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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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  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

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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.

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Can’t remember exactly where or about whom I reported but it was to the effect of “someone please kill [this person]” (lemmy.cafe)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by spujb@lemmy.cafe to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Disclaimer: Fuck the rich and please consider reading 1 paragraph before you go to comments to explain how I am a bootlicker. Thank you ٩(•͈ ꇴ •͈)و ̑̑❀

For context, I generally report all calls to violence, no matter who the “victim” is, whether they are a public figure or an anonymous user. I didn’t even register that the person I was “defending” was rich—I’m just aware that calls to violence are against most instances’ terms of service (due to legal threats). Genuinely sorry seahorse! I wish you just had something in your instance sidebar or even spoke to me instead of jumping to ban and “lib” insults!

Unverifiable information you will have to take my word for (per community rules)
Apologized to seahorse and got:

My own personal curiosities only adjacently relatedCorrect me if I’m wrong, isn’t this a bit of an abuse of federation? This is the same admin that pulled the move with the doxxing of Nick Fuentes. By banning users for reporting content that may violate our local instance rules, seahorse is making our local instances harder to moderate for our admins. (Honestly I respect the commitment to the running a very open and uncensored instance, but until Lemmy has the option to only report to local admins versus local & federated authorities, this may not be the best strategy?)

Anyway, this is pretty interesting. I’m honestly not too pressed about this (mostly I will miss !theonion@midwest.social) and curious what yall think. :)

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

!theonion@sh.itjust.works

Probably worth boycotting the main onion community and using this secondary one.

the secondary one was made in the past in response to shitty moderation on midwest.social affecting their onion community, so this isn’t a one time thing, it’s a patterm.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

'Libbity lib lib'

How utterly bizarre

PTB

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i remember when the word liberal was a tool to define policy, now it’s just a toy word to throw around when upset these days 👵

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure it was, grandma, let's get you back to bed

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 month ago

angry old lady grumbling noises

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

PTB

I've verified the modlog. @seahorse@midwest.social actually banned someone with the rational that they were reporting calls to violence.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

An admin. How unfortunate. Looks like I'll be leaving Lordofthememes on Midwest.social

[–] kabi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

PugJesus "defederating" from you is a larger loss than most complete instances would be

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I was only an occasional poster on Lordofthememes, so it won't be a major loss for them XD

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

It really feels like the mod tools of lemmy need to be a bit more fine grained. A button to ignore all further reports from a person would have gone a long way here.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Usually if numerous frivolous reports were getting on someone's nerves they would warn you first. I'm guessing there was a big backlog to clear around certain comments. Thanks for making reports, even if I wouldn't completely agree with the threshold you use, personally.

"Libbity lib lib..." is a non-reason for a community ban, the admin in question would be better off being honest and just ban you from the instance with the reason "i'm tired of getting your stupid reports", and be done with it.

It's fine for an admin to run things the way they want, but handling it in this unclear way reflects poorly on them, and the silly reason just shows how much someone can be stuck up their own ass.

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The "honest reason" is that the moderator in question disagrees with OP.

The moderator believes that the wealthy should be punished corporally for the catastrophic harm they have inflicted upon humanity for generations through their parasitism and believes that it is morally right to champion such punishment.

OP has demonstrated the position that calling for this punishment is morally wrong.

This was an impasse.

The moderator decided that opinions such as OP's are not welcome there, and therefore chose to remove OP.

We're not going to find detached impassive professionalism or even-handedness here, no matter how hard we dig for it. It's just politically motivated suppression of opposed opinions through and through.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

OP has demonstrated the position that calling for this punishment is morally wrong.

False. If you reread my post (or read it for the first time, perhaps) you will find three key statements:

  • I generally report all calls to violence, no matter who the “victim” is.
  • I didn’t even register that the person I was “defending” was rich.
  • I have no interest in protecting the rich—just keeping the instances I know and love up and running.

Depending on an instance’s local government situation, instance admins can be held liable by law for hosting certain content, and therefore many instances have rules against calls to violence. I don’t even agree it’s a morally good or optimal system, it’s just how it is.

Out of this understanding, along with reporting the much more common slurs, racism, sexism, etc. I occasionally also report calls to violence. This is not out of any political interest; I am just helping admins keep house.

Anyway, thank you for your suuuuuper good-faith reading of my post, and I trust you’ll do the same for this comment. /s

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You might want to look up the definition of corporal punishment, because you are absolutely opposing corporal punishment when you report a post that advocates violence as punishment.

Being opposed to corporal punishment by default is not a bad thing.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

goodness :( please read the post. admins. can get. in legal. trouble. for. calls. to. violence.

the report is just me giving them the heads up that the content exists, nothing more, not me trying to censor others, not some political statement, and certainly not a moral one.

admins are free to ignore my reports. in fact, i hope they do, and perhaps let me know when and where they are not necessary.

i have read your post. PLEASE read mine. 😭

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is you don't really care if there's call for violence and are indifferent to people being killed/attacked because of it. All you care about is protecting the instances and its admins legally?

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 month ago

sure. whatever. not the most accurate description of what im saying but a lot damn closer than other people have been.

  • i don’t characterize it as “protecting” im literally just hilighting a potential issue that can be ignored or addressed.
  • i am not indifferent to any violence and my relationship to violence does not play into my decision to report content.

i don’t understand why you and others think there is such a moral mesage behind clicking the report button. it’s two clicks and a text field to say “hey, found this, wanted to bring it to your attention but it’s not up to me in the end.”

[–] franklin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I understand what you're saying, but violence is necessary.

Peaceful protest is all but impossible and uneffective in the current political landscape.

I don't think we can take back our world through political means anymore. The rich have been waging a culture war and winning it. And if you don't believe me, just look at the fascist tilt in recent elections.

I'd love to be proven wrong but the longer I look at the situation, the more it seems like a return to the guillotine is the way to go.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks for your comment :) I also fully agree with what you are saying. Check out any number of my historical comments to see how much I fucking hate the rich. It was JFK who said “Those who make peaceful protest impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” I absolutely believe that the wealthy should face punishment for their violent crimes against the lower and middle classes for centuries.

But! You are just talking past my point here. I didn’t report out of a political motive at all, I reported because some admins might face legal trouble from their local government, the same as I report the much more common racism, sexism or harassment. See here for a longer summary: https://lemmy.cafe/comment/8831214

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Okay, that listed reason is so five-year-old-on-a-sugar-high that I ain't even mad. Like, it goes beyond power tripping into comedy via absurdity.

However, if you're running around playing playground monitor, I can't say I blame them. Report abuse is a thing, and depending on how far you're taking it, it could well be absurdist as well

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 month ago

Obviously I didn’t keep count but I can’t have made more than maybe 1-3 reports in the last day? Believe me I hear you though! That’s why I was so apologetic to him and reached out before posting here. I hate to he a nuisance and genuinely just try to help people out haha.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I'll be honest 'libbity lib lib' has now made me laugh multiple times while scrolling.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I still don't get your angle here...

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 month ago

yeah im slowly starting to understand how my framework of understanding differs from that of many here. here is a summary of part of it: https://lemmy.cafe/comment/8833662

if you have any specific questions feel free. i feel like i’m sort of bridging whatever conceptual disconnect is going on but doubt im all the way there yet.

[–] Sineljora@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You’re the worst kind of person

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Found seahorse's secret alt account!