And then he misrepresented what I said after banning me:

How deep are they willing to guzzle that Nazi boot?

So a year ago, or so, I made a big post on TenForward about the insane level of harassment that the admins of Startrek.website decided to subject me to. Due to my posting a lot, I was actually on friendly terms with the admins of STW but then shit changed after I pointed out the abuse of one of their moderators. I left and they went bonkers. Contacting admins of several instances to attempt to get me banned, contacting the admins of my Mastodon instance to attempt to get me banned and using multiple accounts to cover their ass. All of this spearheaded and primarily done by @[email protected] (or VS because I don't wanna type that repeatedly) and I've got the screenshots to prove it. Even more that I can show now that I wasn't able to back then due to certain Admins having left the website and not caring about dealing with the drama anymore. There was also one account that was targeting me aggressively that myself, Admins, and other mods of TenForward came to the conclusion was likely an alt of either an Admin or a mod of that instance. If you want more information and a whole lot of screenshots, check this post out..

Edit: Fun fact. You cannot see this community on Startrek.website. They have completely blocked Ye Power Tripping Bastards.

Just to also say this in case you don't check that post... ValueSubtracted was the lead mod of the /r/StarTrek community. So. Take that as you will, but that community was known for having some insanely heavy handed moderation. Even for Reddit. @[email protected], the other Admin, is known for using the @[email protected] account. An account he told me directly was just his admin account so he can keep a "normal" account. I would have respected this if I didn't see Corgana commenting on SysAdmin posts congratulating SysAdmin for doing a good job. The level of narcissism from both of these people is absurd. The account @[email protected] also belongs to ValueSubtracted, just as a side note. Something he told me a while back when we were chatting and I was just setting up on Mastodon. All relevant in one way or another.

Ever since we set up TenForward, not even mentioning that post, /c/Risa has effectively been dead in the water. What went from THE Star Trek meme community became a distant memory. I, being an asshole, occasionally like to look over at the instance and see what's going on. To be honest, not much. The instance is very much a one trick pony, focusing exclusively on Star Trek and having some abusive admins to boot. But I was wondering how things were going more internally. I took a look at each individual community and then the modlog. Funnily enough, I discovered that if I want to see a post that's a year old on any community, I don't need to go further than the 9th or 10th page. There's just no new content anymore and the little that is on there? They're aggressively controlling.

/c/GreatestGen or Greatest Generation

This is a community made specifically for a Podcast. Value does not actively moderate here as there are two moderators appointed. Only a single person has ever been banned. I know that it was by Value because the same user was banned from several other communities. However, this same user was also banned from lemmy.world for spam and exists on lemmy.tf as a spammer.

/c/DoctorWho or Doctor Who Social Club

Jesus Christ. For a community with 324 subscribers, Value sure has been busy. And yes. Value. He is the only moderator. He also has a weird quirk of banning someone from the instance entirely and then banning from the community as well. Why? My assumption is that he cannot handle the idea that someone is even commenting on the community outside of an instance he controls. I don't even know if it works like that but he routinely bans people from every community after banning them from the instance as a whole.

WraithGear

@[email protected] was banned from both Startrek.website as a whole as well as the DoctorWho community. Going through all posts from within the time frame, I cannot see a single post that has any removed comments on it. There is, however, a post with a single downvote that was posted the day before.

Also, if you look at a banned users account you can find the last time they interacted with anything federated to that instance. This is Wraith's.

Pronell

@[email protected] was banned from both instance and community for 'Downvote Trolling'. Now, this one might actually be legitimate because the same user was banned from two other communities a couple months later for the same claim. However, there is only a single post within the 1 week time frame and it was only downvoted twice. No other posts and no other comments had any downvotes.

Again, this just seems to be like Value is incapable of handling someone not liking his posts. Dude should try being me and getting the fuck over it. You know how often I get downvoted? You know how little fucks I give?

Various Removals

Kind of have two sides here. On one hand you're dealing with some petty, bitchy, whiny little modlog additions. Like just spiteful. On the other hand, these are just opinion. @[email protected] is just openly policing even the Doctor Who community he created. No opinion can exist that is against his own or not worded EXACTLY correctly.

