this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2024
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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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Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.


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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Isn’t this the same dude that insists on referring to himself in the third person as “drag”?

[–] AngryCommieKender 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

He has to be the most downvoted person on all of Lemmy.

[–] trashgirlfriend 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You forgot the ye olde english guy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t think I’ve run into him yet, do I wanna know, or is it something I should remain blissfully unaware of as long as possible?

[–] trashgirlfriend 18 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

I think they don't post as much anymore but it was one person who kept posting while using the letter thorn (Þ, pronounced th as in the), people kept complaining that it made their posts less legible.

They ended up doubling down and incorporating other archaic letters, and over time they ended up writing all of their posts in very unreadable archaic writing.

[–] logi 3 points 4 hours ago

Not the point, but didn't they use þ for the th in "three"? And then ð for that in "the"? That's their usage in Icelandic and I don't remember them using the letters differently. But my memory isn't worth much.

[–] VindictiveJudge 4 points 4 hours ago

On the one hand, bringing back letters like thorn could help improve the readability of English by making it more clear what sound each character represents, especially for people learning English as a second language. We only dropped those letters because early movable type sets only included Latin letters, forcing printers to make do with sometimes unintuitive letter combos. But on the other hand, trying to force it by posting on Lemmy isn't going to accomplish anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

That's fucking hilarious I love him

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

“You know what? I’m just gonna make it impossible to understand a thing I say. That’ll show you all!”

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

there's a load of accounts from either the same user (probably) or the same few users (possibly) including but not limited to hardlightcereal, dronerights, exocrinous, grail, mindtraveller, dragonfucker whose purpose is to make up mad gimmicks and claim anyone who doesn't humour them is bigoted against australian soulist otherkin narcissists. it's very funny

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Lol how did you piece all that together? Because that's exactly what's going on imo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

i don't normally pay close attention to usernames but bizarre shit stands out and you can see each account using similar talking points until they get banned or bored and a new one takes over eventually posting the same stuff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I had to google what some of those words mean. Are you telling me that this person means the "dragonfucker" literally? That they identify as a dragon?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

it would be a drag to presume to speak for drag but drag will probably drag drag's self along to explain drag's drag act in drag's own time

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

Probably not, because we banned drag on this instance due to the endless trolling and drama drag was causing. It's a shame some of the trans communities haven't yet realized that drag is making a mockery of neo-pronouns in order to stir up as much drama as possible.

Oh well, drag will have moved onto some other hot topic and another username soon enough, no doubt, and will likely suck in another bunch of well-meaning users who buy into drag's shtick. Drag hasn't tried pretending to be blind yet, for example, so we probably have that to look forward to at some stage.

I'm still respecting drag's preferred pronoun just in the off chance drag is genuinely trans though - and I'd encourage other users to also do this. But let's be real here - trans folks have their fair share of drama farmers and trolls, just like any other demographic. It's not a free pass to be an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

One thing to note is that drag might be therian. The gist of it is that sometimes the brain glitches out and finds it easier to relate to other species of animals, real or not, than other humans. Therianthropy can even go as far as causing people to have phantom tails, ears, etc. No idea why, it just kinda happens.

It's one of those things that sounds weird and is hard to relate to or understand if you've never experienced it; so it gets a bad rap. That and there are ~~animal abusers~~ zoophiles who try to use it as a nicer way of saying, "I like ~~abusing animals~~ bestiality". It sucks.

That said, there's nothing wrong with being therian if you're being legit about it, imo it's just another form of neurodivergence. Though, I'm not sure if I totally agree with trying to force people to accept it by using "drag" pronouns, buuuuut I guess you could say the same about me wanting people to use she/her instead of he/him. If being referred to as "drag" makes drag happy, then w/e I guess.

Edit: imo, if you wanna screw with drag, just accept drag for who drag is. If drag is really looking for attention, then drag will get bored or annoyed. On the other hand, if drag actually needs that kind of affirmation, then you're doing a good thing for drag. You're honestly probably making drag feel amazing by using the correct pronouns.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

If dragonfucker doesn't want to be known as dragonfucker, then they need to make a new account. And if the name dragonfucker is offensive by itself then the user with that name needs to be banned.

https://lemmy.nz/u/dragonfucker

You can check dragonfucker is their literal username

I think the mod who removed the comment may not have realized Dragonfucker is the username and not a insult.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 12 hours ago

That's not even power tripping, that's pure stupidity

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure what to judge this one to be honest, but seems weird to remove a comment because someone uses another person's username

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

They restored the comment. Mistakes happen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Thanks, I'll update the title

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

After saying both that they didn't know if they changed the display name, and that the team is more than aware of that person. Bullshit, you can't have it both ways.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Is the mod is saying the offending user changed the comment to reflect the target's username or that the target changed their username to justify the offenders comment? If it's the former, there might be something we're not seeing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Impossible to say. I have no idea who changed what to match what. Here's the context, you can see it doesn't help: https://lemm.ee/comment/16738479

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

There is nothing wrong with being a dragonfucker. Anyone who perceives that as an insult and not a badge of honor needs help. u.u

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You just have remember, most of these guys created subs so they could be mods, not because they wanted a place where a community could coalesce and discuss ideas.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

This isn't even that kind of community, it's the announcements community for the whole instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

folks should leave lemmy.world

They trippin harder and harder each day

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago