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.

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[+] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (12 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Because you still can be banned across individual servers so multiple communities, sometimes very large - and there isn't anyone who can unban you when it happens.

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    I do.

    Admins should have an ability to unban but not to ban people so essentially to control moderators but not to be moderators themselves. Moderators shouldn't be allowed to moderate more than a couple of communities.

    Alternatively "membership" of Lemmy would be conditional upon acceptance of appeal process where admins of different instance(s) would decide if someone should be unbanned.

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    Difficult, yeah. Impossible, no. It could be one of conditions of using the software. But I am not claiming it is easy.

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    Lemmy's license forbids doing this

    If so that obviously would have to change first.

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