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Banned over fish joke (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

UPDATE: The Unbans are showing up on modlog now.:

unban log screenshot

~~I have traded the month-long ban in the many communities for a 6-day ban in vegan@lemmy.dbzero.com, which is a more reasonable ban~~. this ban has also been lifted now. I appreciate the cooperation from the mod over this misunderstanding.


So it seems i've gotten a month-long ban in..... over 30 communities across lemmy.dbzer0.com, sopuli.xyz, lemmy.ca, programming.dev, and several others, for this comment here.

Screen cap of comment for posterity:

It's directly replying to a comment saying they can't imagine why anyone thought otherwise about fish feeling pain, which is reasonable. You might notice the quotation marks, because it's satirizing people's mental gymnastics about fishes' pain perception. It was meant in jest, exclusively.

It seems likely that a single mod took this joke wrong and chose to ban me on every community they have control over.

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[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yikes, a mass ban over multiple communities for that? PTB

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Ada used to do this too before people started speaking up

Mods and admins will always find a way to trip over the smallest amount of power.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 11 points 2 days ago

It is reddit modding behavior. They are censoring people they don't like

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Post:

Commentor:

Admin: "Wow, this person seems like a piece of shit. Ban"

Banned Commentator: climbs up on cross "I am being persecuted to death."

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Another person bitching about civility on Lemmy, and oh look! It's a .world user. How shocking.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 12 points 2 days ago

if this is all takes to be censored online... we are fucked

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I'm flexitarian, but celebrating or taking lightly the suffering of other beings just isn't my thing.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 day ago

You have no right to attack Ada for that.

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago

I do, she's been a bad admin who's made petty decisions and deserves to be criticized

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago

The ban across multiple communities is not intentional. I just meant to ban them from !vegan@lemmy.dbzer0.com. I was not used to Tesseract's ui. But even that was definitely jumping the gun upon rereading the joke.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 days ago

Why would you ban them from !vegan though, considering the comment was made in another community entirely? Even if we assume the comment was serious, you're basically saying the rules of the !vegan comm extend across the fediverse.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 2 days ago

Because it was meant to be punitive.

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Ridiculous more like.

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Did the punitive action work ?

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 8 points 2 days ago

It made the punisher feel a thing 🤡

[-] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Credit to you, sister. Coming here, updating your opinion and reporting it, is awesome. We need more mods like that.

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