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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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Banned last night and all my comments removed for calling out a Zionist troll who FREQUENTLY posts comments trashing Palestinians and celebrating death in the name of Israel.

But I'm the one that gets banned for Checks Notes "Rule 3: No Nazis, QAnon or similar"

What a circus, mods did ZERO due diligence before banning and the Zionists comment remains!

So, one of these 4 is a certified Power Tripping Bastard

*Edit: NOT TO MENTION the frequency with which I am in the Ukraine comm in support of Ukraine and correcting false comments and shit, THE KIND OF SHIT A MOD IS FOR.

Edit 2 I will concede that maybe I posted in haste. I was seeing red for a moment there because how the fuck is a user like that still just out and about commenting.

I would just like anyone who reads this to start being more aware of WHO you are interacting with on Lemmy and be more mindful of the scum around here that have popped up more and more as reddit migrants come in. We should NOT be "tolerant" of these people, they can go fuck off to X and Meta and their other fascy platforms.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Accusing someone of being a Zionist when no Zionist issue has been brought up is often a sign of a right-wing lunatic. Without the comment having some connection to Zionism, you cannot expect the mods to have the same full list of user histories that you do. You had the full context of the user's history - the mods likely did not. BPR.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (25 children)

Randomly calling people "zionists" raises red flags. Seems more of a bpr to me

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Actually, that user has been banned from your instance: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, and he's no innocent victim. OP has the correct assessment. But agree with everyone else that this comes across as a BPR/YDI, because it was completely out of context.

It's more useful imo to report the comments of that user each time they say something hateful, so they can get banned on their home instance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have reported, gets ignored. I report all these people and it continues.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well we instance banned him so reports do help. But yeah would be good if the fedia.io admin would do something.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Pinged them above, let's see how it goes

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I knew who the user was before I even opened this. Everytime I see that username in a news or politics sub I'm surprised they haven't been banned. Don't know if this was the right place to call them out, but I get your frustration.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Genuinely have no idea how he isn't banned off of his instance, he's said some incredibly racist shit about arabs.

edit: his own words:

what genocide? arabs attack, rape, and murder, then esconce the terrorists directly in and between civilian populations for the sole reason so that when israel responds the body count can be escalated and used as public relations. genocide. shame on you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Lol, that's just the tip of the iceberg too - you can check his modlog/current comment history if you want to lose your mind.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

~~fedia.io's admin has been known to be incredibly lax when it comes to banning their own users for hostility. I've seen them let way worse things slide before, and only quietly intervene if it gets big and bad enough to make fedia itself look bad.~~

User's account was suspended, looks like they're taking things more seriously than they have in the past.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My favourite moment from them was when they were getting downvoted, so they accused the CCP of infiltrating the space.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

lmao the main character syndrome is next fucking level.

SpoilerDon't let them ever realize tho that Lemmy votes are public

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Maybe someone should raise the issue to the fedia.io admin? @[email protected] ?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Thanks for tagging me. That account is banned/suspended now.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm going to go with PTB-BPR maybe?

Don't get me wrong, fuck that guy in the picture. I've seen his comments - but just blatantly bringing it up when a lot of users aren't even going to know who he is (including the mod) it's understandable. So from their perspective it just looks like you called someone a zionist for no reason.

But from my own perspective? PTB.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Just a general complaint.

While I know that it's not always doable, when posts here don't contain a screen shot of the original comment or post, it makes it harder to give a damn about it.

I mean, here you are making a claim that what you said didn't violate that rule, but we gotta jump through hoops to discover what was said.

Regarding your edit, how often you use a community isn't relevant. You could spend hours every day in a C/, and that doesn't excuse you from community rules. Totally not useful for forming an opinion on a mod or admin action

My own edit: you don't have anything in your user history for weeks that's in that community, so it makes that aspect even less relevant

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

There is no "Zionist comment". Maybe "A zionists Comment".

Which is prpbably why you were banned. Off-topic and ad-hominem. Your comment makes you look like an asshole that stalks people, de-rails discussions and tries to to invalidate their arguments with ad-hlminem comments.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The user in the picture that OP is referring to doesn't have the best modlog: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?userId=14413645

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

what genocide? arabs attack, rape, and murder, then esconce the terrorists directly in and between civilian populations for the sole reason so that when israel responds the body count can be escalated and used as public relations. genocide. shame on you.

What a piece of shit. Glad i banned him, haven't seen his comments in a while.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yep. We live with that user. I'm not a member of that community because I already know. I do read there occasionally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

How would they know he's a neozionist from just your comment? But this seems to be a trend, also happened on reddit's worldnews, although the support for the brigade there was quite explicit and was actively used to try to prop up the "War on Israel" to the same level as Ukraine long after Iran had been dealt with.

It's petty shit like that, trying to eliminate people from conversation so they don't have to deal with anyone with a history of supporting one of the good guys criticizing their genocide and ruining their "but we are also the good guys" narrative. Sort of why they get so defensive when they pull up the antisemitism label that Palestinians are also semites and that many groups that are antisemitic are also generally islamophobic outside of their hate circle with Arabs. These neozionist brigades have remained active long after Act-IL.

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