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.
I think there should not be power mods on lemmy. It should be baked into the core code to have a max limit.
A person can easily avoid that limit by having multiple accounts, and that should be an accepted solution if a community truly needs a mod. But it will lessen the practice.
I don't disagree about power mods. I'm saying that using an arbitrary number of communities won't prevent that by itself. It's a more complicated issue to address. A power mod could have two or three communities and if they're the right ones, dominate a topic.
That's the problem, in my mind, that the limit would be arbitrary. No matter what number you pick, unless it's one, you can't totally eliminate power modding methodology from controlling discourse. And, like you said, it's trivial to bypass to begin with.
I think you are correct. I have seen how mod abuse grew on Reddit. A lot of that was company culture allowing such a thing. But some of it was simply human nature.
Lemmy is very innovative. I think it will find creative solutions when the problem slowly gets a little worse each year. But I can’t think of any now.
Exactly.
(And no cheesing it by serially leaving and rejoining multiple communities; you can mod one community. If you quit you can mod one other. And so on, with a limit of, say, two communities per year. But you can't go back to the first one for, say, a decade.)