this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2025
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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.
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Short bans are like spritzing a cat in the face. It's Skinnerian conditioning. It works.
Just make sure the behavior you're conditioning for is the behavior you want. Trolling doesn't mean "harsh language." Trolling is the infuriating nonsense that makes reasonable people reach for harsh language. Sometimes, a rude response is entirely deserved.
... right. that's incivility.
what is the criteria when clear incivility is justified?
Fuck civility. "Be nice or die" is a gift to cautious bastards. It's a formula for bait.
People need the ability to bluntly call horseshit, when faced with horseshit. Polite phrasing of said horseshit makes it worse. It creates the dynamic of bullying, where an honest response to abuse is treated as justification for that abuse.
Demanding that every response should take ten times more effort, all of which will be ignored, is a rule crafted for trolls. If someone can keep going 'oh so you mean [not what you said]? wow that's ridiculous and awful and pushes me further right,' and any sane reply like 'shut up, troll' is what gets banned, then the rules favor and protect fffucking obvious trolling. And yet: that's what too many moderators choose. Spotting rude language is easier. A forum free of blunt responses feels like you're helping.
But it's fundamentally not rewarding honesty, accuracy, or actual constructive conversation. It's pretending that bad faith doesn't exist.
this is the definition of bad faith. just report it.
Doesn't work.
Unsurprisingly, the moderators who basically just Ctrl+F "fuck you" are reliably useless at removing polite abuse. In practice they protect and encourage it. I have been told numerous times, on this site and others, to just use my words and continue arguing with what must surely be a completely reasonable... sneering goblin. Some of those same moderators have chided me for continuing an argument. They don't know what they want and it's gonna be your fault. Especially if you say something unforgivable, like: "I'm out."
we are taking about the moderation of this community, and there is only one mod
I'm talking about moderation in general.