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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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All posts should follow this basic structure:
- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
- Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
- Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
- Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
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- Post only about bans or other sanctions that you have received from a mod or admin.
- Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
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- You can post about power trippin’ in any social media, not just lemmy. Feel free to post about reddit or a forum etc.
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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.
YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.
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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Oh whoa, this is a really good point.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/drop-site-news-bias-and-credibility/
High credibility, mostly factual.
@[email protected] ?
Blog, we don't allow blogs.
Is WordPress a blog?
WordPress is more of an editor than a blog. But because just anyone can set up a Wordpress site, we'e block that too.
So you block the New York Times, Time, Bloomberg, Wired, Vogue?
No, because they aren't hosted on Wordpress. Different deal.
Personally though, if I were making the rules? I would block NYT, Wired, and others because of the paywall bullshit. It's a wasted click to just get a paywall.
You are making up the rules as you go along so might as well block those too!
IDK what I expected lol...
It is not a blog. I understand you along with the rest of LW mods are incapable of admitting error or saying anything along the lines of "Oh, you're right, it's clearly a professional news organization with credentials from the exact agency we have chosen to vet our news organizations, I didn't realize that, we can allow it going forward." So I won't make the futile effort to expect that of you.
If they don't want to be associated with blogs, they're free to register a domain and go fully independent.
A domain like dropsitenews.com?
Nope! See bottom of page:
Not that any of this matters, but they did do their own domain registration it looks like, through Squarespace. Check whois. They just have it pointed at Substack right now presumably because they don't want to invest the resources in a whole web dev or admin team.
But again, it doesn't matter. The whole issue of "are they associated with blogs" or "who is their DNS registration processed by" is a stupid waste of time to talk about, created only by your inability to admit any error. They are a reliable source (as far as I can tell at least), and only someone casting about for irrelevant reasons to pretend they are not because they're dug into that position would try to claim otherwise.
Just as general advice, being willing to reverse yourself when new information comes to light makes you more credible. Definitely not less. It increases your authority level, because people will take you seriously because it means you take yourself and your own statements seriously, and shows you want to get them right. Not that you're just saying whatever and then stubbornly refusing to hear anything different. I think you should try it. Although, of course, it's up to you.
That takes you to the main substack page. It doesn't let you add an article to dropsitenews.
Kind of like having a facebook or twitter link doesn't mean you can add to the website you are viewing.
Dumbass.
We don't allow Facebook or Twitter pages either. :)
Good thing that wasn't what was being discussed, are you pretending to be illiterate?
Having a link to your Facebook/Twitter at the bottom of your website is ancient practice at this point and does not mean your content is hosted there
No, I'm tired of dealing with all the bullshit here so I'm just fucking with you now.
We don't link to blogs, they're a substack blog. Deal with it. Don't like it? Fuck off.
I'm talking about links like this dipshit. Does this mean AP is a twitter site?