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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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- Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
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- Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.
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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.
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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.
- 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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The users are taking issue with the admins falling for the troll and allowing the troll to make the space hostile. Their engagement is with the admin/mod response, not with the user.
If you genuinely believe dragons are real and they are able to type and have some understanding of the English language, go gather the data, get it peer reviewed and objectively verified, and go collect your Nobel Prize. Otherwise, if you occupy a space in which people must act as if dragons or Santa or Groot are real, that is an improv roleplay in which failure to say “Yes, and” is a bannable offense. Reality persists. Eppur si muove.
By using that adjective, you are implying there are creatures which do not exist. You’re defending the admin response by partaking in the same act which got the users banned.
Why are you hung up on the "dragons aren't real" thing? That was never a requirement. Some people will argue that being trans isn't real, being plural isn't real, being genderfluid isn't real, being bigender or another gender entirely isn't real. (Not that you are claiming this.) As such, the admins there simply decided that there won't be a line drawn. Let people do what they want. Heck, you could consider it "roleplaying" if you're more comfortable with that, or alternatively, simply don't engage. It's disrespectful and not to mention disruptive to make it an issue.
It was never a requirement that serious expressions of identity be real?
Yes. Them's the rules on Blåhaj Lemmy.
I mean, apparently so, but I was not operating under the assumption that "We don't believe in gender, this is all roleplay" was the base state of the instance, and many others seem surprised by it too.
Three feet to your right is "trans women are roleplaying women". You may not hold that view explicitly, but the rules around respecting identity in that instance exist for that reason. And that means accepting identities that are challenging, even if they are being used by shitty people.
They're exactly the opposite of what he just said.
It's not about the person being shitty, it's about the identity itself being absurd and contradictory to reality.
You missed the point of the comment you're replying to. To a lot of people, garden-variety binary trans people are "absurd and contradictory to reality". To even more people, nonbinary people are.
Blahaj lemmy's admins have decided that they will not draw a line, because they don't want to be the arbiters of what is valid. That does mean some extreme cases don't get decided the way you would, and that's fine! Just block those cases.
Whatever identity they have, I don't care. The internet's big enough for everyone. It's not my problem, not my life, live and let live.
You're so close to getting my point. It's like right there.
"Transphobes hate trans people because they don't think trans people are real; therefore, in order to not be transphobic, you must admit reality doesn't exist" isn't very compelling.
Most ordinary folk would opine that transphobia is bad precisely because trans folk do exist in reality and are valid.