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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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Joined 40min ago. Only trans hate on the comments and complaining about mods. Get a more healthy hobby.
They seem to have a vendetta against this one mod...
They had a bunch of angry accusations deleted.
Weird because while that mod clealry does people wrong, this person angry at them seems to be rather unhinged... (Unless it was all true).
Clearly someone is continuously registering brand new accounts on quokk.au, just to come here, and shit on DraconicNEO.
Maybe this isn't universal, but on my mobile client... accounts get a kind of auto flair on their birthday, including 'year 0', creation date.
So, there's a chance that an admin of quokk.au could pull the ips of those account registrations, potentially other info, and there's a chance they're not done through a vpn or some other kind of proxy.
God, these kinds of shitshows... what a ride.
Nevermind no proof og dragon_neo did it...
Proof?
~~I am beginning to suspect that OP is the quokka.au user considering that's been their repeated conclusion/accusation for no reason.~~
~~They came here with greivances against them and are now making more even while all this is going on.~~
8h edit to align with OPs retractions.
I was wrong actually, wasn't them afaik
Alright, that's good then. This stuff gets weird and awkward fast, and it wasn't exactly a fun scenario if I were right.
Yeah I have the same suspicion
I was wrong actually, wasn't them afaik
Proof from thee, but not from me? will_steal_your_username is asking for proof when they already got a direct reply that hints at why they believe so (they started all spamming at the same time).
Considering OP didn't seem to know who banned them, are you also claiming BootyEnthusiast, the user who provided who it was, was in on it? Should be easy to prove, since they are also on dbzer0.
Their comments aren't even anything like the harassers. And if you are going to claim it's all an act, why should we assume you aren't part of one?
I was wrong actually, wasn't them afaik
The implication would be that they may, in fact know.
They're OP, so they opened the discussion, and with all this sockpuppeting and user impersonation going on suddenly that seems to have been provoked by it, the accusation seems suspicious.
The only clearly defined traits between some of the sockpuppets are their attitudes and insults. If you have to begin to claim that they are in on it and that its all an act, then you can go full in and claim that this entire thread is an act to farm drama from some demented troll, and it can go any way you want.
I can't say OP inspires me with great confidence regarding their innocence, but going by their arguments and the ones that have been brought on, at least the oldest before the troll accounts began infecting the thread, they made some good points. But all good facades do. Their modlog has its fair share of drama.
The jump from that to a sockpuppeteer, well, frankly, I would assume that's more the realm of karmawhores from my experience on reddit, and there were no shortage of ones who could be quite charismatic and then flip out to be a completely vulgar toxic troll. Those that sockpuppeteer want control of the narrative, and what's the best position to have control on a place like Lemmy?
I may have my biases, but I would not stack my bets against one single suspect here.
again, the draconic neo spam account is not the real draconic neo so what exactly does that prove
If it proves nothing, why do you care about "Proof"? DraconicNEO is the spam account, Draconic_NEO is the powermod. At least so far, because given how Lemmy is, it's easy for that alone, without the domain, to stop being a sufficiently descriptive identifier for long.
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Can you edit this part out? Kinda hostile tbh.
Edit: thank you for editing, a simple kindness of an edit can mean a lot to others.