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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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Looks like @PugJesus@lemmy.world has been going on a rampage against people who are critical of Israel lately, PTB for sure.
@goat@sh.itjust.works Might want to kick this mod out of your community since he's poisoning it for others and kicking out people he shouldn't be.
Yeah it's not a good look that Tankie now means "I don't like genocide". Just further dissolves the word's meaning and enables .ml and hexbear to do more things.
It's what it's meant on lemmy, particularly .world, for a while now. centrists just use it like (other) republicans use "woke."
It means "this person has an opinion I know I'm morally wrong about. I don't want to change my position but I also don't want to look bad, so I'll pick a term I can't define and use it as a cudgel against them."
I've been called a Tankie for wanting the Democrats to support trans rights to win against Trump.
Means nothing in 2025.
I'll investigate later, thanks for the ping. I've since unbanned some of the users, such as @hark@lemmy.world, the others I'm still investigating and some are also spam
I'm fine with people sharing different views, even if they're controversial. Tankies are also allowed to comment in the community, as long as everyone follows the rules and is mutually respectful towards each other, feel free to engage.
Wasn't gonna bother until after I saw this, but looks like PJ gave me a ban for clarifying UN reporting on sexual assault.
Didn't think I was posting anything spicy but you never know the crowd.
That sounds like .word mods, banning people for proving them wrong.
Yea, seems likely
That bucket guy said 'rape of Jews on October 7th was widespread', and the 'widespread' part fucking got to me.
Not that it's a huge difference but I couldn't stand that guy running around citing that UN report that said it found 'reasonable grounds to believe sexual violence occurred', which is a fucking far cry from 'rape was widespread'
But, if I were to be charitable, i could see a mod coming in cold to that conversation just assuming the worst. But im pretty sure it was pug, if the 'sort by mod' function is accurate.
It most likely is, check this community. He's banned people for calling him out on unrelated communities .
Pug is mentally unwell and lashes out at people wanting something better in the world.
I've had some heated exchanges with pug in the past but this is the first time I can say for sure he's moderated me, and for something extraordinarily tame.
The genociders have produced zero evidence for any rape.
Except their own OC
If only that actually mattered.
The banhammer is a disagree button.
By the way if Lemmy-UI doesn't let you remove the mod, use photon or Tesseract to do it.
Lately?
This is the second post in a row here about his actions.
Idk, if he didn't kick our pj before why would goat do it now.
Pug and I had a falling out, and he stepped down but retained his moderator role. If you check the modlog you can see he hasn't acted in quite a while until just recently
Why not remove him if he's causing more issues for you?
I'll consider it
Having an unhinged narcissist as a mod is not ideal for any community.
Honestly my bet is PJ is kept on the team despite all of this.
He's been removed
Awesome! Glad to hear I was wrong then.