this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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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.
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- 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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Yup, PTB. Any time you're banned from an unrelated sub, there has to be a damn good reason for it, or it's power tripping. There are acceptable reasons to do preemptive bans, but simply not sharing the same ideology isn't one of them.
Unless you were talking about whatever it was in multiple places, in contravention of community rules, there's no reason to assume you would do so in that community as well. It's wasted effort, which means it's about whatever is in their head, not your actions.
However, that's all based on what's visible here. Some folks think "calling out" means bitching at, or otherwise hassling someone that's only expressing their views. So, if you think calling out requires being a dick to someone (it really doesn't. You can even be assertive without being a dick), this would be more of a "both people are jerks" type of situation. And that's coming from someone that's too damn old to have the patience to stay assertive without just calling someone a jackass, so I'd likely deserve a preemptive ban here and there.
Seriously folks, what you think of as calling out can still be a bad thing, even if the person you're calling out is fully in the wrong. You can go too hard, too far, and be just as wrong. I've done it many a time. When it comes down to moderation, think of it like being at someone's backyard bbq. If you tell a fellow guest they're behaving poorly, that's one thing. If you start railing at them and fucking up the vibe, don't be surprised if you're out of the party as well as, or even instead of, the other asshole.
To expand that, if you're at a backyard BBQ, being a loud douche, the guy next door might make sure you aren't ever invited to his place, even though you didn't do it in his yard. So even someone that isn't a mod of the place you're "calling out" someone could decide to just not want to deal with it. Can't say I'd do it like that, but it isn't the same as a power trip.
Tbh though, pretty much anyone that's ever run into godlesscommie knows they're hyper aggressive in their zealotry. It's a thing. The chances of anyone having actually done anything worthy of a ban in one of their communities is absurdly low.
The crucial factor to me seems to be whether the rule being violated is ever written down anywhere - if someone flagrantly violates what they were told in advance not to do then a ban is ofc deserved, while if a new person was never told what the unwritten rule was, that's PTB?
The link to the thread is here if you like. It's also the post.
https://lemmy.world/comment/14491890