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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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- 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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It's quite simple.
Each person is an individual, with their own sets of values.
Piefed is only one, if those rules federate (I'm not sure about this) in all piefed there only "one" community.
If you are inline with that community you'll be very happy with the "community" moderation.
If you are not inline you will not be happy.
Only happy people who is inline with community moderation will stay, because, why stay in a place that you don't read people you like and other people cannot read you. So then there's the echo chamber.
If for you the echo chamber is a feature, as it seems, then just admit it. I think we are down to the fact that "echo-chamber" is a name with bad connotations, and thus the pushback. We can give it another name "hideous-free chamber".
But at the end is a space where you are only going to communicate with people that agree with you. If you like that space then go to that space, it seems that you think that's positive "not having to be blocking all the time and letting the system block for you". If you are inline with that system then, as I said, you'll be happy there.
But don't sell it as what it's not. It's not a place where diverse opinions could exist, by definition. Only the majoritarian opinion could exist there, by design.
I get an issue, because it seems like you are saying that in piefed each person can moderate then there's "more different moderators", or something like that. But it's not, as all moderation, votes, are pack together and there's only ONE moderation, the moderation of the majority.
At the end, time will tell. Piefed do exist, and it's rolling. It's just a matter of giving it time and seeing if the place is more diverse than lemmy or not. Lemmy it's quite diverse, it's a hard objective, most people here don't even agree with Lemmy devs, and there are distinct groups in distinct instances with very diverse values (in fact I get the feeling that piefed was mostly created to separate themselves from one of those groups), let's see of in a couple of years there's such diversity in piefed. I don't know how it's going to be possible, as people who would have diverse opinions would be affected by the automatic moderation feature and will promptly leave the space, but let's see.
I presumed too much, my apologies. I thought you were talking about the "echo chamber effect", which is a topic of much contention among people who discourse about social media platforms. If you were simply saying that people like what they like and do not like what they do not like, then yes, that much is true - although in that case I am not sure why it needed to be said? - although even there, PieFed allows for more options to moderate such than Lemmy does, while remaining the same in other ways. But I am not trying to push you into anything that you do not want to know about.