this post was submitted on 09 Aug 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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Then removes the post itself for "misinfo".

Suffice to say I think @[email protected] was just salty that I posted something that was not praising Russia, idfk what they were thinking.

Link to OP: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/25545288

What do you think, is me telling a regular that they're not prescient, banworthy "chauvinism"? Power trippin' bastard or nah?

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

Should we use the acronyms here too? NTA, YTA, ESH, NAH?

If yes: N[ot] T[he] A[rsehole].

I wouldn't be surprised if the thought process of whoever banned you was like, "NATO bad. NATO fights Russia, so Russia good. Russia good, so Russia wins. If you say Russia might not win, you think Russia bad. "

Because it's how the cookie crumbles in .ml: always oversimplifying complex matters and conflating predictions (what you did) with prescriptions (what could be called "chauvinism").

The fact that it's a 30d ban is also relevant. Not just because your post is almost 30d old; but because, outside very specific situations, it's a sign of powertripping.

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

N[ot] T[he] A[rsehole]

I'd rather make our own acronyms to fit this community.

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

Got it.

I love the idea behind the community, by the way. I could see myself using it from all the sides - as a mod, as a user who had an issue with a mod, or as someone just chiming in.

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

I read this thread yesterday before it was deleted and the article in original post was looking like fake news. Even on .world where this post still exists, highly upvoted comments are disqualifying one of two sources of this artice (and second one is report in anonimous telegram channel). So i wasn't surprised when i discovered that this thread was deleted as "misinfo".

But i must admit that neither this post nor db0/yogsothoth discussion contained anything that could be labeled as chauvinistic. Therefore, it was shocking to see in modlog that the author of the post was banned for “chauvinism”.

And another moment that comes to mind is the hexbear/dbzer0 drama, when a meme posted in piracy community by hexbear user was deleted by dbzer0 admin for equally far-fetched and flimsy reason. It seems strange to call .ml admins "Power Trippin' Bastards" for doing exactly the same thing that your teammates do on your own instance.

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

It comes from a known media source. It might be bullshit like so many things are but a biased lemmy mod isn't always the best judge. Anyway the post isn't about the ban not the removal.

Also if your think our own mods are power tripping, feel free free to open a post here.