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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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  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
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All from in this thread in [email protected] about a chant at a British music festival where an artist said "death, death to the IDF".

After other users were quoting that chant in the comments and had comments removed and banned, the hero of our story, @[email protected] (appearing as "acargitz") pointed out that under international law, fighting an occupying force is legitimate. But apparently not under world news rules, as their removed comments and the many explanations from mods make clear in the thread.

Equally against the rules is the call for the eradication of an organisation or business, even without an explicit call to violence against individual members of the business.

In the same thread: user @[email protected] had comments removed for being anti-American "(again)", though I couldn't see the first time. It's not even clear to me how the removed comments were anti-American.

Bonus points for the "DC Comics" removal reason. Though this seems to be incompetence, rather than malice.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

Rule fucking six:

"regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.""

This you?

Unlike other mods you bullied off Lemmy, I cannot be bullied. Take your bitch ass to Jon like you did with Wren, go on, I fucking DARE you.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (46 children)

Ipsos custodes ipsos, hon

If you want yo be so unaccountable you literally punish people for acknowledging that you exist you are definitionally a power tripping bastard.

Hell, that goes beyond 'power tripping bastard on the internet'. This reads as a textbook symptom of some seriously fucked shit. You are very likely Not Well. See if help exists and is accessible in your area.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It took me way too long to find and unsubscribe from all the communities you moderate.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I like how every chance you get, you choose to avoid addressing the actual issue of why you're banning users for breaking a rule that they very clearly did not break. You choose to concentrate on the part where I hurt your feelings 😭 instead of the underlying lie that the other user was inciting violence in the comment that got them banned.

Take your bitch ass to Jon like you did with Wren, go on, I fucking DARE you.

Lol, nice job completely misreading what happened there... I have to assume it's on purpose.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Unlike other mods you bullied off Lemmy, I cannot be bullied. Take your bitch ass to Jon like you did with Wren, go on, I fucking DARE you.

Tho you're wrong in this thread, I do admire that spunk! I can appreciate anyone refusing to be bullied off of Lemmy; lots of people tried to bully me off of Lemmy. So definitely don't leave Lemmy.

But alas, it's .world, so I'm gonna have to say PTB! Because .world is one of the most toxic instances on Lemmy, and your comm is one of the most toxic comms.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The grand irony of you calling another user stupid is rich.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wait we can't question mod actions now??

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (32 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

Fuck your stupid rules that restrict Palestinians right

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