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.
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.
Some acronyms you might see.
Relevant comms
Then removes the post itself for "misinfo".
Suffice to say I think that the mod was just salty that I posted something that was not praising Russia, idfk what they were thinking.
Link to OP: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/25545288
What do you think, is me telling a regular that they're not prescient, banworthy "chauvinism"? Power trippin' bastard or nah?
Should we use the acronyms here too? NTA, YTA, ESH, NAH?
If yes: N[ot] T[he] A[rsehole].
I wouldn't be surprised if the thought process of whoever banned you was like, "NATO bad. NATO fights Russia, so Russia good. Russia good, so Russia wins. If you say Russia might not win, you think Russia bad. "
Because it's how the cookie crumbles in .ml: always oversimplifying complex matters and conflating predictions (what you did) with prescriptions (what could be called "chauvinism").
The fact that it's a 30d ban is also relevant. Not just because your post is almost 30d old; but because, outside very specific situations, it's a sign of powertripping.
N[ot] T[he] A[rsehole]
I'd rather make our own acronyms to fit this community.
YDI - You Deserved It
PTA - Power-Tripping Asshole
BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction
I dig it
But maybe better as PTB - Power Trippin Bastard
Got it.
I love the idea behind the community, by the way. I could see myself using it from all the sides - as a mod, as a user who had an issue with a mod, or as someone just chiming in.
I read this thread yesterday before it was deleted and the article in original post was looking like fake news. Even on .world where this post still exists, highly upvoted comments are disqualifying one of two sources of this artice (and second one is report in anonimous telegram channel). So i wasn't surprised when i discovered that this thread was deleted as "misinfo".
But i must admit that neither this post nor db0/yogsothoth discussion contained anything that could be labeled as chauvinistic. Therefore, it was shocking to see in modlog that the author of the post was banned for “chauvinism”.
And another moment that comes to mind is the hexbear/dbzer0 drama, when a meme posted in piracy community by hexbear user was deleted by dbzer0 admin for equally far-fetched and flimsy reason. It seems strange to call .ml admins "Power Trippin' Bastards" for doing exactly the same thing that your teammates do on your own instance.
It comes from a known media source. It might be bullshit like so many things are but a biased lemmy mod isn't always the best judge. Anyway the post isn't about the ban not the removal.
Also if your think our own mods are power tripping, feel free free to open a post here.
You mean this one, that I removed as "Tankie adjacent post, masquerading as piracy related"? You could argue (and they did) that it's just a (shitty) anti corporate post. But I saw it as yet another troll on the West from the hexbear/.ml contingent. Ordinarily I would have given the poster the benefit of the doubt, and a more generous interpretation, but seeing it came from .ml amid a flurry of other trolling activity on our instance at the time from those two instances (mainly hexbear to be fair to .ml), I assumed it was posted in bad faith to characterize Westerners as privileged pro-corporate stooges. So, propaganda, basically. Of course, opinions will vary, but that was my take at the time.
And to add further context, I never banned the user who posted it. All I did was remove the post. It should have been no big deal. It was only a big deal because they decided to dogpile me like the scummy trolls they are. It seems to me that Hexbear seems to blow something massively out of proportion and call for admins to be banned at least once a week. It's become their MO really, and while it's sometimes entertaining to watch from the sidelines, let's call it what it is - bullying and harassment.
