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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.
Posting Guidelines
All posts should follow this basic structure:
- 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).
- Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
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- Post only about bans or other sanctions that you have received from a mod or admin.
- 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.
- If you are the accused PTB, while you are welcome to respond, please do so within the relevant post.
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.
YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.
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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I understand abuse of reporting to apply for repeated frivolous reporting, sending spam, or similar.
This report could simply be ignored until something else happens.
A user reporting something doesn’t know how the mods decide. Mods will always receive reports, where they don’t think taking action is necessary.
Think what‘s your definition of abuse of report button?
So: PTB
I probably have a little different view of the social contract and responsibility of communication than other people. Again, not trying to repost someone's private communication, but when I asked them more or less "What's the justification for this report?" they weren't open to trying to justify it, just told me to do my own research. More or less. To me, probably more than other people, that's a huge sin. You need to have reasons for what you say, you need to be open to defending it if someone semi-politely asks you to, especially when your statement is calling for sanctions from authority or anything like that. It's part of being responsible with your communication and building a good community to be a part of.
Like I said, it helps that my perception is that there is "repeated" harassment of FlyingSquid in various forms. It means that any single report, even if it comes from an account that hasn't been doing any of it, forms part of a pattern of spam like you're talking about. But, I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt, and talk to the person and see if they were open to saying "That's a fair thing to ask me, I take it seriously, here is my defense of what I did / what I said." Again that's just my view on integrity of communication. I might disagree or agree with the defense, and either one is mostly fine, but if someone's like "it's not my responsibility, I just spew statements into the world and it's your problem to figure out if they are bullshit or not, without my help," they instantly go to the bottom of my shit-list. And, if they're already on thin ice because we're having the conversation because they're using my volunteer hardware to violate Lemmy's norms and that's why we're having the conversation in the first place...
flat-out, I tell people not to dm me, even mods who have a problem with my reports. i do make an exception for my admins, but that's it.