this post was submitted on 10 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.
Rules
- Post only about bans or other sanctions from mod(s).
- Provide the cause of the sanction (e.g. the text of the comment).
- Provide the reason given by the mods for the sanction.
- Don't use private communications to prove your point. We can't verify them and they can be faked easily.
- Don't deobfuscate mod names from the modlog with admin powers.
- Don't harass mods or brigade comms. Don't word your posts in a way that would trigger such harassment and brigades.
- Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.
- You can post about power trippin' in any social media, not just lemmy. Feel free to post about reddit or a forum etc.
Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
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.
Some acronyms you might see.
- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
- YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
- BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
- CLM - Clueless mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.
Relevant comms
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MODERATORS
Moderators are gardeners and each community is an allotment. Some gardeners want wonderful flowers, some want heart veggies, some even want extra spicy peppers.
If a moderator makes it clear what the rules are for the garden, and they follow their own published rules... Then they are being a good gardener. If you buy a ticket for the tropical arboretum and when you get inside you see they haven't been weeding, then you would be rightly upset.
Lemmy is wonderful because so many voices can be heard in many places on different topics. Everyone here saying 'yes it was against the rules, but that shouldn't matter in this case' is being unfair to the moderator who is behaving reasonably.
There is no shortage of communities here where people can be as spicy as they want to be.
I love reading your comments here. So many people lately keep trying to tell others what to do, with so few reflecting the spirit that "I may not agree with you (or whatever, regardless), but I'll defend to the death your right to do it." Ironically the mob mentality reminds me of the simplicity of fascist thinking. Person 1: "Spin up an instance, create a community, or just use different words and you can do whatever you want!" Person 2: "No, you will do as I say, and like it."