this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2024
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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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[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Power tripping bastard for sure, banning someone for misspelling words? If anything that makes him look like a troll, not the OP.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I swear I've seen this same situation some time ago including with the exact misspelling. Could be a coincidence, though.

EDIT: searching misspelling banned gives a comment by OP from 23 days ago (but the post is gone). I'm assuming what I remember seeing was probably this post before it was deleted and reposted.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Probably. I did post this somewhere else and it was deleted. I didn't know of this place yet lol

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because it's clearly normal for your typography and patience to improve when you're pissed off

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Not to mention autoincorrect having gotten so much worse over the years.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

finally a space to diss on jordanlund bless 😭

i was banned by this mod for politely noting how certain comments lead to escalation of inappropriate behavior. i noted how by bantering with infringing accounts after comment removal, [email protected] mods actually increased the work they needed to do to remove abusive content and amplified toxic voices as a whole. i used no unkind language and really at the time i genuinely hoped for improvement to the quality of the community.

their response?

  • permabanned
  • for “mod abuse”
  • one month after i made the post in question

don’t use [email protected]. their entire mod team is dedicated to just kind of fucking around in a sandbox with thousands of users, not to creating a space for genuine constructive world news engagement. preferably also just stop using lemmy.world when possible.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

World is the most carbon copy of Reddit of all instances. And that's not a pro.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

I am definitely considering switching from lemmy.world after the blatent censoring of posts and comments from large communities that happened the past few days.

[–] Cethin 12 points 2 weeks ago

I appreciate my instance of Lemmy.zip. I've had no issues.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Jordanlund is almost as big a piece of shit as LyingSquid.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (19 children)

Wait, what? FlyingSquid seems fine. In the only drama I saw involving them, it seemed to me like they were in the right. I asked someone who was all heated up about what a POS they were for some details or examples, and literally all they could come up with was a single un-called for message FlyingSquid sent to one user months ago, which for a full-time moderator means they're way ahead of the curve.

Edit: Maybe I should ask for examples, what did FlyingSquid do?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

FlyingSquid has a tendency to threaten moderator action in response to arguments they're heavily involved in, which often comes off as a last-ditch effort to 'win'.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

I’ve seen FS straight up lie when banning people, making up excuses etc. For a period they even followed me around commenting on nearly everything I did trying to harass me until I called him out and the “coincidental” replies magically stopped.

FS is worse than JL from every interaction I’ve had with eirher. JL I can see having a bit of common sense and maturity.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

In my experience FlyingSquid tends to participate in the stupid and toxic aspects of the communities he's policing but doesn't stoop to abusing the power, certainly not to the extent of others I've seen. i.e. I think he could do more positive actions to build a good community but he doesn't use as many negative actions to actively harm the community.

Lemmy.world is kinda lame in general though, especially when it comes to politics. Very narrow minded and like a bunch of piranhas when it comes to suppressing dissent. If you are easing into lemmy from Reddit you'll feel right at home there.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Lemmy.World mods are extremely Zionist and frequently ban users for saying anything remotely pro Palestinian or making a claim about Israel without evidence.

Saying 20.000 killed Palestinians were Hamas without evidence to justify the genocide however, is totally fine.

A very open Zionist "gedeliyah" got promoted to mod on their news community.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Imagine being a regular person with no dog in this race personally and still going yeah, genocide seems good.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

I just checked. It was two days ago, but the story about Amnesty International declaring it a genocide is still on the second page of results on [email protected], and the very top story on [email protected] after a series of ones about the United shooting is about Israel killing an American family right after the US government told them where they were so they could avoid killing them.

If the lemmy.world mods are banning people for saying anything remotely pro-Palestinian, they must be busy with something else right now. Are you sure that someone wasn't calling for Israeli civilians to be killed, or something, and got banned for that? Because that might seem similar, to someone with a particular type of mindset, but it's not the same thing, and pretending it's that first thing when it's the second is dishonest.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

Zionist "gedeliyah"

Do you have any example of this ?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

He constantly brings up Hamas at every thread about Israel committing crimes and never condemns the IDF. The both sidesing is way too obvious.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That cat also has a right to self defense.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I feel the separation between staff and user has already been entrenched.

Looking at modlogs, at times the given reasons show to me at least that they, the mods, have grown tired and are now settling on getting rid of potential trouble rather than fixing it.

Experienced can also mean jaded and in that state of mind you no longer care about circumstances, you just want to get shit done so you'll be rid of another stress you don't want to deal with.

Mods also need a timeout. The volunteer excuse can only work for so long. A way has to be found to prevent them from feeling like they're in a deadend job where they're only greeted with hostility. We need a mod relaxation and decompression program.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was banned from c/politics by that same mod because of bullshit reasons too. They're a petty tyrant who can't handle anything that might disrupt their echo chamber.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

I just stopped activity in all places that mod had power in. I already had issues with news on lw.

Going to migrate instances later.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So excluding people due to a potential: innocent mistake, minor lack of knowledge, language difference (as simple as UK vs US English, and or different spelling from a different language you might speak. Either way, if you look it up, the spelling you used is not uncommon, it's even used in some MSM reports and documentaries), learning and or one of many other disabilities, shit device.

And they say we create echo chambers when we want to get away from such bullshit.

https://medium.com/no-prescription-needed/grammar-the-worlds-most-under-recognized-social-construct-a54e096ecc9c

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

wtf is it with lemmy world mods. you think this is reddit? do you want your instance to be an echo champer or want users to just leave and join another?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

Clearly you are faking your outrage if you can't spell "chamber". You're rumbled. Banned for trolling.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Lemmy.World so federated it is ran by the feds.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

jordanlund's modding is very questionable.

does he know how to mod or he is just doing based on his feelz?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

Not surprised, Jordan is one of the fucking worst. If not number one at least number two worst mod on all of Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I got perma banned from reddit for telling pedophiles in the doctor disrespect community that regardless of legality, fucking a 16 year old makes you a scumbag. Funny that.

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[–] Cethin 14 points 2 weeks ago

Some places have become like reddit. The saving grace is it never all will. The joy of federation is you can always leave the places they control.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Are we really bringing back the "Ban you for coughing" nonsense from Reddit?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

As usual, for alternative communities

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

This might be the worst one I've seen on here.

Edit: Also, this is why trolling shouldn't be against the rules... it's way too subjective and always ends up getting abused by shitty mods. I get that people don't like trolling but it's better to be specific and ban the obnoxious things trolls do instead of trying to speculate about their state of mind.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I have said it multiple times (many times removed) but Jordanlund and Flyingsquid are Jewish Supremacists that are pro-Israel in everything but name. They will show up to anything remotely Israel to defend Israel while saying they aren’t for Israel.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

It's a systematic problem. The large LW communities have a stranglehold that prevents new ones from taking hold.

For Lemmy to improve, there needs to be a very easy way to find new communities, particularly on different instances!

Currently there is no way to navigate communities on other instances without a direct keyword search, or by opening a private window to get the link directly from the other server as a logged off user. Clicking the 'Communities' link also needs to default to rising new communities, and not to existing communities.

There also needs to be a major change to the hot/active sorting algorithm to favor small communities with higher engagement % over large ones with higher net upvotes (lower engagement %). The top ten communities should be changing from month to month - otherwise large communities will only get further entrenched and moderation will only get worse.

This is a change that the devs would have to implement. Otherwise dbzer0 or lemmyzip or whatever other server that grows next will just eventually turn into LW and the same problem will repeat.

Does anyone know if these ideas have already been discussed in a closed pull request?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There are three things that are certain in life: death, taxes and internet moderators being power tripping cucks.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

What a smug shit.

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