I apparently got shadow banned almost a year ago from blahaj, for a comment I made on lemmy.world

That user showed up in the thread warning about someone spreading fud about Wikipedia to attack OP. Safe to say, whoever they are, they have multiple accounts for their obsessions.

Just because I am mentally ill mean doesn't mean I use Linux. I mean I do use it, but not because I'm mentally ill.

well you could just make a lemmy community about spurious bans and people could vote on it, and you could tag them in the comments somewhere….

I love it.

Cheka: Cheka if you're banned or your content is removed.

Except when it comes to cultural/generational uses of words. Every generation has words they use in a altered way. Dude was one such word when I was young. It was used by my generation in a way that didn't exactly match the definition. Just like all the other generations use words out context with their written definitions. Its why I laugh when the younger generations get mad because they think they invented the concept.

It depends on the context. The term has generally become more generic, but some contexts can put it back to its original gendered meaning.

Its your choice.

fair but I've been banned because I didn't follow the flow of the political narrative of the conversation. I don't consider myself squarely in one camp so I read, understand, and comment/criticize what I feel I want to engage with. I will admit i was auto banned from one instance and got no response from anyone, so I can relate to what your comment is getting at.

Conflation due to context?

I think sexual activity adds implied gender relationships that shift how 'dude' is interpreted. While 'dude' can feel androgynous in casual contexts, in a phrase like 'fucked a bunch of dudes,' the sexual framing amplifies its masculine connotations. This shows how cultural norms around sexuality and gender can override attempts at neutrality.

Most of the women I’ve fucked have been dudes.

A few weren’t.

It's male-leaning, although it gets used androgynously.

If someone personally didn't want to be called dude, I'd avoid it. Otherwise it's not worth freaking out over.

"Using the power of the Continuum Transfunctioner, we will now banish you to Hoboken New Jersey."

Unless it’s hexbear in which case the users are also nuts

I can tell you that a lot of the blahaj users hold the same mentality.

Block the specific subs, it's more work but fine grained enough to see all comments that you can interact with.

There isn't (Although Lemmy.World & programming.dev are)

How many dudes have you fucked?

That's because bitch is an insult

Big stretch there bud.

Cuntycunt

I usually get a lot of hate when I call it "binary thinking" to see only two extreme polar opposite sides to any issue. Some people don't relate to that term outside of gender issues.

Just don't care if you get banned other than to whine about it in whine subs.

Nope, everything is either lo (masculine "the") or la (feminine "the"), and there is no "the" which is gender neutral.

Yeah, when saying things like "this" or "that" there is a neutral version used only and very explicitly for objects when you're not using the actual noun for the object - i.e. in "give me that" but not in "give me that box" - but that's about as close as the thing gets to having a neutral gender.

Same with Portuguese, Italian, French and, as far as I know, all Romance languages out there.

Funny bit is that whilst for most things the same thing tends to be have a noun which is masculine or feminine in all of those languages (at least the ones I know, so no idea about Romanian), some words might be masculine in one language and feminine in another or vice-versa.

I remember the creator of the bot that does the bans insisted until he was blue in the fact that it doesn't ban based on downvotes while spewing a lot f technobabble that ultimately ammounted to banning for downvotes. So yeah, he's trying to bring back one of the worse features of Reddit, that being an ass kissing requirement, that's what karma requirements are, they are an ass kissing requirement, because the way you get karma points is by kissing ass, the way you lose them is by sharing new or different ideas. See the issue with them? The system punishes people for having ideas that other people don't like, not that are wrong or evil, but that other people simply don't like. That's not even mentioning people who cheat the system by doing vote manipulation to their own comments or to other comments.

Hmm, well, I wasn't banned from anything before that, and none of my comments had been highly downvoted. I had gotten in a few people's faces over genocide denial, though. I assumed it was because of that.

Funny enough, I just double-checked, and it looks like I've recently been banned from a bunch of Dubvee communities, too. I've never heard of this instance before, but based on this post, I'm guessing they didn't like my thoughts on United Healthcare. Again, I wasn't even aware of Dubvee until now, so I can't say it feels like much of a loss.

Because I know you people can't read, I'm adding this bit of clarification to the top: saying we should choose A over B doesn't necessarily mean one supports A. I don't want an appendectomy, but if the alternative is dying from appendicitis, it's the better of the two possible options. If I choose not to get an appendectomy, that is the same as choosing to die, even if I delude myself into thinking that if I choose not to decide, I haven't made a choice.

I love public modlogs because people can read them and link to them while also straight up lying about them. Let's take a closer look at what the blahaj mod said.

reason: Weirdo who defends genocide, because only young people are aginast it

Well that's weird. I don't think I ever defended genocide. What comments were removed?

