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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 from .world comm shortly after banning .world mod (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Diva@lemmy.ml to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I don't expect this to play particularly well here, and maybe I'm just being conspiratorial, but here goes:

I banned jordanlund@lemmy.world from !transgender@lemmy.blahajzone earlier today- he literally posted a matt walsh youtube link and was being otherwise transphobic in a space where that gets you banned. (link)

one of jordanlunds removed comments w/ matt walsh video:

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the reason I put down was 'trolling about neopronouns' I stand by that, it was violating instance rules and was unacceptable behavior from a moderator of another instance.

Shortly after that I got banned from news@lemmy.world for 'trolling'. To be clear, jordanlund does not moderate news@lemmy.world, but the timing struck me as an odd coincidence.

The .world thread in question (link)

I was expressing my actual opinion/position on this, if anything the post I was replying to should be considered a rule 1 violation implying leftists are russian/under russian sway:

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The removed comments that I was banned (permanent) for were just me being earnest about my position, which you're welcome to disagree with.

I don't view protecting my rights as something worth sacrificing other people for, even if they're on the other side of the planet. You can be mad at me or hate me for that, but I'm not trolling.

People replying felt it was reasonable to call me an idiot for example, yet another example of selective moderation. on .world.

I don't have any conclusive proof that my banning Jordanlund and then getting banned are related other than the suspicious timing, I welcome clarification.

Anyway in the interest of neutrality and transparency I submit both my ban and jordanlunds for review.

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 3 days ago

Jordanlund is petty lil bitch so this checks out purely from trust me bro angle << debunked

But at the same time, if y'all are banning each other, y'all kinda deserve each other.

Matt walsh is feces tho, no doubt.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

Strong IRC vibes, nostalgia trip FTW.

[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

If we're assuming it was a retaliation ban- The powers that be at lemmy.world would be wise to nip this type of thing in the bud now and replace those actively working to deceive and lash out at others from their team.

Eventually people will stop giving the owners/admins the benefit of the doubt when controversial things like this happen. What happens then? The time/money/resources are being thrown away to enable a few people's egos and eventually the users will tire of it and abandon ship. It seems like we're drawing closer to that every day.

One way or another the true colors will always come out. Interesting times ahead.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why are people so mad about someone using "drag" as a pronoun?

Is it hurting drag? No. Is it hurting anyone else? No.

I have also seen people say drag is a troll. I cant confirm nor deny that since i have only seen a couple of drags comments, but most people who have said something bad about dragonrider talk about the pronouns, not the person

[–] socsa@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"I identify as a dragon fucker" feels a lot like "I identify as an attack helicopter."

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[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're just dumbass transphobes. It's not that complicated.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

They just mask how much trans people make them feel "icky" by targeting normalized people, and masking it as "I'm just telling a troll to fuck off."

If you don't like Drag, just block Drag. Don't announce it, just block and move on.

"But drag isn't a pronoun!!" Who cares? How does it impact you?

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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

Interesting case. Not giving any opinion right now, but as always, !world@quokk.au is an alternative to the LW one.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works -3 points 3 days ago (6 children)

You shouldn't use your mod account to post political hot-takes. Create another account to do that with unless you think it represents and promotes the community you moderate.

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Did you ping/DM/etc ada or any of the other LBZ admins about this? I don’t know how closely the admins read the mod log, this seems something worth being aware of considering this is the second time in a few days one of the LW “Community Team” mods (still don’t know what that means, other than they are higher in the hierarchy than regular mods) has made a hinky statement about neopronouns.

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