/c/StarTrekOnline or STO Alliance

RiikkaTheIcePrincess

This is the third fucking community out of seven.

Considering the community has extremely little activity, it's not surprising not much was going on. The community has no moderator other than VS and the log is just him featuring and unfeaturing various posts. There were two things that stood out. First was a banning of @[email protected] for 'Downvote Trolling'. I remember interacting with Riikka and don't remember anything standing out as problematic. It does hint to me that they probably just downvoted a lot of VS' comments, disagreeing with them, and VS couldn't handle it. Also strikes me a bit odd that they were banned for 'Downvote Trolling' but specifically from a community and not from the instance as a whole.

The ban was issued on Tuesday, November 12th. So I went back and looked at every post from within that range. There are no comments that I could find that have any downvotes. There are, however, two posts that have been downvoted, each a single time. One was posted on November 12th, the other was posted on November 11th.

Feel free to check it out yourself. I cannot find any other comments or any other posts that have any downvotes within a 1 week of that ban.

The only possible conclusion I can come to is that VS was downvoted twice and just instantly banned Riikka because "Why would you downvote me otherwise?"

Millie

@[email protected] was banned for making 'Junk Comments'. A single comment of theirs was removed, more may have been under the ban removal. The only one directly removed was this:

However, the user wasn't actually banned sitewide and nor did the user delete the account. They appear to have just left the instance entirely, leaving it behind. This is the last interaction they had, a few months after the initial removal

I'm kind of with her. There are so little posts that are made on these communities outside of VS' spammy featured post of the week. When I was on the instance I was also openly downvoting all the STO ones because I was being driven insane by it.

/c/Quarks or Quark's

The only moderators here are ValueSubtracted, Corgana and @williams_[email protected] who was added as an admin shortly before I left. It might have been shortly after but fairly sure it was before. I know absolutely nothing about Williams but if Value and Corgana added him as an admin then I don't exactly have high hopes for the man.

CorsicanGuppy

@[email protected] was banned from both Quarks and the Site as a whole. The reason given is vote manipulation and also "Learn to curate your feed". They were also banned from a number of other communities from db0 for both vote manipulation and being anti-AI. Now, I'm typing this post out as I'm getting all these screenshots so I feel I need to say this really quick. This isn't the first time I've seen the same ban from the same Db0 communities. Pronell, mentioned earlier, also had been given vote manipulation/Anti-AI bans to both Stable Diffusion Witches and Stable Diffusion Mycology, granted this happened MONTHS later. However, I feel I should say it now because twice is a coincidence but three times is a pattern. So far we're just at twice. Hopefully I'll remember to delete this if we stay at twice.

Now back to the French fish. There were several posts within a week timeframe of that ban, but only one was downvoted and it was nearly a full week prior to the ban. No other posts were downvoted and the only comments downvoted during that timeframe belonged to @[email protected] for questioning ValueSubtracted/TrekSite and Corgana/SystemAdmin and their stance on defederation. Legitimately have no idea where the downvotes are coming from that Guppy got banned over. Nothing is visible on either lemmy.world or on startrek.website during that timeframe.

Me

Well, not really me. I just found this funny. This was a post linking to TenForward just after it was created and me posting the information about VS harassing me behind the scenes.

/c/DaystromInstitute or Daystrom Institute

This community is moderated by a number of moderators. ValueSubtracted is not one of them. Probably why I have literally nothing I can point to here. Absolutely nothing. There are no removals of stuff on this community within the past year. The only bans from the community are also from people who were banned from every other community on the instance. More on those later. It's fucking amazing that the two communities that don't have ValueSubtracted as the primary mod are also the two communities that don't have any unnecessary removals.

Risa...

My former home. The place where I literally started. I was only ever posting Star Trek memes for like a month until I realized @The_[email protected] was posting elsewhere. I went "Hey, I have a lot of saved memes too!" and so it was born. But it all could have gone very differently if not for @[email protected]. Literally the only moderator on the community. Now, there's also something quite important here. The community has no rules. The sidebar straight up says "we have no real rules" which was the spawning point of me leaving. Things were being removed for dumb reasons with Burrito Truck being the sole arbiter on what went where. So let's see how things have gone, shall we?

