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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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I'm pretty sure awful.systems shadowbanned me for disagreeing with them on one topic one time + (a bit of an uncivil comment in hindsight). Mods completely silent in DMs.

Comment in question:

Look at these two pages of the same thread:

Not making this up. Images link to the posts. More:

Kinda feels like this, lol:

Here's the ban action:

Their mod history is fucky, shows mod history 3 years ago before showing what happened 3 or 4 days ago. Feel free to verify. (Bear in mind that you will need to move forward a page or two if you read this later).

If I'm banned, why can i still post? Also, wtf was Self on about? I've only had positive experiences before getting banned. You can literally see in the comment above that I've gotten positive sentiment before. ASAIK, I've not posted on awful.systems other than the times above.

Most importantly, I wouldn't care if it was a month ban or 3 month ban even but like perma/shadow ban? for what? a mild insult and disagreeing with your circle jerk one time?

I genuinely liked the community on that instance. It had good takes ~80% of the time. Shame.

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The admin of a small Awful instance is handing out bans from their instance to people from other instances who make posts on other other instances which offend the Awful admin.

Basically some cranky person is publishing their personal block list and the appropriate response is to ignore the Awfully-run instance.

Look at this guy trying to act like a wise referee handing out meaningless bans with zero effect. It’s like if I shout “red card!” at a TV soccer match.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

At least give us a link to the discussion. Some people may want to read the perceived drama.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Still mad @ensign_crab@lemmy.world got banned for that when PugJesus was the aggressor of that.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

None of them got any bans except from the Awful instance they weren’t even using.

This is just some guy yelling into the ether about posts that rustle his jimmies.

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hold on, I'm confused, the image you posted clearly states banned "from the community politics@lemmy.world"

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Exactly. Someone is handing out bans that have no effect except their own instance, for users on other instances.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

So basically, what deegeese is saying is nonsense then?

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

I'm not even certain what they're saying.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Ah then I am misreading, clearly I need to take a break from lemmy today. My apologies.