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.

Posting Guidelines

All posts should follow this basic structure:

Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Rules

Post only about bans or other sanctions that you have received from a mod or admin.
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.
If you are the accused PTB, while you are welcome to respond, please do so within the relevant post.

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.

YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.

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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Meta: For the sake of mutual aid with Blajah and my sanity, no more posts about Blajah's moderation policies please. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm gonna get real with you folks, we've had way too many of these posts recently. I've been reflecting on this topic a lot the past few days. For me personally, I couldn't care less about my gender identity. But just because that's true for me, doesn't make that true for everyone.

The beauty of the fediverse is that if you don't like the way a particular instance or community is moderated you can simply choose another to hang out on, or create your own.

Blajah has made it pretty clear by now they will ban anyone who argues against the validity of xenogenders, in order to create a safe space for those folks. That's fair enough imo.

Safe spaces should be respected, and Blajah's admins/mods do not deserve abuse for creating and maintaining those spaces.

I can completely understand why Blajah users don't want to have to constantly argue with external users about the validity of their chosen identities. Bans are one way Blajah has decided to manage that problem so that their users can experience lemmy in relative peace and safety. While it is a blunt tool and I have my reservations about preemptive bans, there are not many other options for @[email protected], other than defederation from most instances. That would be a terrible outcome for the fediverse as a whole.

In order to help Blajah to maintain their safe space, I would like to propose, if @[email protected] agrees and community sentiment is positive:

that we no longer accept posts about this topic in this community; and
we also remove previous posts on this topic from the community.

That's all folks, have at 'er.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I actually have a pretty high opinion of PugJesus otherwise…

I do too. He's not wrong here. I just think it's not productive to have extensive bitter arguments about it. I think it's a selected group of users starting all the drama (I have no idea if because they are trolls or if because they are drama-loving people who like being able to sling around "transphobia!" because it makes them feel like they're being good allies). Whatever it is, those people are having some level of success in restarting the drama here in these comments. I think continuing the drama in this fashion is playing precisely into their hands, so I support the proposal to ban talking about it here. But he's not wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Alternative perspective: the drama has been restarted because of PJ's post, and what seems to be an alt by a person aware of the !196 debacle created to stir that drama

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39114269/17051352

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

Well, but he made a specific post about a specific mod action that was, in fact, real messed up. That to me is legit even if I think there are better ways of addressing it in this case.

The drama I am talking about is an army of people coming in to screech that anyone who doesn't agree with them is horrible and bad and transphobic and fascist. I think PJ has a pretty valid point that acceding to that screeching, because it "will cause drama," is basically ceding control of the space to whoever feels like using the threat of screeching if they don't get their way.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 hours ago

hey props, this changed my view! i’ll go back and edit my comments. you are right. this should continue to be allowed here as far as the mods feel is possible to keep moderated. you’re right. it’s better for both spaces for all the screeching to be left here because it keeps it away from the trans space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Alternative perspective: the drama has been restarted because of PJ’s post,

What caused my post, I wonder? It must have been nothing. Maybe the wind.