Neato

@[email protected] was banned from both Risa and the instance as a whole for 'Downvote Trolling'. A number of posts made during this time were downvoted. While looking through to see if I could find anything specific, I did find this comment from @[email protected] that made me laugh my ass off:

SendPicsOfSandwiches

Yet again, @[email protected] was banned from both the community and entire instance for 'Downvote Trolling'. Also at about the same time as Neato so the same number of posts that were generally downvoted. Even the post that Crackhappy commented on only had 9 downvotes.

Vaggumon

Again, @[email protected], now presumably @[email protected], was banned for 'Downvote Trolling' in the exact same time frame from both the community and the instance.

Random Removals

Literally could be absolutely anything. No clue. My guess? Basing it off of past experience of seeing other posts removed, this is just stuff Burrito Truck doesn't like but I have literally no way of knowing because USSBurritoTruck is terrified of just giving a solid reason.

/c/StarTrek or Star Trek Social Club.

The moderators here are USS Burrito Truck, Value Subtracked and @[email protected] whom I know absolutely nothing about. But I can tell you right now, this is going to be bad. This is where all the conversation happens about Star Trek. As much as people want to give me shit for being protective over Discovery, I am nothing in comparison to the absolute fanboy that Value Subtracted is. Did you know he was the literal reason that /r/StarTrekDiscovery was created? People were so frustrated with being unable to talk about the series without being completely policed that they made their own community. Even that community is accused of being too protective but it's insane that it even had to happen. It's also not the first time. Most Trek shows with their own subreddits were made explicitly due to Value and Corganas practices as the mods of /r/StarTrek.

XTL

@[email protected] was banned, just like before, for Downvote Trolling. Thankfully this is the only one that's really on this list that I can see at the moment. But, just like before, there are only a couple of posts within that one week time frame that I see. They each only have one downvote. Both were posted by Value Subtracted.

Random Removals

@[email protected] is told to keep on topic. It is on topic. It's talking about Star Trek. But because it is critical of Discovery, it isn't on topic after all.

@Tim_[email protected] also gave a critical opinion of Discovery and was told to "Be Honest". Because evidently criticizing Discovery at all is just a lie against the universe. The delusions here are insane.

@[email protected] also needs to "be honest" about just 'not hearing about Discovery'. Like... I'd have just downvoted this and moved on.

In fact, here. Just have a ton of 'em.

Just The Whole Ass Website

Downvote Trolling

@[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected] and @[email protected] were also banned for 'Downvote Trolling'. And that would be a pattern too. So I guess I'm late to the game on this, considering some asking around, but evidently it's known that there are a number of mods, such as @even_[email protected], who just outright ban you from their community if you downvote. Quite a few of them seem to not be believers in sorting by 'All' and just get really aggressive about banning anyone IMMEDIATELY who dares downvote. How incredibly fragile.

EleventhHour

I remember seeing this person a LOT and then suddenly vanishing. They left their lemmy.world account about a month after this ban.

DefaultDefect

@Default_[email protected] was banned for "Conspiracy Nonsense". Their last comment federated to the instance is this which just seems like more of a joke than anything else.

Phoenixz

Fairly bitchy way to ban someone, especially as a reason. Took a bit but I believe I found why they won't be missed. Of course, @[email protected] was critical of Discovery.

More

There are more. Many, many, many more. Go take a look at the modlog yourself. See if you can find any easy and simple ones that I missed.

Conclusion

"Stamets... why are you making this post? It was a year ago that you left Startrek.website. Are you seriously so mad over these dudes that you can't let it go?"

I spent a good chunk of this morning dumpster diving for breakfast and got yelled at cop for my troubles. Not the first time it happened. Doubt it'll be the last time. But it did leave me with a particularly frustrated taste in my mouth and I wanted to be able to do something against dickheads in some position of authority. So, my ADHD mingled with my spite and I hyper focused this over the past few hours. Do I feel better about myself? Not really. But these assholes are smearing the name of Star Trek. They act like Gul Dukat while trying to pretend they're the pinnacle of the Federation. They're changelings in disguise. These are the people who took over in Picard Season 3. They're not good people who don't have good morals and have taken explicitly bad actions. Fuck the lot of 'em. I greatly dislike the fact that they're using the name of Star Trek while acting so counter to literally everything that Star Trek stands for. I'm frustrated and annoyed that they're not called out more often for abusing their position. That's why I made this stupidly long post despite my stomach devouring its own lining.

