this post was submitted on 02 Nov 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.
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Public moderation logs was a fantastic idea.
They keep delivering
Yeah i just wish it showed which mod did what action tho
It used to, I believe the option to anonymize the acting moderator was added in at some point
Yeah its a setting in admin panel. Defaults to anonymouse unfortunatly tho
They did it that way on purpose hoping more people would use it accidentally rather than it being a desired thing to use.
Yeah i dont like it goes against the open philosophy of lemmy imo
Same way with private votes, oh and they also want to force servers to manually review all user sign-ups (devs have literally said that to me) even for servers which can handle automatic creation and have spam protection bots in place.
A lot of things they do are surprisingly against the open nature of Lemmy and the fediverse as a whole.
Votes fundamentally cant be private due to the way Activpub works otherwise anyone with an instance can spoof an arbitrary amount pf votes (u can do this with extra accounts but its a whole proccess).
I think its cos the devs have very strong political opinions and are only now realising they are losing control of the narrative due to said open nature. The open nature of federation (and the free speach it enables) is our best strength that has the capability to reshape the digital narrative towards a free (as in freedom) and inclusive future.
Federarion is everythibg web3.0 promised to be but with blackjack and hookers.
Seems reasonable to avoid mod harassment
Then there needs to be modmail. There had to be a way to reach "a representative"
Maybe if people keep yelling at Dessalines about mod tools he'll do more work for free.
I dunno, I'm from the really old days of forums where you either had an alt account to moderate with, or where the penalties for harassing a mod over a moderation action was a kos
I kinda feel like it should be the norm for it to be public, but there's a line to be drawn somewhere to disallow endless arguments about it
What's a kos? Kick off server?
Kill on sight; like an IP ban, but if you made an alt account to get around it, that account would get banned too
I've moderated a number of communities on a number of platforms over the years and I've never seen it be a problem. I don't think it's worth losing accountability.
I don't think that it should list which individual removed the content, but it should at least say if the removal was done by "[instance] admins" or "[comm] mods".