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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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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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PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
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I'm gonna get real with you folks, we've had way too many of these posts recently. I've been reflecting on this topic a lot the past few days. For me personally, I couldn't care less about my gender identity. But just because that's true for me, doesn't make that true for everyone.

The beauty of the fediverse is that if you don't like the way a particular instance or community is moderated you can simply choose another to hang out on, or create your own.

Blajah has made it pretty clear by now they will ban anyone who argues against the validity of xenogenders, in order to create a safe space for those folks. That's fair enough imo.

Safe spaces should be respected, and Blajah's admins/mods do not deserve abuse for creating and maintaining those spaces.

I can completely understand why Blajah users don't want to have to constantly argue with external users about the validity of their chosen identities. Bans are one way Blajah has decided to manage that problem so that their users can experience lemmy in relative peace and safety. While it is a blunt tool and I have my reservations about preemptive bans, there are not many other options for @[email protected], other than defederation from most instances. That would be a terrible outcome for the fediverse as a whole.

In order to help Blajah to maintain their safe space, I would like to propose, if @[email protected] agrees and community sentiment is positive:

that we no longer accept posts about this topic in this community; and
we also remove previous posts on this topic from the community.

That's all folks, have at 'er.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

The way I see it, is that the rules and aim of the instance are all written out pretty fucking clearly and people on a platform dominated by longform text don't really have an excuse for not being able to comprehend it. Like seriously, I had been using Lemmy for two days when I checked out Blåhaj, and I feel like I understood then already because it's not hard and English is my native language.

So that said, when I see people complaining about it, I think they're either fucking stupid, or they're probably these 'free speech' people that want the right to go around insulting everyone without consequences (while doing the most epic pearl clutching the moment anyone insults them).

As far as I'm concerned, moderators and admins doing exactly what is clearly fucking written in the description and rules is not power abuse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Someone was banned yesterday who didn't even participate in the instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

That person seems to be an alt wanted to rehash the whole 196 debacle

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39114269/17051352

[+] [email protected] -6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

So that said, when I see people complaining about it, I think they’re either fucking stupid, or they’re probably these ‘free speech’ people that want the right to go around insulting everyone without consequences (while doing the most epic pearl clutching the moment anyone insults them).

I was accused of being a transphobe on a comm that wasn't even in Blahaj. I defended myself. For that, I was banned. Another poster, a trans user, made a comment. For that, they were dogpiled by Blahaj defenders, called a fascist and a transphobe, and then banned. Now Blahaj defenders want this to not be discussed under any circumstances.

Who here wants the right to go around insulting everyone without consequences?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Now Blahaj defenders want this to not be discussed under any circumstances.

I don't think they're saying you can't discuss it, or they're going to ban or defederate you for trying to talk about it, or anything like that. They're just saying that, now that the issue has been discussed a bunch of times in this community with nothing getting accomplished other than a big productive-conclusion-free food fight, they'd like to (or they are proposing to) prohibit future repetitions of the exact same food fight. I think this is one of the rare times when "you can still talk about it, you just can't do it here anymore" has a good amount of validity.

And like I say, I think the users are much more the issue here than the moderation. I think "how do we manage to get along on the fediverse" may be a better way to approach it than "don't you agree that the mods of blahaj are terrible."

Who here wants the right to go around insulting everyone without consequences?

That's sort of what I'm saying. A lot of people on lemmy do want to have that right, and it's not super-important (apparently) within the consensus culture to say they're not allowed to. The boundaries of what's acceptable behavior are often in very weird places, to me.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I don’t think they’re saying you can’t discuss it, or they’re going to ban or defederate you for trying to talk about it, or anything like that.

Proposal from OP, one of the mods (who, in fairness to them, is very hard put on by all this pointless fucking drama that they get to get hit with without even being involved)

that we no longer accept posts about this topic in this community; and

we also remove previous posts on this topic from the community.

One of the most upvoted replies:

I agree, this community should be a place to discuss mod abuse, not bellyache over transphobia and hate speech being censored or being banned from it. Such discourse makes this community extremely toxic and unusable to vulnerable groups, it also creates inherent bias here favoring alt-right shitheads.

They’re just saying that, now that the issue has been discussed a bunch of times in this community with nothing getting accomplished other than a big productive-conclusion-free food fight, they’d like to (or they are proposing to) prohibit future repetitions of the exact same food fight.

The reason why it is production-free is because Blahaj defenders swarm the comm every time it happens. If the position is "Users are sabotaging discussions they don't want to happen, so we should just not have those discussions", then all you've done is reward toxic behavior.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

(who, in fairness to them, is very hard put on by all this pointless fucking drama that they get to get hit with without even being involved)

Yeah that's part of my POV lol.

we also remove previous posts on this topic from the community.

Yeah, deleting past posts is silly I think. I don't agree with that part.

I agree, this community should be a place to discuss mod abuse, not bellyache over transphobia and hate speech being censored or being banned from it. Such discourse makes this community extremely toxic and unusable to vulnerable groups, it also creates inherent bias here favoring alt-right shitheads.

Yeah, that's a bunch of bullshit. The only reason I didn't get in an argument with that person is (1) life is short (2) like I was saying, there are clearly a bunch of good-faith people who are sort of twisted up with certain words and definitions, such that they'll interpret anyone trying to disagree with that person as transphobia. That's the whole point of them being so forceful about defining anyone disagreeing with them in a very particular way. It lays the groundwork for anyone who's an "ally" to misinterpret any disagreement.

I think the solution to that has to come in some other form than just having a big sprawling slapfight with them. The chance of them seeing reason about it seems near 0, and I think the sum total impact of the slapfight on other people who are observing it will just be to drive them a little further into their echo-chamber.

The reason why it is production-free is because Blahaj defenders swarm the comm every time it happens. If the position is “Users are sabotaging discussions they don’t want to happen, so we should just not have those discussions”, then all you’ve done is reward toxic behavior.

Correct. I'm not saying it's not a problem. I'm saying that having big frequent slapfights about it will not solve the problem (and yes, partly specifically because at this point there's a whole crew of users who've I guess been amped-up and trained to come in and vigorously inflame the slapfight any time one happens.) The best I can come up with is:

Having a more serious conversation about what type of culture we want to establish here, without coming out of the gate and announcing, effectively, that anyone who's a supporter of one particular instance is "bad."
Changing the tradition of moderation so that there's not an expectation of someone standing over the comments needing to delete anything that is "bad" before someone sees it, and has a total meltdown and can't get out of bed for the rest of the day.

Neither of those are simple things to do. I'm just saying that that type of conversation seems more likely to lead to a good solution to the badness that you're seeing, than is just vocally hassling the blahaj admins and users every time this same issue comes up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Blahaj defenders swarm the comm every time it happens

Banned users like yourself also flood the thread every time. I don't see how that's any different.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Banned users like yourself also flood the thread every time. I don’t see how that’s any different.

What, all three of us? Clearly we're mass downvoting Blahaj defenders and mass-upvoting our Banned Comrades(tm). Hell, I was only added to that banned list the other day.