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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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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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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

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

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (10 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

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[–] UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

jordanlund@lemmy.world is absolutely friendly with the c/news team. I think he even used to be a mod there, if I remember from my time on .world.

I may be wrong, because I was banned from there months ago because I wasn't aboard the Biden/Harris love train. And I'm STILL proud of my stance. :) lmao

But I had lots of interactions with him. He's mostly good people, but he did take a lot of joy in my ban and made a special post about it and has a lot of influence admin and mods on .world.

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

still don’t know what that means, other than they are higher in the hierarchy than regular mods

LW can't mod Blahaj communities, so nothing to worry about?

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They can’t, but I think it’s something that should be taken into consideration on continued federation with LW. LBZ came very close to defederating with programming.dev something like a year ago over some transphobia from one of the admins, who was much more opening to learning and remedying the situation than I believe LW is going to be, based on past experience.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably, I was just asking OP so I’m not doubling up on admin pings if they’re already on it

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[–] Zomg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm confused I guess. You banned a lw mod, then got banned on a lw news instance, and you think it's more than coincidence?

I guess it'd be hard to prove, but imo (which isn't worth anything) I doubt that's the case.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

It turns out it was a coincidence, they even reverted the ban on me in the end too.

The two bans still strike me as a good example of archetypes of heavy-moderation action taken in different context. Shutting down a dissenting voice on a general/news board vs shutting down someone behaving badly in a more regulated space. I don't even want to give the .world moderator who banned me a hard time, because I know how hard it can be trying to figure out what is going on in a conversation that just got reported by a bunch of people. The fact that they reverted it after pushback was enough for me, and hopefully it sets an example for the future.

There's definitely a separate discussion to be had about the tendency to shut down dissent from the left in centrist/liberal spaces and characterizing it instead as 'right-wing/russian trolling.' Maybe that's more comforting than sitting with the criticism, but I don't think it's a productive way to approach political conversations.

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