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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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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.
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- 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.
YPTB 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.
- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
- 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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Not a mod but a happy AZ user here. If something characterises our mods is their good faith and you are accusing them of "apologia for crimes that people hung at Nuremberg for". Maybe chill a bit.
Try sending the same link without all the creativity and you might see that it stays up because nobody is plotting to hide a news piece from The Fucking Guardian.
I don't know the other users, but I like AZ because most people can keep a cold head without the need to be micromanaged by a thousand rules. Don't be the reason we need a full blown ToS page, please.
If submitting news articles with titles that aren't copies of the source is against the rules then that should be written down and communicated.
I'm not the only person to do this, but my post is removed. why?
Again, not a mod, so I'm not in their heads and I can only guess. Editing a headline to clarify (missing country, typos, whatever) is different, in my opinion, to unnecessarily change it to add our personal spin (telling the reader how to feel about it, for example). That might be it. Might be not, I don't know.
If I'm not mistaken, the original headline was "Albanese calls for ‘peaceful, democratic transition’ of power in Venezuela after US capture of Nicolás Maduro". I think that the problem with "Our lords and masters line up behind the USA against a rules based order and the precedents established at Nuremburg" is not that it's not an exact copy of the source.
Why is it ok for mods to remove posts without reference to rules?
What is the point of rules if they don't bind mods?
Now I'm curious and I cannot see it in the modlog.
Did you send the link to !australia@aussie.zone ? Because there's a rule in there that says:
Edit. Ah, no, it was !australianpolitics@aussie.zone ... Maybe they just forgot to put that rule in there too?
Did you try and reach them?
yes I did, no response
Yes.. no response in the sub 1 hour timeframe since you messaged me.
I consider editorialised headlines to break global rule 0 of AZ, especially when being deliberately antagonistic in attempting to provoke a fight from those with differing opinions to you. ie don't be a dick. If you want to pick a fight, do it elsewhere.
In this case, I agree with the broad strokes of your opinion on the topic of the article you linked. Repost it with the original published title and it will stay. Add your own commentary to the post, not the headline.
can you amend the rules to clarify this stance please?
No. AZ isn't run by rules lawyers, no interest in posting every single possible action that contravenes "don't be a dick".
I am not trying to be antagonistic, why is submitting a news article with an edited headline being a "dick"?
this was not my intention, I don't want to trigger a fight, just plainly state how the actions relate to IL and the RBO to highlight the horror.
Re-read my previous comment, I won't be commenting further.
This seem distinctly power tripping, you wont explain your reasoning as to how the rules cover it. Meanwhile you project intentions onto me I do not have.
I am sorry to have annoyed you, but with the rules as they are I feel like you are behaving unreasonably. If you ammend them to cover submissions of news articles not copying their headlines (and whether there is a difference if the article is posted in the body or not) I will be entirely satisfied with the removal.
I know running coms can be stressful, but it can't be arbitrary.
Oh no. You were definitely given an answer, and an explanation. You just don't like them.
They owe you nothing at this point, you're a timewaster throwing a tantrum
Did you message them at 4am on a Monday morning AEST? Because it looks like you did.
Oh i've definitely seen stuff warned / removed over edited headlines before. Even seen posts restored after mistaken shots (hosting site had chnaged title but left original URL)
Dunno about the mods, but the AZ admins are 100% happy to continue to platform racists (ikt).
When alerted and given information, they'll maybe remove one or two offending posts but do absolutely nothing about the user despite a repeated history of it.
As far as I'm concerned the instance is run in very very bad faith.
Edit: Lodion I see you've downvoted this, do you perhaps want to comment on why you refuse to take meaningful action against racism towards Aboriginal peoples and allow said racist to continue to operate on your platform?
Untrue. Starting with a statement of "fact" like that immediately has me questioning if you are posting in good faith.
The information you've previously compiled was either moderated already, or deleted by author when I saw most of if. What remained were ambiguous, possibly offensive comments if interpreted in particular ways . Either way... I didn't see anything warranting further action than had already occurred. That and your actions at the time, harassing said user in every thread they posted in, had me take your input with a large grain of salt.
I don't think there is anything I can say to convince you how wrong you are on this one. We do the best with the information available to us, and we're only human.
As for your edit:
I'm not. I'm happy to ban users when it is warranted.
Can you point me towards any such content on AZ?
I've not seen any unaddressed reports for them that warrant action on my part. I'm not online 24x7 though, so often reports are addressed by other mods/admins before I see what was reported.
Looking over comments from this user, I see plenty to dislike. But I won't ban a user because I dislike them, their opinions or necessarily how they express them.