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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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Who said Lemmy is an anarchist place without rules?
anarchists do have rules, they just don't have hierarchies. the idea that anarchism is a free-for-all, do whatever you want ideology is capitalist propaganda. in a society built on the liberation of all people, you obviously need rules to protect the people from threats that would subjugate or harm them. in real world anarchist collectives, those rules are usually collectively arranged by the people, and in cases where people break those rules, they are adjudicated by groups of people elected or randomly chosen to work out who is in the wrong, and what punishment is suitable for them. yes, anarchists do have what most liberals would call a system of law and order.
for a good example of how anarchism works in practice, read up on the Zapatista. while they don't refer to themselves as anarchist, their day-to-day praxis is pretty anarcho-communist.
there are many "anarchisms" and some actually refuse rules.
some are clearly antisocial and nihilistic. That doesn't make it less anarchist.
Sure, people like ancaps exist. And there's naturally no authority on what anarchism is. But you won't find many leftists, anarchists or otherwise, who will associate themselves with people like that.
You can scream to the heavens that you're an anarchist all you want, but you can't make people accept that or humor you by also calling you one.
that's a strange occupation, to care about people calling you anarchist or not.
i know that nowadays people are more interested in what they're called, appropriated identities, labels and what not, but you really think that those unfrequentables will care about what you call them?
I don't recall saying I thought they would. You're the one who brought it up, so if you have questions about your own position, perhaps you should address them to a mirror.
mirror mirror on the wall,
who will have the last word on this stupid brawl?
Who said anarchists don’t have rules?
Anarchists don’t have rulers
even anarchists have rules lol
Rules for thee not for me apparently. I was just banned from News because I was pointing out a user spreading misinformation. The mods are fine with the misinformation.
Nobody even said that those rules are more adequate :)
But still, most Lemmy communities have much fewer rules, so overall it is more comfortable here moderation-wise.
Where is the rules?
Look at my mod log
Here they are, youre welcome. You can even expand and read them in detail: https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyshitpost
Still no answer?
I know this might sound crazy to you but some people have lives outside of the internet and dont answer every comment after an hour.
Which rule did I break exactly?
1 and 5
Willing to bet it was either the one where you posted a non-shitpost news article, or the one where you posted untagged NSFW, although it could also be neither since you seem to have comments and posts from there that don't appear in the log, so it could've been rule 1. I wouldn't put it past you since the way you've been behaving in the thread and the fact this isn't your rodeo here indicates you've caused a lot of trouble there.
@Decoy321@lemmy.world Here's a tip for future trouble makers on Lemmy, you shouldn't ban with content removal since it excludes content from the modlog and therefore removes context which show why people were banned.