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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You can post about power trippin' in any social media, not just lemmy. Feel free to post about reddit or a forum etc.

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.

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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Can’t remember exactly where or about whom I reported but it was to the effect of “someone please kill [this person]” (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by spujb@lemmy.cafe to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Disclaimer: Fuck the rich and please consider reading 1 paragraph before you go to comments to explain how I am a bootlicker. Thank you ٩(•͈ ꇴ •͈)و ̑̑❀

For context, I generally report all calls to violence, no matter who the “victim” is, whether they are a public figure or an anonymous user. I didn’t even register that the person I was “defending” was rich—I’m just aware that calls to violence are against most instances’ terms of service (due to legal threats). Genuinely sorry seahorse! I wish you just had something in your instance sidebar or even spoke to me instead of jumping to ban and “lib” insults!

Unverifiable information you will have to take my word for (per community rules)

Apologized to seahorse and got:

My own personal curiosities only adjacently related

Correct me if I’m wrong, isn’t this a bit of an abuse of federation? This is the same admin that pulled the move with the doxxing of Nick Fuentes. By banning users for reporting content that may violate our local instance rules, seahorse is making our local instances harder to moderate for our admins. (Honestly I respect the commitment to the running a very open and uncensored instance, but until Lemmy has the option to only report to local admins versus local & federated authorities, this may not be the best strategy?)

Anyway, this is pretty interesting. I’m honestly not too pressed about this (mostly I will miss !theonion@midwest.social) and curious what yall think. :)

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[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

OP has demonstrated the position that calling for this punishment is morally wrong.

False. If you reread my post (or read it for the first time, perhaps) you will find three key statements:

I generally report all calls to violence, no matter who the “victim” is.
I didn’t even register that the person I was “defending” was rich.
I have no interest in protecting the rich—just keeping the instances I know and love up and running.

Depending on an instance’s local government situation, instance admins can be held liable by law for hosting certain content, and therefore many instances have rules against calls to violence. I don’t even agree it’s a morally good or optimal system, it’s just how it is.

Out of this understanding, along with reporting the much more common slurs, racism, sexism, etc. I occasionally also report calls to violence. This is not out of any political interest; I am just helping admins keep house.

Anyway, thank you for your suuuuuper good-faith reading of my post, and I trust you’ll do the same for this comment. /s

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You might want to look up the definition of corporal punishment, because you are absolutely opposing corporal punishment when you report a post that advocates violence as punishment.

Being opposed to corporal punishment by default is not a bad thing.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

goodness :( please read the post. admins. can get. in legal. trouble. for. calls. to. violence.

the report is just me giving them the heads up that the content exists, nothing more, not me trying to censor others, not some political statement, and certainly not a moral one.

admins are free to ignore my reports. in fact, i hope they do, and perhaps let me know when and where they are not necessary.

i have read your post. PLEASE read mine. 😭

[–] timestatic@feddit.org -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is you don't really care if there's call for violence and are indifferent to people being killed/attacked because of it. All you care about is protecting the instances and its admins legally?

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

sure. whatever. not the most accurate description of what im saying but a lot damn closer than other people have been.

i don’t characterize it as “protecting” im literally just hilighting a potential issue that can be ignored or addressed.
i am not indifferent to any violence and my relationship to violence does not play into my decision to report content.

i don’t understand why you and others think there is such a moral mesage behind clicking the report button. it’s two clicks and a text field to say “hey, found this, wanted to bring it to your attention but it’s not up to me in the end.”

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Personally when I report things its mostly because of my own moral responsibility to support the removal of certain harmful content. Ofc I also want to see lemmy communities thrive but thats just part of it.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting! Genuinely surprised to hear these differences from my perspective. :)

Obviously moral responsibility does play into it for me too to a degree, for example one of the big ones for me on Lemmy is its issue with sexism so I report A LOT of comments for that. But of course, that always is in reference to the community or instance rules that forbid misogyny and hate speech.

There aren’t any my instance doesn’t defederate, but if there were any communities that actively supported misogynistic speech? I would have no reason to want those communities/instances of Lemmy to succeed and I would rather work to get that instanced defederated or that community erased than bother with trying to fix the issue by reporting individual posts to inattentive mods.

Thanks for your insight.