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!Linuxsucks@lemmy.world mod silently bans people from their community for disagreeing, and tries to hide the comments from being seen in the modlog. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hello I'm not a person who is affected by this community moderator but I'm posting on behalf of people who are, since they don't seem to know of this community yet. I attempted to reach some via DM but I'm not sure they'll respond. So I'm making this post since I feel this needs to be addressed.

Recently I was made aware of a community that appeared randomly on Lemmy.world. It seems to be a troll community given the type of content, but the reason I'm posting about it here specifically is that this mod seems to be banning anyone who points this out or goes against his narrative. Furthermore he is only using the autoremove on ban function, not removing any content the users have posted, which I believe is deliberate in attempt to prevent the content from showing up under the modlog and revealing the hypocrisy.

Some samples of comments:

Comment from: @glimse@lemmy.world

Everything else you posted has been pretty cringe but what he fuck is up with this one, dude lol

comment from: @rain_worl@lemmy.world

free software is SLOWING DOWN tech advancement??????? WHAT???????

comment from: @rain_worl@lemmy.world

i genuinely do not understand your point

comment from: @the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world

First off, nice new community. I look forward to days of quality posts such as this./s

Second, how many Linux distros have this level of data collection, and what is their estimated market share?

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All of these were retrieved from the API, even though they aren't included in the modlogs, I could've included more but it's kind of a time consuming process to look for them and retrieve them. Viewing removed comments is easier on Lemmy than it is on Reddit but it still isn't easy.

What do you guys think, does this seem like power-tripping? Also does this person's content seem like blatant troll content?

CC: @glimse@lemmy.world @rain_worl@lemmy.world @the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world

People who's comments I mentioned, I CCed them so they know I did this on their behalf

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[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Recently blocked that community and person, once it became unavoidably clear it's not a gag. Just a trolling asshole extraordinaire, picking a fight with like half of Lemmy, and worst of all, doing a shite job of it.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago

He's currently sunk to using a slur in his memes. Probably thinking it makes him sound cleaver but it just makes him sound immature. Ah well, at least it'll probably contribute to their community or account getting booted faster. Trolling can be overlooked, but slurs are very often a no-no.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 20 points 17 hours ago

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 hours ago

Agreed !unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone is a far superior community in so many ways, best part of all though, they're not tolerant of slur usage. Which is more than I can say about the one I mentioned in the main post unfortunately.

[-] badbytes@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I guess it's fine it exists as a site. But, what a juvenile, immature thing.

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

Linuxsucks community? It got to be satirical!

Oh... It's not...

It could be a place to discuss interesting points, for after all, there are legitimate points to be made. But it's not...

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago

The ironic part is that by creating this community the mod is actually working against his own movement because he's resorted to trolling and power-tripping, instead of a community to discuss interesting points. Meaning less people will ultimately be willing to take him seriously.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

I unfortunately am starting to lose faith in Lemmy's desire to reduce toxicity. They just now finally banned Linkerbaan, but it took 11 months of extreme trolling in support of Trump for it to happen. Days before the election, they finally took action. The user is probably laughing his ass off, having already reached 99.9% of the users they were hoping to.

Their cherry on top is they got away with accusing people of supporting/loving genocide hundreds of times unscathed. Most of the time where I witnessed that behavior, the person they attacked hadn't even expressed any form of support for Israel.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

They just now finally banned Linkerbaan

Good fucking riddance.

[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 14 hours ago

If you hang out in politics communities they are gonna be toxic. I don't think that's a fair characterisation of lemmy in general though tbh. There are plenty of wholesome communities.

[-] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Glad to hear they're gone

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, only downside is at this point we won't know if what many had speculated would happen. After the election, a lot of us expected them to vanish.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Sure, we lost a prominent one. But we will always have plenty of MAGAs cosplaying as leftists just from federating with .ml.

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[-] barsquid@lemmy.world -2 points 9 hours ago

But it's not a good fit for those comments. If they want to have a little community to hate on Linux and ban everyone who doesn't what is the problem?

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 hours ago

So the main purpose of these posts is to make people aware of such communities for what they are, so they are aware and don't assume they are something else more redeeming due to a lack of any dissent about or against them. That's the purpose of !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com.

Though when it comes to troll communities like this one there are indeed some problems, the biggest one is that troll communities do often become breeding grounds for toxicity, bigotry, and even disinformation.

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

it's me!!!

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is an example of a community I don't subscribe to, because I'm not the target demographic.

I think a Linux sucks community should exist, it can exist, and if the moderator wants to remove anything about Linux not sucking that's fine too. The way this moderator is doing it, they should just turn on mod only posting.

I looked at the community sidebar, and one of the community rules is no promoting Linux, no defending Linux, so at least it's consistent

Lemmy needs a diverse set of voices.

Counterexample: if I go into fuck cars and talk about vehicles in any positive fashion, I'm going to get dog piled and probably banned

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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 23 hours ago

I'm glad this community is a thing. There is !fediverselore@lemmy.ca for lore, drama and debacles, which is interesting to see when there is conflict between multiple somewhat reasonable sides, but when it's just mods behaving silly it doesn't feel as right a place.

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this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024

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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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190 users here now

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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Provide the cause of the sanction (e.g. the text of the comment).
Provide the reason given by the mods for the sanction.
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.
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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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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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