this post was submitted on 18 Feb 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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https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/29191692

I don't even know what to think about this one. I'm not angry, more confused than anything. There's only one mod there so i asked them, and they said "It's against policy. It's the abbreviations policy."

I see no such policy anywhere, so who knows what's going on. Is it only the NYT that can't be abbreviated? What about the US? Is LOL forbidden too? And if so, why are we forbidden from laughing there!

They didn't even remove the comment.
The mod is user qrstuv. Maybe the only abbreviation allowed is when they say one? That's a power trip!

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 34 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I blocked the entire instance because of this. Why would i want to read posts i can't even take part in, you know.

Thank you for letting us know that person isn't the entire instance. I'll unblock it.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, it should be general knowledge at this point that instance admins and comm mods are not the same thing.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you for letting us know that person isn't the entire instance. I'll unblock it.

Glad to hear it. We've got some fantastic retrotech and FOSS rabbit holes for you to get stuck in, if that's your kind of thing.