this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024
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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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I don't think it's proven that jordanlund is the one that's saying inaccurate things. jeffw said the exact same thing about being removed from his position if he tried to take away the bot, back when he was soliciting improvements for the bot for !news@lemmy.world, and jeffw is one of the only big-name .world mods who seems to have his head on straight. In the end, there was some kind of behind-the-scenes discussion and the bot was removed. It might have been nothing more complex than one admin who really liked the idea of the bot, and that coming across to the moderators who are "under him" as if trying to remove the bot would make him angry and he would remove them with his admin powers, when that wasn't the case, and it just took a direct conversation to get things straightened out and resolve the issue.
There is clearly something weird going on at lemmy.world. I just wouldn't jump to conclusions about where the weirdness lies without more information.
I really hope they can clarify. The objective of this post is also to trigger that clarification, as it seems they didn't really address this lack of coherence when it was brought up in the linked thread.
I've also provided Rooki with code to vastly improve the bot's verdicts. This just happened, so it's too soon to say anything about how he's reacting to that, but if months go by and nothing happens with it, or the party line which was "nothing better than MBFC exists, and anyway no one's offering constructive suggestions" changes to something else, without any change to the bot, then that'll be a clue.