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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).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

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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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Got banned from !energy@slrpnk.net for pointing out that it was a big reach to say that wind power is included in the term "solar energy". The mod referenced a temp ban from two years ago? Tried to say I've got a "history" of trolling and harassment, as well that I "doxxed" user DMs which also happened two years ago. I even, at the time, talked with the mod involved and reposted that comment without the DM screenshots. Like I don't have an entirely squeaky clean modlog but it's only a single page over two years? What the fluff? Like it's a two week ban and I could hardly care but jeeze this feels like overreach.

https://slrpnk.net/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=518329

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

It was a mistake to approve your application in the first place given how you behave with your other accounts. When we noticed that mistake we took a while to discuss this internally with the other admins and community mods and ultimatly decided that we prefer not to be associated with you.

[–] UniversalMonk@anarchist.nexus 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

I just find it strange, though. I fit your demographic pretty well (solar power, off-grid living, anti-authority, anti-capitalist, punk, etc.) and never broke any rules on your instance, yet it still became an issue to be "associated with" me. I even had a cool-ass banner solarpunk graphic for my banner that I made just for that instance!! lol

What about my behavior caused problems for you? I’ve been on dbzer0 (https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/UniversalMonk
) and sh.itjust.works (https://sh.itjust.works/u/UniversalMonk
) for almost a year with no issues. I haven’t changed anything about how I act, what I post, or my attitude, and they’ve had no problems with me at all.

Even the stuff I became “infamous” for on .world was mostly election related, because I voted 3rd party (Socialist). If I made those exact posts today, they probably wouldn't cause any stir at all.

So I’m honestly curious: why can I be fine on these two big instances with no issues, yet yours had a problem with me?

I don't want you to think I'm grilling you or taking anything away from OP.

But I just find the whole thing curious, especially since I fall into what seems like one of your core demographics. No biggie tho, I found my forever home with my dbzer0 crew here.

[–] Blaze@lazysoci.al 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

sh.itjust.works (https://sh.itjust.works/u/UniversalMonk ) for almost a year with no issues

You got banned for ban evasion on several communities and instances

[–] UniversalMonk@anarchist.nexus 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I meant, no issues as in no issues causing trouble for my instance. The admins of the instances I'm on had no issues with me.

Also, I didn't even post in most of those subs that were banning me. Please point out something that you thought was troubling and ban-worthy.

I loved the reason was: known zero-sum narcisstic troll/spam user. I added that to my user profile description. I'm not smart enough to know what it means, but it sounds badass!! LMAO

Lemmy is still way pissed that I voted for third party in the election. :)

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