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Banned over fish joke (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

UPDATE: The Unbans are showing up on modlog now.:

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~~I have traded the month-long ban in the many communities for a 6-day ban in vegan@lemmy.dbzero.com, 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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[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 3 months ago

That's quite extreme. PTB.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 months ago

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

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 3 months ago

also not justifiable. your bans are ridiculous

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago

How does someone accidentally ban people across multiple communities and instances? Is there a ban from everything I moderate button?

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There's 2 ticks on the Tesseract menu when you want to ban an user from interacting with your community without directly looking for their comments and I accidentally hit the bottom option instead of the top one.

Take at that what you will.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'll bet that's handy for taking care of spammers!

[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 3 months ago

much appreciated, that makes more sense.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 32 points 3 months ago

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

[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 3 months ago

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

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Endmaker@ani.social 56 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Y'know, concentrating power in the hands of a single person / group defeats the purpose of decentralisation.

I can understand if the damage is limited to communities within a single instance, but when a ban is so far-reaching - across so many instances - it makes me wonder what's the point of choosing Lemmy over, say, Reddit.

It's still the same problem again, just with different people in charge - like Bluesky vs Twitter.

[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 months ago

lemmy fixes admin abuse, not mod abuse.

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[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 3 months ago

Yeah, the problem of modreach is definitely not a solved problem. The other problem, of all discourse being directly controllable from on high by a profit-driven company, however, is solved by lemmy. I believe that was the original issue lemmy was meant to handle. And that problem does seem to be solved. We'll just have to handle the problem of public official reach the way we normally would.

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[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 40 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The mod in common across all these servers is @Sunshine@lemmy.ca 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.

[-] felbane@lemmy.world 47 points 3 months ago

It's OK Sunshine, JayDee's made out of styrofoam.

[-] xep@fedia.io 34 points 3 months ago

I'm sorry, but you're banned from every community I moderate now.

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[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 39 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yikes, a mass ban over multiple communities for that? PTB

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 34 points 3 months ago

The ban across multiple communities is not intentional. I just meant to ban them from !vegan@lemmy.dbzer0.com. I was not used to Tesseract's ui. But even that was definitely jumping the gun upon rereading the joke.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 months ago

Why would you ban them from !vegan though, considering the comment was made in another community entirely? Even if we assume the comment was serious, you're basically saying the rules of the !vegan comm extend across the fediverse.

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[-] nimble 39 points 3 months ago

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

[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 3 months ago

They also walked that back a bit after.

[-] nimble 39 points 3 months ago

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

[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 22 points 3 months ago

Sunshine is absolutely nuts.

[-] pressedhams 13 points 3 months ago

How do you know if someone is vegan? They’ll tell you.

[-] nimble 20 points 3 months ago

Original joke. I mentioned it here because it is relevant. The mod in question power trips and lacks good judgment.

But thanks for that hams

[-] pressedhams 12 points 3 months ago

Thanks. I’ll be here all week.

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[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 35 points 3 months ago

PTB, if you were banned from vegan Comms I wouldn't really care, but a joke getting you banned from multiple non related Comms over several instances? Now that is crazy

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

I thought i had a perm ban from them when i called them hypocrites for not caring for the feelings of vegetables. Saddly it was not

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[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 3 months ago
[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

That is golden 😂

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Wow, they're just blatantly banning people who said something they disagree with now.

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[-] remon@ani.social 27 points 3 months ago

Oh yeah ... that mod. Not the first time they did that, but this might be the pettiest one, yet.

PTB for sure.

[-] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 22 points 3 months ago
[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I did see that. She is a pretty active mod it seems.

[-] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 months ago

Well at least you got a great story to tell when people says the /s is unnecessary. :)

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

I didn't know PETA modded communities on Lemmy

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[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago

This platform just doesn't get satire or sarcasm, does it?

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[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I honestly think substantial chunk of Lemmy mods are worse than these on Reddit. Just look at pro Israeli censorship on feddit or some ridiculous world mods actions.

[-] spooky2092 13 points 3 months ago

Agreed, some mods are absolutely mental. Like, I recently got a two week ban from a news comm over an unsourced quote. The source of the quote in question?

The fucking comment I replied to! What, do they expect people to know to quote the user they replied to? I mean, that would require the comm to have posted rules instead of a PTB....

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