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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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- 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).
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- 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.
- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
- BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
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Oh geez, it gets even worse.
According to the mod @[email protected], even just advocating an end to genocide is worthy of a ban. Like, when you're really specific and say you're talking about ending institutions that are doing genocide rather than people, that gets you a ban.
And so is calling out a person who is advocating for genocide by their choice to silence anti-genocide views. (Officially, my ban was for being mean, but let's be honest, the real reason is that they felt called out over their support for genocide.)
Is [email protected] still around?
Seems to be. It's certainly where I'd prefer to post, although it's not clear to me what its intent is. What makes "world" news? Non-American? That's my assumption for the LW one. But on quokk.au is it non-Australian?
Regardless, where I choose to post doesn't help when I'm commenting on another post. Which is most often the case in any world news Community.
From my understanding, it's the world without restriction.
US News, if it ever spams up the feed with minutiae articles would be put to a vote. It seems to be working well so far. We have a diverse range of international media sources and I have even see some Unicorn Riot articles.
Alternatively, stupid fucking users can't tell the difference between removing calls to violence and supporting genocide.
Then they get butthurt over a temp ban for repeated rule 6 violations.
If you're going to participate in a community, READ THE FUCKING RULES.
"Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time."
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=135438
And yet when I went point by point explaining how the comment that you banned the other user for clearly was not a call to violence, you banned me instead. You still have not attempted to justify how you believe it was a call to violence.
In the absence of even an attempt to justify you actions otherwise, the only obvious interpretation is that you want to avoid criticism of Israel's genocide.
The grand irony of you calling another user stupid is rich.
Or reading the rules
So... if I'm reading this correctly, simply observing the fact of moderator's existence is against the rules under the sole discretion of the moderator-being-regarded? And the exclusive written remedy for this infraction is the removal of the relevant comment? And you don't see a conflict of personal and professional interest or how the combination of your actions and the rules are perceived to be a power trip.
Wait we can't question mod actions now??
What about the violence it is okay to advocate though? That's okay, right?
Why is that? Maybe you could outline that a little more clearly, because the implicit rule is clashing with the explicit rule here, and some clarification would I'm sure cut down on the need for mod work.
Fuck your stupid rules that restrict Palestinians right