Removed Comment To quote Wikipedia: >The most common form of this fallacy is "A" makes a claim of "fact," to which "B" asserts that "A" has a personal trait, quality or physical attribute that is repugnant thereby going entirely off-topic, and hence "B" concludes that "A" has their "fact" wrong - without ever addressing the point of the debate. I fulfilled one part of an ad hominem—I asserted (implied, but whatever) that you have a personal trait, quality, or physical attribute. This is not enough to accuse me of committing ad hominem, because I fulfilled no other portions of it. I never implied that the fact that you are relatively young is a negative trait, I never concluded that you were wrong because of it, and I did address the main point of the debate. Calling someone young or stupid or naive isn't ad hominem if I then go on to explain why what they're saying is incorrect.

I don't see any genocide defense here. Sybil didn't know what an ad hominem attack was, and I was clarifying it. Weird comment to remove, but ok.

Removed Comment No, I'm attacking what you said by calling it naive. I never once intimated that your belief was wrong because you were young. I also think that anyone above the age of 22 who doesn't vote Biden is also wrong. It has nothing to do with age. I was simply giving you the benefit of the doubt by assuming you'd never been burned by voting third party before. Am I wrong to do that? Are you actually stupid, and not naive?

I was a bit rude towards the end, but still not seeing the genocide defense.

Removed Comment I was young once too. Eventually you'll figure out that the party that got 1% of the vote last time isn't suddenly gonna sweep it with 51% this time. Every single person who has a nonzero chance of being president next year supports Israel, so you should vote based on what the best possible outcome is.

And that's it. I didn't defend genocide at all, all I said was that we should vote for Biden (it was a different time) because the only possible alternative was Trump, and Trump will make the ongoing genocide worse than Biden would. I would like to congratulate the moderators of blahaj again for successfully preventing a Biden/Harris presidency, ensuring the total annihilation of the Palestinian people. Good job, people of Palestine salute you. Morons.

Lol

They have the best memes but the worst mods

You don't need to go anywhere, apparently, any comment on any instance that federates with blahaj already grants you a participation ticket.

Lemmy is like that snake that feeds on itself. What's it called again? Ouroboros? No the other one, human centipede, that's the one

It's not like a shadow ban. It's just a normally instance ban. A shadowban is by definition invisible to to the affected party. This is very much immediately visible through the modlog.

My greater point is that it's dishonest to liken this to a shadow ban due to the secretive connotations of the latter and the way this paints the admins who gave it out

How do you know they don't see your comments?

Thanks. I could probably use my own advice, too. That last bit of mine could have been worded better.

So would you say to women that they should just get over discrimination and harassment in the workplace because it's inclusive, for example? I'm sure you can think of some more extreme examples that go beyond that both in magnitude and into parts of a person's identity beyond gender.

Please understand that marginalized groups already receive special, negative treatment. Claiming that they're being included by ignoring those very real parts of their lives doesn't sit well with me. If you are the type of friend that ignores the suffering of the people you are close to and treats others well only so far as they are "normal" and don't require special treatment, that won't make a fuss when you call them names or make them the butt of a joke to be "inclusive", then I don't envy the people in your life, bucko.

Tankies don't do perma bans tho... They do 1 month gulag for disrespect to daddy shepooh.

They're based asf for that. I've said a lot of things that triggered the tankies on ml and it's just been 2-5 day bans.

How are people even banning someone who never commented on their sub anyway? I tried to do that once in retaliation because I'm a petty bitch but couldn't figure it out.

I assure you, they do permabans

I didn’t know if the mod log was replicated among instances or not. I was always curious how you’d know if another instance banned you.

It usually is. If you don't get paid, a bit of arbitrary power is kind of expected.

modding based on contex, don’t be silly.

You hurt those in the community. Which is why you were banned.

I was posting in support of inclusive language, but pointing out that context and convention matter.

You went in to a trans space, and told people who did not like to be called dude, to get over it dude. By and large, trans women do not appreciate being called dude. You are within your right to think it's gender neutral, but those that constantly have their gendered denied do not feel the same. You ignored the context of the community you were saying that in.

The fact that even a year later, you are standing by your right to call people dude who do not want it shows how deserved the shadowban was and how little you actually care about "inclusive language".

I've had to leave like 4 LGBTQ spaces on reddit because the insane mods wanted Minor Attracted People to be accepted and validated.

I'm not interested in contributing to their instance anymore if they can't fucking keep the place clean.

All i asked at first was "this doesn't include Minor Attracted People right?" and they started removing my comments instead of being capable of saying "no we won't allow those people to validate themselves here"