this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2025
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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)?
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Sorry, YDI.
It's a known rule, it's been explained, and there are other places to post if you don't like that rule.
If it was the only C/ for posting things like that, it might not matter much that the rule about substack exists, but there are many places for it.
Edit: also, it's just a removal, that's not even close to power tripping by itself; there would have to be other factors to approach that standard.
It is not a rule. Nowhere in the sidebar of the worldnews subreddit does it say that SubStack is not a valid source. Nor does it say anything about "blogs". It says
And this is most definitely a news article.
JordanLund is using his moderator powers to selectively decide what is and what is not "news" at his own whims.
You're falling afoul of a common fallacy: that every rule needs to have every possible iteration of its boundaries spelled out. This is not the case.
To the contrary, it's counterproductive. The more subclauses added to a rule, the more there are to remember, and the more people think that because something isn't listed that it's okay.
But, here's the thing.
The only mod action taken was to remove the post and tell you that substack isn't a valid source for that C/.
That's exactly what a mod is supposed to do. You are still free to post on that community, with sources that are allowed. That's the exact opposite of power tripping, it's measured, responsible moderation.
You don't have to agree that substack is a substandard and questionable source for news. You can freely post things from there on any of multiple lemmy communities. That C/ is not a gatekeeper for news on lemmy at all. Things being barred from there do not prevent them from being seen. So you can't claim that it's power tripping my that metric either.
But, I'm going to repeat and rephrase the opening of this comment.
It doesn't matter how well written, how well spelled out the rules are, someone is always going to disagree with them, think they don't apply to them, or just try to play rules lawyer with them to get around them. Trying to continually chase new rules, and rules expansions is a sucker's game, it can never succeed.
That being said, if Jordanlund or any other mod of that Conley community, or any community, wants to try and streamline their rules, I'm always glad to try and help jigger the wording of things. And, that rule probably does need clearer language just to reduce future complaints. It is a bit vague considering that "news articles" is not defined, and the colloquial usage of the term differs from a more formal one.
Worldnews ascribes authority to judge source validity to MBFC (which I disagree with, but let us put that aside).
Dropsite is rated highly credible on MBFC. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/drop-site-news-bias-and-credibility/
None of that matters for the purposes of this community.
The mod action taken was well within the purview of the community and its rules
It say to only post news articles. Blogs aren't news articles.
Hossam Shabat reporting about a genocide from Gaza is a "blog"? What lunacy is this argument?
These are not "opinion articles". Dropsite does some of the most hardcore factual journalism out there.
Calling Dropsite a "blog" means you do not understand what the word "news" even means.
But but but it's not from CNN or FOX or MSN or some other centralized editorialized platform that can force their own spin on it so therefore it isn't news!
(/S)
You were the one to bring up blogs, mate .... but sure, if you say so.
Jordanlund brought up "blogs" as a nonsense reason to ban dropsite.
It's literally what Jordanlund cited as the reason for removal.