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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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So I'm not 100% sure this is the right sub for this but I couldn't really find another sort of mod abuse sub that had actual users. I recognize that I am most certainly an asshole in this situation, but I got banned Fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com for a misogynistic comment I left on a completely different sub.

imogen_underscore in that same thread made multiple death threats against me and has only received a 7 day ban. So I want to be clear here that in their eyes a misogynistic comment left on an entirely different sub is WORSE than death threats left in your own sub?

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[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

wat da actual frickity fuck

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Death threats are a heat-of-the-moment infraction, people don't usually mean it.

In contrast, misogyny reveals a deeply flawed character of the commenter, that makes them incompatible with participation in the community.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 24 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

This is the the death threat, btw:

bro I'm literally putting a curse on you rn. you're going to die soon

Damn, I wonder why misogyny got a longer ban than that. /s

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip -1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

That was just one of them. They had one or two other ones. One was hoping I got hit by a bus and the other was suffocating I think? I might have that one mixed up for something else.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

So she did, I'll admit I missed those ones. Still, you have this still up on you account, undeleted, so I'd say YDI:

And I would feel fairly confident that the commenter was a woman because attacking someones personality (that they don’t know at all) is typically done by women. If they don’t like something you said they tend to tell you that you have a crap personality or a tiny dick.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone -5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You literally posted a screenshot with its pronouns, why do you have to misgender her?

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They as in that person? It's a gender neutral term. Are you taking the piss?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 16 hours ago
[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 6 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It was the same mod that did both bans?

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 16 hours ago

It is. (i'm a mod of the community, but i only removed comments in that thread) tbh i'm not sure what blaze's thought process was here so i'll ask him and see what he thinks. Personally i would've just banned them all for a week.

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You'll have to forgive my lack of Lemmy knowledge idk how to see which mod issues the bans.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If it was not the same mod then it really does not fit here.

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I am unaware of any way to tell which mod specifically issued the ban so I apologize

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

There are some apps that show it, and I believe tesseract web view does as well.

~~If it was two different mods there is no comparing them especially if it was two different communities, which likely have different rules.~~

Edit: never mind, the images finally loaded and it is the same community. I thought it was two different communities.

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago

Yeah same community

[–] Lembot_0001@lemm.ee 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Have you ever been to Reddit? Surely have. And most probably you're here because of Reddit's moderators are completely crazy. Well, moderators here are completely the same. They are just fewer and more lazy.
Just make another account if that community is really important for you.

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Nah I don't give a shit about the community I am/was just flabbergasted that they rate a misogynistic comment as worse than death threats.

That's just insane.

[–] fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If I was a woman I could see how online misogyny would affect me in a real way, being unable to participate in and feel welcome in communities day to day.

An anonymous flame war death threat does not actually materially affect someone, unless there's some reason to think it's serious, the odds of which are negligible.

No one's saying actual murder is less bad than misogyny, for fucks sake.

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I mean my "misogynistic comment" was basically just me saying that women are typically the ones I see making that type of specific verbal attack.

No different than someone saying they think men are bad at listening in certain contexts which I can pretty much guarantee nobody would report or get banned for in any way for saying.

[–] fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yes there are some ridiculous mod actions here, I just said that portraying them as being more sympathetic to murder than misogyny is specious.

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

I wouldn't even say that's what I was trying to portray. More just how ridiculous the ban was in context of the whole situation. My comment wasn't really misogynistic and their response seems out of scale with the punishment they gave to someone who told me they hoped I died in several creative ways.