this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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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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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.


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Please don't downvote posts in this comm because you think a ban was justified. That defeats the purpose of this comm.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

So, you're telling us how to use this?

Who died and made you God?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

Downvoted - I disagree...

[–] PugJesus 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself, I had to downvote this

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

Y'all make me gonna power trip all over youse arses!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If a ban is justified, then there is (pretty much by definition) no power tripping, right? So I feel like it definitely makes sense for this community to downvote if the ban is justified.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

no this just buries the post and doesn't transfer the info, that this is why the downvote was cast (and not, say because it's off-topic). We have text votes for this, check the sidebar

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah okay - I will say, the community name is a little misleading. The name makes it sound like it's for exposing power-tripping mods, but the sidebar suggests it is for asking whether a mod action is justified or not. Perhaps a different name would be more appropriate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

It's both. Ultimately it's to point power overreach, but these kinds of places have a habit to turn toxic, so I've structured it in a way which promotes constructive dialogue instead of ranting.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

[email protected], the irony. I'll use the downvote button to show that a ban was justified. The entire purpose of this comm is to show mods power-tripping and I shall downvote content that does not fit the theme of this comm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I can agree with this, people bellyaching about being censored for hate speech, trolling, or just being evil people isn't helpful, if anything it devalues the community since people will just see that and assume that it's just a complaining community, not a place to share legitimate and objective mod abuse. It's bad enough that Lemmy's culture has a very strong bias devaluing the judgement and opinion of individual users, it would honestly be preferable not to make that worse than it already is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I am a simple man. I can only embrace or reject. Nuance is not part of my vocabulary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago