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.
That's only a problem if abused.
And it isn't. The nature of the beast is such that there's always admin oversight.
More importantly, nobody can own a topic here. It doesn't matter if one asshat abuses their position, there's still 5 other c/bogantalk communities, or there can be.
Having mod positions in multiple communities isn't inherently abusive. Reddit conditioned us to think so, but it really isn't the case.
Nor am I personally willing to indulge my misanthropy to the extent of defaulting to the assumption that anyone moderating is on an inevitable path to douchebaggery. Which is separate from there being a severe lack of effectiveness to it when people have tried to go all god emperor over the last couple of years. Power mods that try it, fail, and become power mods over emptiness.
If a given mod is both fair and effective, it doesn't matter how many communities it is at all anyway. You'll never know how many they moderate because there's nothing to see but stable communities.
It's hunting for a problem that just isn't here.
Again, you are missing the point. It is about removing possibility of the concentration of power in one hand.
It CAN be abused and WILL be abused. This very thread is an example how.
I'm not missing the point, I'm disagreeing with you.
You are clearly missing the point then.
Why you don't seem to get is that your opinion isn't incontrovertible fact. Saying it a dozen different ways doesn't make it more important, more valid, or even just better expressed.
I'm not missing a fucking thing, I just find your opinion weak and pessimistic.
Now, you don't have to like that. But repeating over and over that I'm "missing" something is an even weaker rhetorical gambit.
So, bugger off mate. You're crossing the line into inanity as well as rudeness
Since you don't seem to understand what I am saying and where I am coming from, you are clearly missing the point.
Me? Are you sure about that?
I am!
In a post about a powermod routinely doing precisely the very thing you claim powermods won't apparently do, out of the goodness of their black little rotten hearts.
Pointing at the sky and yelling green won't make it any less blue.