this post was submitted on 02 Feb 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.
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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OP said, "If I’m getting something wrong, please let me know, I’m here to discus and understand if I’m getting something wrong or if something went wrong in the moderation. Thanks!"
Yes they did. Their original conversation was arguably offtopic in the open source keyboard discussion. So, when it was deleted there, they started a new post, but unfortunately not realizing that FUTO was on the list of official enemies, and so people aren't allowed to have a conversation about it. To me, and OP, that's weird. We're allowed to say that, and be critical of the moderation policy, without it being an "attack." So, in keeping, they started a whole separate discussion about the moderation. But their whole point originally was to discuss this keyboard thing and maybe learn some things about it.
In my opinion, once you take control of someone else's environment, you're opening yourself up for your decisions to be criticized, whether or not the criticism is "fair" or whether or not you agree with it. That's how it works. Claiming that anyone who doesn't like how you're wielding your power, and talks about it, is "attacking" you and so you need to respond to the attack is... well, on brand for pro-authoritarian spaces, I guess. That's just not my culture.
TIL moderation is authoritarianism
"Pro-authoritarian" did not, at all, mean as regards moderation philosophy. There's some overlap philosophically I guess, but the amount of harm that a moderator I disagree with can do is pretty limited as compared with what I'm talking about there.
I think the productive part of this conversation is probably been and gone, by now. Just wanted to clear that up.