If you're on StarTrek.website, you're not likely going to be able to see this post on that specific instance for very long. So, if you have any friends who are on Startrek.website and want to let them know that the admins are doing this type of stuff, just check this out on lemmy.world and send that link specifically. And if this does get pulled off of Ye Power Tripping Bastards, a copy will be available on /c/[email protected]

You gotta give it to him though. He did what he said he would.

He subtracted every ounce of value from that website.

Following the iran war events i made a provocative post at [email protected] and it got taken down. I can understand why they would not like that one but why banning people who were simply arguing their opinion?

Based on the comments, this post was online for about 20 hours before being erased and locked.

The article

Original post (removed)

Archive before removal

Got quite confused by this ban

Edit: context https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/98196510-49ce-40ee-8db5-a8914f7ad0b1.webp

And the comment I responded to:

I don't know how to see who banned me, but I guess the mod thought that my response to the"normal woman" having a body type that is far more idealized than normal was racist since I said the body type probably was a minority among body types? English as second language so I might be in the wrong

The Mod of progressive Politics ([email protected]) removes any opinion they don't like and bans any users that hold these "descenting" opinions. I was banned for pointing out that a

I downvoted maybe half a dozen posts. They were all right-wing bullshit and I realized that's all the user has ever posted so I got out of there. The next day I see more of his junk and go to downvote but can't because I'm banned.

Sure it was a dick move to poke the bear about his lifestyle of only posting things that get downvoted, but he. Went. OFF!

Accusing me of alts, thinking I'm obsessed with him, message after message... I probably have more in my inbox right now but stitching this image together took long enough.

I removed this guy's blatantly rule-breaking (in multiple ways) comment, but because he had written it in response to my own comment I also went to the trouble of explaining myself. He decided to escalate his toxic behavior by accusing me of abusing my power anyway, so what other choice did I have but to ban him?

https://lemmy.world/modlog?commentId=17600736

https://lemmy.world/modlog?commentId=17621174

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 [email protected], 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.

I came up with a riddle and they claimed I was violating a rule. I argued that I was not and got permabanned. It was my first ever post there lol. I only posted there because there's not really a comparable Lemmy sub. Some mods are just so petty and stupid.

Instance is midwest.social. Not a solitary clue who the admin was who did it.

A friend was wondering why they hadn't seen my posts and figured I'd been banned from lemmy.world or just left in general. I went to his instance and saw that in the modlog.

Not a damn clue as to why. There are no post removals, no comment removals, no temp bans and I never got any messages from any of the admins about anything that I did. Just one day, they randomly banned me for racism without rhyme nor reason. I have literally nothing that I can point towards and say "This is the reason why" because they never bothered to do anything other than ban me.

I am many things. I am an asshole, I'm a vindictive bitch, I'm a petty prick, I'm often antagonistic, I'm also a whiny bitch. But racist?

Edit:

Well okay then

https://feddit.org/post/13994826/7165181

Everything I downvoted was because I genuinely do not think it's good. Like meat is not going to cure cancer.

I actually really like eating meat I just try to life a life that gives others room to enjoy this earth too without mutually destroying it.

Please tell me how I am the asshole :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31072292

Summary:

I downvoted pro-AI comments in a post in leftymemes community. It was LLM generated polandball comic (Which is objectively pathetic as fuck) that showed up on my feed, blocked couple of users who I thought were unhinged, and have blocked the whole instance on my client after realizing how rabid these morons are.

I didn't go looking for AI posts like a vigilante.

One user in question got miffed for being downvoted and banned me from places they moderate.

Nearly a thousand treasonous rioters were convicted and needed to be pardoned by the Criminal-in-Chief

Has anyone else noticed this community behavior? One mod, he posts topical news, locks the post. Anyone who comments before the post is locked get banned? No rules listed? Strange.

