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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.
Rules
- 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.
YPTB 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.
- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
- 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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For the record, I'm not transphobic, I'm not cisgender for sure... My kids is trans...
"Gee I wonder why Lemmy isn't more popular!"
Also, I have never interacted with most of those communities
This was a problem with Reddit that Lemmy never attempted to solve: you piss one person off (maybe not even through any fault of your own) and rather than just block you, they ban you from every community they moderate.
However, Reddit didn't really have a solution to that. Lemmy kind of does: you can make any community you want, and communities that pull crap like this might be avoided by users who don't tolerate that kind of thing. Or they might not, but the users have more power here.
One thing Reddit was good for was, one mod would make communities like, say, "iPhone 16," "iPhone 17," "iPhone 18," and so on up to like 50, and then lock them until that phone was announced. Same with game series, movie franchises etc. Then when people opened rival communities, they would brigade them, harass them, post things there with dummy accounts that would violate Reddit rules and get the community banned, stuff like that.
Lemmy isn't going to fix all of Reddit's problems because Lemmy is trying to be an alternative to Reddit, which means the more people Reddit pisses off, the more of them are going to end up here and most of them are going to do the same shit here that they did there. And until people show them that that behaviour will not be tolerated... they're just gonna keep doing it.
Lemmy communities need a "total blocked" counter so I can use the information to choose.
I sometimes block obnoxious people, but I only block myself from seeing them, right? Their newer comments will still be visible for anyone else. I guess the fediverse cannot handle real blocking of people, right ?
I mean I can understand (not in OPs case) sometimes you want to ban a person, not just block them (again, not in OPs situation, that's just a childish mod).
Correct.
You can also, before you block them as a user, look and see what they mod, if anything.
Block all those comms, then, block the user.
If everyone were to adopt a paradigm like this, active engagement with the... way that lemmy works, to express displeasure with certain people or comms...
You end up with a kind of dynamic equilibrium... people who are disliked, disagreed with... their comms just stagnate.
But, the whole trick is convincing people that... their engagement with lemmy as a system, as a collection of basically message boards run by people... well, it requires active engagement, if you don't want it to redditify, ossify into cliques of ludicrous powermods.
Lemmy doesn’t, PieFed does.
If you block someone on PieFed their replies to your comment won’t federate out of the instance they posted it on.
Do you have any contact with quokk.au admin? There's a serious problem with the troll using quokk.au as the instance in which to spam from.
Sorted.
Are you a mod there? Are you Quokk.. or?
IRL friends. I rang them.
Neat!
How does that interaction with moderation I wonder, like, if you moderate a place, you presumably need to be able to see what is going on in it, to see if something breaching whatever conduct standards you have has been posted. If you have a bunch of users that you can't see, doesn't that undermine your ability to do that?
That's a very good question. It might explain why modos ban people instead of blocking them actually.
You say that, but I'm banned from !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world because of a mod's hissy fit, yet it remains the biggest community on Lemmy.
No, creating a new community is not the way to solve this sort of thing. Removing and banning the power tripping mod is the solution.
There is also a power tripping mod on !pics!pics@lemmy.world. See this post: https://slrpnk.net/post/34743977?scrollToComments=true
So there should be an authority above moderators that determines which moderators are fit to moderate? I don't see that being abused, ever.
You're probably right, though. We don't need gatekeepers keeping good people out. We need gatekeepers keeping things on topic and keeping bad people out. And by good and bad, I don't even mean morals, I mean, those who contribute and those who are a detriment. The problem is figuring out who's who. If I get a pretty nasty reply, I like to look at the user's post history. I know that's considered rude, but it can be enlightening. If the person generally helps someone, and then there's their comment to me, maybe another rude one, I think, I don't know this person's life, maybe they're going through something, maybe it's just a bad day. And I can forgive that. But if all they do is spew vitriol... that's an easy block.
But do I ever think everyone should be like me, or make decisions like I do? No, never. I recognise that too often, people who make bad decisions, or who decide poorly about things, do think everyone should think like them, and that is a fundamental problem even if you have better intentions. No, we should all be free to be ourselves, and to make mistakes. I don't know what kind of person should be a moderator. I tried it once, years ago. I was tested, and I do not think I did very well. My solution was "I'm not going to do this again."
The authority should be the people. A community is for the people, by the people. All a moderator needs to do is keep the community happy, by removing obvious spam. If a post is having engagement, even if it slightly breaks the rules, you let it be.
Again, a moderator is not a king. He is there to serve the will of the people. A community is made by the people/community, not by the moderator.
Agreed
I'm sure you know better than most people how crazy the trans activists can get. There's one example.
Some of them do overreact... And quite loudly..
It's honestly relatable considering how persecuted trans people are right now (it's now a crime to have anything not related to your assigned gender at birth, in the presence of a minor, in Ohio. So it's basically illegal for JD Vance to go to Ohio because of the eyeliner and mascara.)
But as relatable as it is, transphobia-phobia does quite a lot for furthering transphobia...
For context, I live in Scandinavia, where to my knowledge there's very minimal oppression against sexual minorities, including trans. So the activism seems a tad crazy to me whereas it might very well be sane in some contexts.
People kill trans people here... They recently removed protections of trans inmates against rape in prison... They trying to classify it as a mental illness... There's a loooot of crazy anti trans stuff going on.
Thanks for proving some sort of an opposite of what I was trying to imply there, I guess.
Yep... Lots of trans hate