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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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The whole post seems strange to me, what do you all think?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't pretend to even begin to understand a lot of the details here especially about the game itself (though I thought you made an excellent point about the "off season" to explain why the lower amount of posts was a temporary situation), but if it helps to hear an outsider's perspective, wouldn't the whole situation have been received better if you had offered a counterargument to the comment rather than simply remove it, i.e. as the recent LW announcement post was saying?

Though ultimately a mod's community belongs to them and they shouldn't have to put up with advertisements to other competitors in it if they don't want. Was Blaze spamming such comments over and over rather than this being the first time? Did he ask and get permission first to promote the new community, or have some reason to think that the other had been abandoned? (Maybe that's the "off-season" relevance part) - except even if the community had been, your account as a mod is still active, so why not ask you first?

Sadly it seems like there is some kind of communication breakdown between the two of you. Blaze is not perfect and even if meaning well, seems to have overstepped here - being a mod of one community does not entitle someone to make decisions about some other community. So that's on him, but to state the obvious: just make sure that your reactions in return are up to your own standards, rather than allow the feelings of betrayal win the day.

It seems this could have been handled so much better on both sides. And yes, that's easy for me to say from so far away, while much harder to do when it's my own cherished works on the line:-).

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I typically post about the North American league, which starts this Saturday. The professional scene is usually pretty quiet between November and January (inclusive).

https://lolesports.com/en-US?leagues=lta_n

The lemm.ee community effectively didn't exist 16 days ago.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Then that is on Blaze for assuming things wrongly (best case scenario, unless there is evidence for worse). However, you posted that announcement saying that Lemmy.World mods must use words rather than going straight for the moderation tools right? So this isn't a good look to use one set of rules for others but a different set for yourself? Admittedly I am too far away from this to see it properly, though if it helps, it does look like both of you made missteps here.

If they're just saying something you don't like, respectfully, and they're not spamming it, use your words instead of your moderation abilities.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Thank you. I don't always give good advice but if this one helps all parties involved then I'll be glad.:-)