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.

Rules

Post only about bans or other sanctions from mod(s).
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.
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.

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.

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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!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 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I've suggested a rule in the past, but we don't have this rule now.

Community Manipulation

Communities should not be overly moderated in order to enforce a specific narrative. Respectful disagreement should be allowed in a smaller proportion to the established narrative.

i.e. A user should be able to (respectfully, infrequently) post/comment about a study showing marijuana is a gateway drug to !marijuana without moderation tools being used to censor that content.

There are times people wouldn't like it, but it'd fully solve this !linuxsucks issue.

[+] UniversalMonk@lemmy.world -15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Communities should not be overly moderated in order to enforce a specific narrative.

Agreed. That's exactly what is killing Reddit. They ban/permaban so many people just for disagreeing with them.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Can you imagine ml or hexbear adopting this rule though? I think it depends on the type of community. If it's a "safe space" type community then I think it's fine to keep out the dissenters. Eg I often remove right wing comments in lefty memes because it's supposed to be a space for memes, not people shouting at each other. Likewise, if someone starts ranting about the evils of piracy in c/piracy then they are getting a community ban. But a US politics community has to be tolerant of alternate viewpoints, because of the nature of the community. That's why it took a while to ban linkerbaan. He wasn't banned for his politics though, more because of the way he treated other users in such a hostile way all the time, even people who mostly agreed with him.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Can you imagine ml or hexbear adopting this rule though?

Wouldn't it be great? But yes, it's antithetical to those instances, which are fully intended as propaganda.

My hope is that the best ideas can handle a little dissent, while the ideas that fully rely on memes and echo chambers get deflated.

I've seen what happens when moderation enforces an echo chamber. It's so much easier to believe a narrative when it's the only one we hear. It's the entire premise of reading fiction. We're primed to believe the story goes as the author says, whether it's fiction or non-fiction. Timed correctly, it doesn't take a huge opposing narrative to trigger us to think about it more.