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.
All posts should follow this basic structure:
Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.
YPTB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.
Some acronyms you might see.
Relevant comms
I pointed out the correct terminology for comms here on Lemmy. This is somehow blaming a victim. Help me understand.
The irony of just getting banned, no warning, from a power tripping comm about mod abuse is just next level.
Lmao abused by a mod on the abuse hotline. Maybe it sounded a little pointed since its just text but wtf a ban? Lmao
It's pretty weird over on lemmy.sdf and I try to just take ~~qrstuv~~ (EDIT: this was wesker, not qrstuv. Wesker also gets up to some trolling) as some odd performance art. Funhole, Linux Surrealism, and bun alert are great, but most every other community is run by qrstuv, and they can be oddly tyrannical outside of Funhole. Their entire account is practically digital performance art. EDIT: Wesker tends to be a little bit more "normal" rather than too weird to die all the time, but there's still a ton of lighthearted in-joking and trolling going on.
I'm pretty sure that community was originally created by qrstuv to bait someone who was being shit in the Funhole community into complaining about the legitimate moderation actions taken against them, then see how long it took them to realize they were being responded to by the very person who banned them.
My take would be that, yes, it is absurd to call correcting terminology victim blaming, and that's the "joke".
EDIT: I'd actually check the mod log to see if any action was taken against you besides a trolling comment. Would be willing to bet there isn't actually.
Also, the joke of going: "Item A: blah, Item 2: blah" should be pointed out.
It's not a legitimate mod abuse community, it's effectively a -jerk style comm for shitposting around the theme.
Wow, that is a lot of very specific stuff to know that I would never have guessed. I can’t decide if this means I don’t spend enough time on here or if I need to spend way less.
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Huh... That is really deep in the in-joke nonsense weeds, thank you very much for filling us in on what the hell happened here, I'd have had no ability to ascertain any of this without your explanation
I don't moderate that community anymore. I was forcibly removed in a coup. I said some things, people didn't like the things, and I was removed and banned myself for a while.
It's Not Dr. Wesker they are looking for I guess.
There's a Mitchell and Webb sketch about the Apprentice being full of idiots, for an audience of idiots. At the end, they note there are some non-idiots who watch out of a sense of irony.
"And remind me, how do these ironic non-idiots show up in the ratings?"
"They show up the same, my friend."
So I'm not feeling much better knowing this is a mod abuse done ironically.
qrstuv complains that he got banned in subs that he had "never heard of" but looks like the reason he got banned is he went to those very subs to downvote a bunch of stuff. So I'm not thinking this is a real thing. lol
Hot damn a ban for that? I haven't looked at your history, which could change my opinion, but damn that seems harsh.
I personally don't think you did anything, maybe tone was slightly harsher than it needed to be, but that's all I see. Hardly worth a ban. Ban for me as a mod is like you systematically bothered my users or went on a racist tirade or something.
PTB
I mean, even IF my history had awful things, this was my first time interacting with that Comm and it was in an effort to help someone obviously new to Lemmy. Seeing harshness in my message is evidence that we all read things differently.
Nah, if you had a history of awful things and came in it would make me read your comment differently.
That said, I saw no harshness in there.
But I will say that your activity outside of a comm is definitely a factor for me as well. I won't preemptively ban, but it will mean way less leeway being given.
I think that's a troll community, right? The problem here is that you ate the onion.
My suspicion is that the sub is so tightly wound against "victim blaming" (aka, "not instantly agreeing with OP") that any correction is seen as opposition. My other suspicion, from looking at the comm and how often they mock this one, is that they tried and failed to play the victim here, and decided to make their own mod abuse comm with blackjack and hookers. PTB
the sub
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...Can we pretend I was calling Not Dr Wesker submissive? Please?
The good doctor has been a very, very naughty doctor and will take their punishment like the dirty little pig boy they are.
Straight to jail
That community is a giant troll. EVERYTHING is victim blaming there, which means nearly everyone gets banned. Got myself banned quite a while back for practically nothing lol
everyone's trying to figure out where the victim blaming is, I'm more baffled by "you don't know that"
we don't know that communities are called communities? we don't know that subreddits are on reddit? I guess we need this mod to drop a list of the things we're allowed to know
I only saw the top of the image before coming to the comments. I was thinking to myself, who tf calls them sub reddits on lemmy? (eww that word...)
And that's exactly what you said. I woulda gotten a ban too I guess.
I'm sorry this happened to you.
(It's a parody sub, so part of the joke is the wacky rules and bans.)
Dumb. I'm sure it's just the height of comedy to someone.
Even the OP's complaint of the post you were responding do was BS. He says never heard of those communities, but looks like he was downvoting a bunch of posts in those communities, which seems to part of his schtick. He wrote "subreddits" on purpose to get people riled up. The whole thing is BS from the beginning that you got pulled into.
Sure, it's kinda dumb and goofy. But at least now you know it wasn't serious, and your ban is only temp. When your ban is up in a couple of days, you can go and participate and even post your ban from there in there. Then you'll get a bunch of "So sorry that happened to you" And "poop in jail" comments.
I personally think that Lemmy is too serious most of the time. Not that I'm a huge fan of that comm's humor, but it can be fun to roll with it sometimes.
Unfortunately part of the joke is laughing at the newbies who go in there say something, then get banned. So whether you like the performance art or not, you've become a part of it! lol
Yeah I don't know what their deal is but they're some kind of troll. I don't think PTB is quite right, but it's close enough.
Wesker is a wild card.
Yeah, all those times he killed innocent people, very surprising stuff
The mods comment makes absolutely so sense. I want to think it was meant as a response to something else but it kinda just doesn't make sense in general.
Haha, some people just have a stick up their ass.
Lots of sophist bullshit like this gets tossed around these days, so people can rationaloze being an ass.
Mod abuse hotline is a circlejerk creation. It's not a place to call out mod abuse, it's a call for the mods to abuse you.
A play on words and interpretations...
lol nta
I'm sorry this happened to you.
That's an odd community. They don't like this one very much and they like to comment something about pooping in jail. It's either teenagers or performance art.
Godmods - when the cure is worse than the disease.
We really need a clueless user acronym lol. Or maybe noob user? I dunno, something to cover when the situation is just a matter of stepping in a cow patty while walking in your living room. Wtf is it doing there? Oh, my brother is taking the piss again.
Some communities aren't exactly normal, but you'd have to already be familiar with the fediverse and how some instances/communities are to know that you can't expect genuine discourse (be it from trolling, satire, or just batshit crazy mods/admins).
That's what you ran into here. Wesker is.... well, Wesker, and that means a lot of weird shit mingled in with some otherwise entertaining shit. You got hit with the weird shit this time. You didn't do anything wrong, you just ended up in a crack house while looking for epsom salts to soak your bunions.
Edit: also, you were correct and thank you for giving that information to someone with good manners the way you did :). Some folks get nasty about it
Must have been mids first day on the job
Anybody can be a mod or the president. Hang in there.
Mods, please do something about all dis bictim blaming in this thread