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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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- 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).
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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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- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
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- 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.
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Name those people. Your sources doesn't have any evidence of biases towards lebanon
Ground News for one, as previously noted:
https://ground.news/interest/iran-news-wire
"The Ground News media bias check for Iran News Wire is unknown. Scores are assigned by aggregating bias scores from Ad Fontes Media, Media Bias/Fact Check, and AllSides.
Is Iran News Wire credible or reliable? Our Factuality score answers both of those questions. When it comes to Iran News Wire, we’ve assigned a Unknown factuality rating. Ratings are assigned by aggregating scores from Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check."
What a stupid dogmatic person you are
No. He knows fully well what he's doing. Dogmatic, yes.
Yup, he's a well known troll. Kind of surprising dbzer0 hasn't booted him yet. I've seen people booted for less severe but still liberal apologia.
Making sure bullshit sources get removed when reported? Yup! Guilty!
It's not dogma when I show you to be wrong over and over and over again.
I gave you repeated chances to use better sources, you not only refused, you doubled down in PMs.
Good riddance, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!
It is dogma to take fact checkers at face values whrn we ask you to use your brain and your own judgment you can't do it. I showed you how the source are sympatic to traitors and terrorists and you simply ignored it
Because, again, you're trying to lie your way in to being allowed to use inherently invalid sources.
Think of it like this:
You find a REALLY juicy story and you REALLY want to post it... But the only source is The New York Post.
Are you going to post it anyway and then argue like a little bitch when it gets removed?
Or, OR would you rather go "Hmm... Seems too good to be true, lets see who else is covering this..." and submit that instead.
Particularly when a mod tells you "No, not that source, try again."
The story carries way more weight coming from a legitimate source than a fantasy source and if the goal is to get the story noticed and accepted, which should be what EVERYONE wants, you, me, and everyone else in the community.
You do not want the reaction of "Yeah, but it's a bullshit site."
You would rather force your agenda, have it get removed when it breaks the rules of the community, and then argue over simply finding a better source.
Because finding a better source doesn't fit your agenda. 😉
Jordan, your shadow shows to everyone but you. I'd hope having had a close call with ending, I'd focus on making peace with my schismed self, rather than power tripping on the internet, to keep from facing myself and my mortality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Eichmanns
Enforcing the rules when idiots want to break them unfettered is not power tripping, it's what mods are supposed to do.