this post was submitted on 12 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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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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OK peeps, I am seeing a lot of flamewars lately which go off-topic of this comm. I am also getting dozens of reports about people reporting each other for "rudeness" or "trolling". I don't want this comm to start becoming a drama haven, so I want to try and prevent people getting worked up like this.

What do you think about me starting to deploy strategic 1-day bans for people who I notice are getting into flamewars? If not, what else do you suggest to help people remain civil?

Don't just upvote/downvote. I won't take these into account, I want actual comments about this to better make a decision.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Didn't know about this community, just read the description to understand its title, and I immediately thought that it was going to be a trolling mess. So my first thinking is that you created a banquet for trolls, and now you're dealing with the consequences. Do you have the magic mental power to deal with this?
If yes, then I would make it very clear from the beginning in the rules that uncivil discussion will be moderated, that continuous incivility will lead to a 1-day ban and that attempts to bypass the temporary ban will lead to a permanent ban.
Get ready for motivated trolls spending days creating new accounts to harass your authority, or you, after they have been banned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We don't have a huge troll problem tbh. Mostly people taking things too personally and seriously

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

you know, if i wasnt such a philosophically minded bastard i might be inclined to take this personally. fortunately,

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Didn’t know about this community,

How did you find it, All feed?

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

Yeah, isn't that the usual way?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It is, just curious why today, this community has been active for a while, and got pretty popular a few months ago with the first vegan drama

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I guess this post went higher in my feed that the others at my checking time.