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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.
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.
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- 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.
- 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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I disagree with how a lot of that thread was moderated, and I do think that a permaban was a heavy-handed. Not that you weren't necessarily entirely without fault.
I'd say it's a combo of BPR and PTB
This is a copyleft, pro genAI instance. We don't even agree that copyright or intellectual property is moral, let alone the argument tat keeps popping up that it's "stealing". Once you release an idea to the world, it becomes part of the human condition. It doesn't belong to you, and saying you "own" something that's a part of another person's consciousness is akin to saying slavery is acceptable.
There are plenty of safe spaces for that neoliberal capitalist bullshit, but on an anarchist instance is not it. They deserved it, and I think it should be made into an instance-wide rule that anti-AI conversation be banned for being in direct contradictions to our morals and political philosophy, with repeat violators being banned.
I agreed until you got to the point that anti-AI conversation should be banned. And because I agreed up to that point, I think I joined the wrong instance. I could go along with y'all being pro-AI because im not inherently against it, just cautious as a person, knowing people abuse any kind of power far too often. And, I dont have to use AI in my life while still having anarchist beliefs. It's a choice, so long as you hold no power and do no damage to others with your tools . . Banning conversation is holding power and using it against others, which is inherently not anarchy.
I guess the Anarchism I grew up with has changed. Bummer to hear.
Edit to add, I'm really tired of labels, I'm tired of having to put myself in a box for social media to digest.
Edit: I guess we're going to be voting on allowing people to bitch about generative AI soon. I'm pretty torn on it, because I am so tired of people bitching ceaselessly on this topic, but also... Censorship is lame.
This isn't censorship. They'll still be allowed to post anti-AI slop literally anywhere else besides the ONE PRO-AI INSTANCE IN THE FEDIVERSE.
Not even that, just certain communities here which allow AI. They could make an anti-AI community here if it follows all of dbzer0's rules, is good faith and doesn't encourage trolling or aggression towards others.