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.
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.
Some acronyms you might see.
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If dragonfucker doesn't want to be known as dragonfucker, then they need to make a new account. And if the name dragonfucker is offensive by itself then the user with that name needs to be banned.
https://lemmy.nz/u/dragonfucker
You can check dragonfucker is their literal username
I think the mod who removed the comment may not have realized Dragonfucker is the username and not a insult.
That's not even power tripping, that's pure stupidity
Not sure what to judge this one to be honest, but seems weird to remove a comment because someone uses another person's username
Is the mod is saying the offending user changed the comment to reflect the target's username or that the target changed their username to justify the offenders comment? If it's the former, there might be something we're not seeing.
Impossible to say. I have no idea who changed what to match what. Here's the context, you can see it doesn't help: https://lemm.ee/comment/16738479
There is nothing wrong with being a dragonfucker. Anyone who perceives that as an insult and not a badge of honor needs help. u.u
You just have remember, most of these guys created subs so they could be mods, not because they wanted a place where a community could coalesce and discuss ideas.
I'm on the Community Team for LW. A large part of my effort (in particular) has been to actively recruit mods who haven't asked for the position.
One reason is exactly what you just said. Those most inclined to rule are generally least suited. (Thanks, Douglas Adams.)
Another is that I've actively tried to avoid the Reddit supermod situation, where ten people share moderation of every important Reddit sub. You'll notice that we generally have a different set of moderators for each of our largest subs. (Admins don't count because they don't/can't really mod. Admins see reports for the whole instance.)
That, of course, has caused other issues. One is that our communities tend to be less consistent than subreddits. You can view this as a good or bad thing, but we're generally judged as an instance by the most egregious actions of the most egregious community. And we're all new to this and learning.
Admins/Community Team also are walking a fine line. It's natural when you're drafted/appointed as a mod to want to do your job. I've been regularly advising mods to take a lighter hand in moderation, but we're also trying to avoid watching over every decision they make. They have some leeway in what they do.
This isn't even that kind of community, it's the announcements community for the whole instance.
folks should leave lemmy.world
They trippin harder and harder each day
I've been struggling to find another instance that ticks all the boxes
-allows NSFW
-doesnt censor swear words
-allows downvotes
-isnt an embarrassing name (looking at you sh.it.just.works)
-defederated from hexbear and other troll instances
-doesnt cave to elitist interests (.world has now fucked this up)
-active enough to have a good sized feed of communities
-active enough to have a good sized feed of communities
Personally I don't think this one matters so long as it federates content elsewhere in a timely manner. Pay close attention to uptime stats on the Fediverse Explorer. Sort by Active Users for best results - and it looks like lemmy.ca is another good option, defederating from Hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml.
You can block instances yourself, you don't need to have your instance do that.
