Some people are gonna give you grief about this, but you raise an interesting point. I was just talking about this the other day with my gf and my son over a vegetarian dinner we were having. There is more and more research about plants be more intelligent (for lack of better word) than we thought before. Still kinda taboo in science circles, but it is being discussed and looking into.
Credit to you, sister. Coming here, updating your opinion and reporting it, is awesome. We need more mods like that.
trolls can create an impersonation account and act like an insane arsehole trolls can report that account as being an alt of universal monk
Yep! I'm pretty sure I've even wrote to admin of this instance to point out when someone started impersonating me. It got to be so many accounts that I stopped doing that though.
At peak UM hate, there were something like 45 instances with my name that were not me. Some guy hated me so much he'd make a list of all the instances, and post it to every conversation I was involved in. lol
Also saw a few fun ones like, "REALUniversalMonk" and "UniMonk" and "UniversalMonksHairyArse" or something like that, but those never lasted long because they'd just get banned immediately when they posted weird ass nazi shit anyway.
It's pretty much died down recently. Most people know I post just from this one, sh.itjust.works and piefed.feddit. This is my main one tho, because...pirates!
I was on slrpnk, but to your point, a mob campaign started, so the admin there gave me a heads up they were banning and deleting me. Even tho I had never posted anything political at all from that account. But he gave me time to switch everything over before he deleted all my stuff, so he's cool people.
To be honest, I'm surprised that admins even let my name be started on other instances now!
Lemmy.world will send notices but not all instances do.
Must be recent, when I was banned they didn't give me a notice. They eventually wrote an entire post about it, but never let me know directly.
That’s a major flaw in lemmy. No ban notifications.
Agreed!
Motherfuck, you write more than I do. I fucking love it. Don't stop! You are def adding content to this discussion and it's given me a lot to think about!
the good thing is that their censorship results in free thinkers ending up here haha
great point! lol
Evidentially, you have a bunch of accounts on a bunch of different instances, unless you are suggesting you can somehow bad UM@. or something…
I've never hid the fact that I am on more than one instance. I gave a list. I'm on here, sh.just.works, and pifed-feddit. Lots of people are. Blaze, one of Lemmy's most respected and proflic posters has multiple accounts. That's not in any way against any rules. Every post I have made on every instance is public. I also used to be on .world. My profile is still on there too. Check the dates of my posts, that's public too.
I use my same username. Same profile. Same content. I can't ban-evade, because it's my same fucking name.
OP is not banned in any of my communities. OP has not mentioned me at all. I am not the subject of OP's complaint. I never heard of the guy.
Very easy to ban my username. Ya don't even have to do it all at once. Just anytime ya see a post or comment, click ban user. Takes 3 seconds. Never see my post again. Even if I was on 100 instances, it'd be easy.
Notice tho how many here hate me, talk shit about me but haven't blocked me. Why do you think that is? Notice how they haven't posted ANY PROOF that I am the other person or any other person. They always give a history of why people don't like me, or links of people not liking me. But never any proof or valid reasoning that I use different names. Fuck all, I'm here right now posting. I don't need alt names. I haven't been banned from here (yet), so why would I need an alt name? I post all over Lemmy, why would I need an alt name? I can ban people right now from communities I have started. In fact, I have banned plenty of people from communities. But not OP.
They say I sent harrasing DM's. Ok, well as we can see by OP, you can post harassing DM's. So let's see some of these harassing DM's I've sent.
They say there was a rant that the musk guy said that was word-for-word mine. Ok, where? I looked but didn't see that. Never proof how of me being someone else. You know why? Cuz I'm not.
And to the naysayers that will opinion that it's impossible to prove someone has an alt name, then why bring it up? So is just talking shit about someone you don't like, in some OP's non-related thread a cool thing now? Seems bad form to me.
If you wanna think I am someone else, then fine. But it's not fair to OP to have this entire thread be about me, since he didn't even mention me.
If someone has a problem with how I mod my communities, and many do, then why don't they start a fucking post here about me?! Seems like they should have lots of proof and complaints, so yeah let's start one about me. As we can see by this thread, it'll probably get a bajillion upvotes about how much I suck. So think of all the good internet points someone can get! lol
But make it a separate one, let's not hijack this guy's thread.
All: I get that you all really enjoy busting my balls, and it's fun to speculate. But OP hasn't mentioned me. OP is not banned from any of my communities. None of what OP is talking about has anything to do with me.
In this thread (at the time I'm writing this), there are maybe 2 or 3 replies about the actual OP complaint. The rest are about me and how I have ruined Lemmy. Cool story bro, but NOT cool to the original poster.
Have some respect for OP. How'd you feel if you posted what you thought was a valid complaint, then the whole fucking thread devolved into talking about an entirely different subject?
You don't need to voice ur suspicion that you think I'm the OP or the mod or whatever the fuck latest Universal Monk Eats Russian Cock for Bitcoin conspiracy is or that I am for sure, positive, without a doubt, ok well 90 percent sure every single boogy man you hate. We get it.