This was removed shortly after an r/Privacy moderator with significant connections to Reddit administration posted this: Upholding our Public Content Policy

Redacting after realizing this was a karma farming bot

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-04/beijing-ai-and-censors-erase-tiananmen-square-massacre/105370772

I posted this in Privacy, and News.ml
They were both removed for "off topic" and "lemmy rules". Good times. It's fun to see them literally censor news reports about censorship in China.

This, by the way, is actual real freedom of speech censorship. It's censoring anyone that talks about the government.

Also, i love that they banned an .ee account for six months. That's just extra special sauce.

Liberalism is when you believe in voting against fascism to lessen the burdens on engaging in actual leftist action, I guess.

Extremely dire turbolib statement here, RIP

Reddit privacy moderators recently censored this content over a day after it was posted. IMO the reason is suspicious.

Accessible at Reddit or Reveddit

(There are no subreddit rules banning "political propaganda" or "character assassination." Nor does this comment appear to rise to either of those accusations: other non-removed comments back up the removed one.)

I commented the following on this post problem is not Netanyahu, it is not Ben Gvir. it is the white supremacist mindset of Israeli public.

This is not new, extremists gain power, they are then making everything they can to stay in power while they slowly turn anyone they can to their side. They use the education system, political systems, laws and the media. Considering that Netanyahu has been in power since 2009 he has literally shaped the political and moral ideology of a significant part of the population. Imagine being 10 yo at 2009, by the time you van vote all you ever knew was Netanyahu. At the end of the day, an adult that is calling for genocide is responsible for their opinions and actions, but this is how a situation where a majority of a country if genocidal happens, with slow, steady and intentional manipulation of the public. Netanyahu and his terrorist goons ARE the problem, but at this point removing them from power is just a small part of the solution. As a kid I always wandered how people can truly think a genocide is a good idea, as an adult I am sad to see that it really is that easy, it really can start with just the wrong people gaining power. And just to be fair, this is very much true about Palestine as well. While the situation is completely different, they too have been under a genocidal and terroristic regime since 2006 and many (probably most) would answer similarly to such a questionnaire about Israelis and Jews. Of course Palestine have had the short end of the stick for all of those years while Israel got to become a developed country. It's just sad to see how the people in power just fuck everyone around them, no one wins, no one is happy, all you get is death, hate and destruction, and of course the reason for all of this: Money, religion, power.

I don't know how to check who the mod was but it seems that they are removing plenty of content, some of which seems to be content that just doesn't support a black and white view of the situation where Palestinians are the only victims and Israelis are all evil (not excusing genocide here)

And the weird thing is that rule one has nothing to do with the comment:

Banned for 'Internet Slapfight' despite the vast majority of my comments being to debunk Hasbara, and disengaging from a Zionist troll when the attacks went from disinformation to personal

Post:

https://lemmy.world/post/30244778

Luckily none of my comments pertaining to the actual issue at hand got deleted, but how this somehow warrants a ban is completely ridiculous.

I do want to promote some better World News comms:

[email protected]

~~[email protected]~~ Avoid due to their support of white Nationalist propagandist Tucker Carlson. See https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/19034187

For obvious reasons I won't be engaging with the lw world news, nor be able to debunk any hasbara there that aims to justify this genocide one way or another

reason: insulting

Apparently having an earnest discussion about a public figure's behavior will now be censored by Proton "mods"

https://lemmy.world/modlog/37655

Looks like they stepped up their modding recently due to unfavourable commentary on the CEOs comments regarding Trump administration

https://protonvpn.com/blog/fight-censorship-2024

With authoritarian governments increasingly turning to censorship to silence dissent, limit information, and manipulate public opinion, Proton VPN and the anti-censorship services it provides have never been more critical.

🤡

I guess CEOs have feelings too?

Keep digging this hole Andy, clearly you don't understand who pays for your services.

offending content that was scabbed on lemmy.world instance (without modlog entiresi) but can still be reviewed on thebrainbin.org

https://thebrainbin.org/m/[email protected]/t/812127/Proton-VPN-is-now-even-safer-faster-and-more-efficient/comment/6397577#entry-comment-6397577

Feddit.uk post: https://feddit.uk/post/29902751

Blahaj instances list: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/instances