiatly for it.

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[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today 7 points 15 hours ago

Unfortunately, some Lemmy instances allow conservatives. Wherever you have conservatives, you have bigotry.

Conservatism is cancer. It should be eradicated. Especially in positions of authority or any place where free speech is valued.

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 22 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (35 children)

Split on this. The assumption 5 year olds couldn't get this joke because its funny to be in a gay marriage but not yourself gay seems bigoted. Kids could get that just as easily as jokes about straight couples. At the same time rule says no jokes with death or sex. PTB I.M.O.

Edit: On reflection placing sexuality in the category with drugs, death, and racism seems rough

[–] voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

There is no law forcing sex and marriage to be intertwined, its just an assumption since they normally do. This joke mentions nothing about sex in the marriage, just a play on which genders each in the marriage are attracted to.since most people forget bi people exist

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[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 4 points 13 hours ago

As someone that got called gay all the time in literally kindergarten as a form of bullying, yes kids know what gay/straight are. Fuck Lemmy.world. Nazi bar ass instance.

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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Seems to me that even if you're trying to keep all mentions of sex/gender out of DadJokes (what is a Dad anyway and how is he different from a Mom?) you should at least make a suggestion that OP send their post over to UncleJokes, which needs more content.

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[–] redrumBot@lemmy.ml 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

~~PTB &~~ bigotry

~~1. Lemmy.world ban kids to use their instance, also users of other instances. (Or at least it was their policy)~~

  1. There are marriage jokes in the community.

Edited: The requirement is in the comm rules, not to protect kids, but for the level of complexity of the joke. I would suggest to the mod to rethink that rule when it can be use to hidden oppresed collectives.

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