this post was submitted on 20 Dec 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.

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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.


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  1. Post in [email protected] attacks the entire concept of AI safety as a made-up boogeyman
  2. I disagree and am attacked from all sides for "posting like an evangelist"
  3. I give citations for things I thought would be obvious, such as that AI technology in general has been improving in capability compared to several years ago
  4. Instance ban, "promptfondling evangelist"

This one I'm not aggrieved about as much, it's just weird. It's reminiscent of the lemmy.ml type of echo chamber where everyone's convinced it's one way, because in a self-fulfilling prophecy, anyone who is not convinced gets yelled at and receives a ban.

Full context: https://ponder.cat/post/1030285 (Some of my replies were after the ban because I didn't PT Barnum carefully enough, so didn't realize.)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's actually covered by the existing TOS. There's affirmative support for the standards of:

  • Welcoming attitude and approach,
  • Rational debate and discussion,
  • Genuine exchanges of ideas,

And under "What is Unacceptable," it lists "authoritarianism," and advocating or encouraging "the spread of behavior that is designed to overturn the standards described so far." I'd say this absolutely qualifies as advocacy for both authoritarianism in moderation, and overturning the ideas of welcoming participants to a rational discussion and genuine exchange of ideas. You might not have been aware of it, mistakes happen, but it is on you.

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

Alright well, I'll have my popcorn bucket ready when db0 defederates from awful.systems for "authoritarianism" over snark coms. Keep me posted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, no, I didn't mean the whole instance, I just meant you. I think trying to strive for standards of open discussion across the whole rest of the Lemmy world would be a hopeless task. Just a special case to ban any person who really openly expresses approval for mods banning people just because it's snarky to do so, though, I think is a nice way to illustrate the real meaning of what they're so openly expressing, when the snark is directed at the other boojum.

I'll leave it up to the mods here if they want to stoop to that level, of course. I think the point is made.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Alright, sure.

I'll bite.

(edit: my eating popcorn picture isn't working and I gave up making it work)