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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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Banned over fish joke (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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 [email protected], 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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

After the 'update' I'm still confused how that is even worth a 6 day ban from the vegan community.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

They also walked that back a bit after.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Right but 6 days for that makes vegans look absolutely nuts.

Inb4 I'm banned for being anti vegan I'm literally 20 years vegan

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

But fair when they are gill-ty

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That's quite extreme. PTB.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

much appreciated, that makes more sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry about that, I definitely ate the onion in that situation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Hey, misunderstandings happen. I also jumped the gun a bit by posting in PTB first rather than contacting you directly first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

That makes more sense :D I withdraw my PTB for a BPR since it does seem you misunderstood their comment.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

The mod in common across all these servers is @[email protected] 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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