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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.
Posting Guidelines
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.
Rules
- 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.
- Keep the comments in YPTB posts about the moderation action itself, not about the general topic in which the moderation took place.
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.
YPTB 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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Look, I don't like World, but they're clear about how they judge a source.
I made my news communities because I don't like their system, but for a com that big they need to draw a line when they can't individually verify everything.
I don't like their politics and I don't like where they draw those lines, but they're transparent in how they decide what stays.
Being an asshole to the mod, no matter who they are, doesn't help.
My communities are small but you're welcome to post to them as long as you follow the guidelines.
No they wasn't clear. Nothing in the rule mention using a specific fact check to determine what should be allowed or not . If you have no proof that the news is a lie you can't simply remove it
I admit I got carried away
Your guideline regarding credibility of the source is as vague as worldnews.
I clarify it in the asterisk but credibility is vague. I use fact-checking sources but don't rely on them fully because even fact-checks can have a bias. If you know of a better way to moderate a news community I'd genuinely like to hear it.
edit: World news links mediabias and an article on propaganda in their sidebar. It's easy to infer that's how they judge content.
Moderate based on individual articles. Do the specific article pushed a lie and defend the in defensive like genocide, colonization, war crimes etc
That is what I do because I have less than 2k subscribers across all my communities, but I need to say something in the sidebar related to how I verify an article and how to determine what's a lie, which is where fact-checks come in.
Defending colonization, war crimes and genocide are fuzzy lines to draw. Sometimes news is spun by omitting facts, so an article that seems harmless can be subliminally pro-isreal when given context.
The point is, it's very hard to verify sources on that level for as big a community as World.
Everybody knows a source like timesofisrael deny genocide yet it is allowed but an source like an arabiya is not. It is pure hypocrisy
I never said I agreed with their methods. According to the fact checking link in their sidebar your souce isn't trustworthy. Again, I don't support it, but I do understand why they use mediabias to check sources.
I fully support making more, smaller news communities to get a greater diversity of media on lemmy, and encourage you to either post to them or make your own.
He has. Apologia Free News.
Fantastic, then.