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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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7 community ban for saying Democrats are better than Republicans (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by abbotsbury@lemmy.world to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[–] tsiad_mordecai_miktros@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

ptb thank you for calling out radical liberals like braininabox and desaline

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[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

.ml

There's your answer

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Things will always break down when the focus is only on the yin and not both the yin and yang. Wearing rose-coloured glasses only takes you so far. Sometimes you have to deal with the pus in order to clean the wound.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Disgusting analogy. But ya know what? It's accurate, so good job! lol

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Well, there's a problem here. Problems

First is that I suspect there was both a community and instance ban since the timing is more or less instant on the c/s that aren't the one where the comment was from. You're also tagged as being both instance and community banned in that community when viewed via browser.

So, the extra c/s aren't useful for PTB purposes since an instance ban does that. It comes up a lot.

Anyway, it's .ml, so there's also the fact that it's kinda like jumping into a pool you've seen someone pissing in, then complaining about the urine content. Yeah, there's a lot of PTB and ptb-like modding there. However, it also tends to happen on very well known lines, so there's a factor where making any political comment that isn't 100% toeing the line is partially on the user. They're absolutely zealots regarding some subjects, so if you engage on those subjects, you can't complain much about the ban coming.

Since it's a temp ban, which is gentle from .ml, I'm more surprised about that than a mod there issuing a ban over a democrat defense.

Is it still bullshit that you can get banned for an otherwise on topic and politely phrased political view on a thread under a political post? Absolutely. And you should likely block the instance and be done with them rather than engage again once the ban is over. This is regular there, and expecting otherwise just isn't realistic.

So, yeah, PTB. But also, your comments there amount to rage baiting for that instance, even though I don't think that was your intent.

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