Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
Rimu
What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
Kicking from all Matrix PieFed rooms
Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
Rimu has been manufacturing non-stop drama for weeks. He ignores multiple offers from multiple parties to de-escalate, and now he bans someone for trying to promote non-discriminatory language. He has also now cut off a PieFed admin from any and all support and ability to contribute to the software.
Oh and the real kicker ? Rimu did all this after his big grand post about how he is stepping back from drama and hiding away from users.
You have a very rational way of seeing it, and I would have done the same thing. Only thing I'd say for the original asker is to be a bit more direct, they dance around it a bit, but that's a nitpik at most.
A story, I remember about 7 years ago I was asked to go through and rename every instance of "whitelist"/"blacklist" to "allowlist"/"denylist". I stand by that searching through the codebase and having me do that everywhere was a waste of time, it took me about a full week of time just to do that change with DB migrations and frontend updates and everything in just my chunk of code, I can't imagine how much time was spent company-wide. I found out it was actually pushed by the "People Department" as they called themselves then, and they did not care at all that it was in code only and not even visible to anyone. But I rolled my eyes and did it, it's just one of those things. I do purposely choose allowlist/denylist when writing new code because I understand it, but I also stand by it was asanine and meaningless to waste time and have me do all of them at once. A better mandate would have been "If you see whitelist/blacklist, you should now change it to allowlist/blocklist as you come across it, with teammates holding that bar in PRs. No modifications should be done without also updating the naming".
Yup! This is how I handled it, along with some other similar language changes in more industry specific language use cases. Only exceptions were user-facing dialogs. Surprise, surprise, everything that needed to be changed happened over the course of a few months anyway.
Yup, and probably a lot less engineering time too since those who came across each one knew the details of what they were working on, and what the implications of the change would be. Vs what I had to do which was learn about each one, make sure I wasn't destroying something, making sure no one else depended on, repeat times like 30.
Plus I didn't even have to justify the time involved either, since there was already a stakeholder for whatever changes needed to be made, it just went under the same hours as part of the required changes based on current standards.
Obviously community driven open source is a bit different (our code is open but still driven by business activity, so it didn't really come up otherwise except in rare scenarios), no need to justify hours or anything, so its even easier.
Wait you got paid for that? How the fuck is it a waste of time then? Most of that time was wasted in exchange for a fraction of the value you produced
Oh of course, the entire engineering team was halted and it was mandated from the top. Everything stopped. Stupidest thing I've ever seen, I've never seen an HR department - sorry the "People Department" wield so much power. Completely stupid. They took no input on how we should do it properly.