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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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TL;DR: TheSilentNickel@lemmy.zip that's in OP's graphic isn't me. It's imposter account created to get me banned in revenge for being banned in my community. I've never had account on .zip and the imposter account has NEVER modded and NEVER posted to my community. Imposter account was created 3 days ago which is when my banning for serial downvoting really kicked in.
TL;DR for the TL;DR: Imposter set up account with my username on .zip was butthurt because they got banned from my community. Did sketchy stuff. Got me banned. OP (also banned from my community) thinks it's awesome, so posted graphic about it.
I'm not on lemmy.zip. "TheSilentNickel@lemmy.zip" that's in OP's graphic was never a mod of my community, and has never posted to my community.
I'm on feddit.org and lemmyusa.com.
The imposter account on .zip was created 3 days ago...after I started to seriously ban people for serial downvoting.
See the previous discussion about this. It was discussed to death earlier: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/53271052
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com this is just more of the same from the previous post in which i asked the person to disengage. OP's post seems to really be laughing at "getting me" (even tho my bans are result of an imposter account by disgruntled ban-ee). I don't feel this is a "power tripping mod" sort of post.
Or maybe someone just got their temple garments in a bunch.
You’ve always loved rule lawyering.
what does temple garments stand for? i'm looking in the sidebar, but i don't see that sorry if i am missing some terms
I thought you blocked me :-)
Wait wait wait what in the fuck.
This is the same thing from my POV.
... what the fuck is going on with the name?
This is why I just refer to him as 'the lemmyusa mod'.
His name, its half gibberish for me.
Is... my lemmy client busted or... what?
... I am becoming more displeased.
Voyager doesn’t display display names, just the actual registered name.
Ok ok, that at least makes sense.
... I am tired and going to bed now, good luck lol
u broke sp3ctr4l's brain by showing my true username. he had to go to bed. say ur sorry! now i don't knjow if I can keep u unblocked!! (am joking if not clear)
hold up, u r displeased with my name, but friends with "SatansMaggotyCumFart" (no offense to satan),really? really?! really?
i kid i kid. wouldnt it be really crazy ironic if i were some math genius and my username meant something in maths.
That reads to me as if they blocked an impersonating lemmyusa account that was using your same name.
Nah they admit to blocking me but unblocking me so they can check up on what I’m doing like a creepy ex partner.
https://lemmy.world/comment/19414905
oh I have, but i probaby unblocked you to see what ur up to. but don't worry i'll block again i only block 3 people on the total of lemmy, and ur one fo them lol
So you didn’t move on?
Hmmm, moved on until curiosity got the best of me. but now i kinda don't wanna move on and can't remember what you said that was so obnoxious. your name is really gross tho, so maybe htat was it? I mean, gross to me, maybe beautiful to you, so no judge from me
maybe i like you now tho!
I'll wait for the audiobook
if you don't wanna read the facts, nothign i can do to make you. not really in the vibe of this community though.
Just really weird that you would carry on an issue from a previous post where everything was discussed and I asked you to disengage. And also, ur graphic is the result of, and has the names, of imposter account.
This seems more of personal revenge quest, rather than a power tripping mod post.
Yes, it's all a conspiracy.
I also have a time machine.
I didn't say you were the one who created the imposter account. I said it was created by someone who was mad about being banned. It's not a conspiracy, it's a Lemmy user that is mad cuz he or she got banned from my community.
alls fair in Lemmy-dom, but i'm pointing out that ur bragging and laughing about the wrong thing. I got banned becuase of an imposter account wanting revenge. You got banned becuase you serial downvoted in my community and then you asked that your instance defederate from my instance becuase you were mad about it.
That's what started this whole thing lol ur concerns were already brought up in the previous post that discussed these issues.
This is a meltdown. I'm not interested in taking further part in it.
i'm fine w moving on too. as I told you previously when I asked you to disengage. thanks for pointing out the imposter account tho ive sent message to admin to let them know
disengage
Just heads up when someone says ‘disengage’ in a db0 community that means it’s the end of the conversation and any attempt to goad them into more by anyone is considered rule breaking.
It a way to end a conversation without anyone losing face.
Uhhhmmmm...
Ok so.... literally all that I understand about anything related to this is ... in the thread I made.
I don't know why .zip has banned you from their instance / comms... beyond the stated reason in the OP image.
Perhaps one of their mods or admins has decided that your actions do, in their view, constitute vote manipulation.
Maybe, they have some kind of ip based, or other identifying evidence that you and SilentNickel are the same person.
I don't know, I am not them, I am again, not a mod or admin of anything...
Maybe a .zip admin or mod will appear here!
And this will all get more ... fun...
As a final note:
Women Farting on Cakes is apparently a community.
I am displeased that I am now aware of this.
God damnit.
No, that's not waht I am saying. I'm saing that TheSilentNickle@lemmy.zip is an imposter account started 3 days ago, from someone who was banned in my community, so they started doing some stuff to purpously get me banned. lol
TheSilentNickle@lemmy.zip was NEVER a mod of my community and has NEVER even posted to my community.
He's an imposter that was created 3 days ago. And me, the real me, has been banned becaues of him for vote manipulation. And this is OP's post laughing about it.
I've never been to .zip and I don't care that I was banned from a bunch of communites that I never visited. But you were talking about imposter accounts, and I was showing another one. Look at OP's graphic. TheSilentNickle@lemmy.zip is on there.
So to sum up: Someone was mad that I banned them for serial downvoting. So they created an imposter account, to do some shenanigans, and op posted a graphic that I've suddenly been banned (as a result of imposters shenanigans)
so i thought that was a fun follow up to ur whole thing about imposters and conspiracies and I told u that u were just being paranoid. Guess I was wrong! haha
I'm still gonna keep banning for serial downvoting tho so all of this many pages of drama hasn't changed anything lol