Most n00bs don't give a fuck that I didn't carefully shave and suck Biden's nutsack while looking up into his thoughtful loving eyes and saying, 'I love capitalism daddy Biden, I love it.' Stick to the subject of OP's situation, and calm the fuck down. Talking about me seems to be way off-topic.
I'm not the conservative mod that OP is talking about. Why in the world would I have two completely different personas on opposite sides of the political spectrum? Why would I post hundreds of socialist and pro-union articles, then go post conservative shit under another name? Y'all have lost your damn minds.
You could argue voting third party in a swing state is “Pro-Trump” but if the state is above 60% one party, your vote does not matter on the federal level.
GREAT point! Now that you mention it, that is where all the talk about me being conservative started. The problem is, people keep repeating that label without the original context. So when someone sees those comments—without knowing the backstory—they just assume it’s true. Then it spreads. A new person comes along, asks why everyone’s talking about me, and others just repeat the same line. As we are seeing happen in real-time in this very thread.
Really good insight, mate. Honestly, I should’ve pointed that out in my replies, but I’d kind of forgotten where it all started. Still baffles me that people think that, in spite of the fact that I created and moderate Socialist Workers Party communities, started anarchy spaces, and run several socialist groups.
Genuinely is funny that you have entire groups of people who hate you, write scripts to track you, gather logs to “document your evils” of posting things online, and you just keep going on.
Right?! Even tho the election was several months ago, they're still mad that I "threw" it. Me. One guy who voted socialist, ruined all of America. Hmmm, lets overlook the fact that non-voters outnumbered all of us third party voters by a huge fucking margin. Even if all third parties voted Harris, she would have lost. But nah, fuck that logic. It's my fault! lmao
He hasn't responded to any of the posts in the thread. Neither has the mod.
Spoiler alert: OP and that mod are the same guy and this is a social experiment in mob-think and he's just mindfucking everybody.
Spoiler spoiler alert: Everyone thinks it's me and the three of us are all the same person doing it.
Spoiler spoiler spoiler alert: OP, the mod, you, and me are me, but I'm also most of the comments in this thread because everyone knows I am every Lemmy. Everyone is my alt!! We're all me! Fuckin' glorious.
(/s in case not obvious)
Actually weren't you around back in the day of the original hate too?! Have I lied any of my responses to people here?! I have always advocated for third-party voting, independent thoughts, seeing both sides of arguments, allowing opposing opinions, etc. All my posts are public!
It used to be, 'Universal Monk is from russia. He posted an article about the Green Party. He's in Putin's pocket. He'll be gone right after the election! Just you wait and see!' One time a guy posted a chart of all the exact times I posted, looking at the time and decided that I was in Russia in the middle of the night, posting shit to match time zones up with Minnesota daytimes and make it look like I worked 9 to 5 or some shit.
Now they're saying I'm conservative and all my thousands of posts about piracy, anarchy, socialism, workers rights, etc is just a ploy! A ploy to...to..... to.... to... Wait! A ploy to rule the world? No. Oh! A ploy to get rich!! No, no one has even heard of Lemmy. Oh I get it! A ploy to spoil the election! Oh wait, election is over, and the number of non-voters far outweigh any third party voters
Oh! It's so I can ban people for downvoting as I cosplay Don Musk. The fuck are people here thinking?! lol
What’s the evidence these are the same people?
Notice how this is never answered. There is no evidence, because it's not true. Why interrupt a good Universal Monk hatefest with logic? lol
Hey, brother, you do you. Fight the power! I have no issues with ya, mate.
I'm only going by the information that the OP posted. OP did say '...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.' and then he goes on to admit 'Sure it was a dick move to poke the bear about his lifestyle of only posting things that get downvoted'
So it seems like he posted to just get a reaction. And it looks like he dm'd the mod first, making fun of him and mod responded. But neither he or the OP have responded to any of the comments in the thread, so we have no idea of what's really going on.
Most of my communities are here on dbzer0 and sh.itjustworks, so I have no desire to move. But I did hear that a new update was coming up to allow more tools for mods. Maybe what you are suggesting is in there?
Actually no. I have nothing to do with OP or the communities he was banned from. He's not banned from any of my communities. I don't have any alt names. I have this name on alt instances, but no alt names. And all my posts on all my instances are public.
Good point, but if the admin doesn't disable downvotes like you are saying, then the mod can't do anything about that. It would be cool if mods had the ability to disable downvotes.
Yea, I actualy am not bright enough to have a solution. I just see that Lemmy is just becoming more and more toxic because of how people are using their votes to control narratives lately.
Ahh, ok, I get ya now. That's true. But you can't post to a place you've been banned, so it wouldn't remain shadow-banned in the common use of the term. You'd find out then.
To your point, silent banning happens for sure. Has happened to me a lot.
Well because the line of thinking is that if you are banned, then have start on a different instance and post on the place where you are banned, it's ban-evading. Just giving you the heads up. I personally don't care if you post here or not, I have no issues with you. Just saying that you are sorta admitting out loud to ban-evading.