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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:

  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

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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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[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Nuance? Huh? Naw, we should either rework words to fit our understandings of etymology or use any form of language we have access to to try and communicate in English… right?

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 1 points 40 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago) (1 children)

English is still a prescriptivist language.

Glad we don't enforce it in threadie… right?

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 32 minutes ago (1 children)

Oh, I don’t speak British Academic Scientific International and Commercial English, though I’m pretty sure I could understand it, maybe that’s the issue?

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 1 points 18 minutes ago

I think we are getting lost.
What do you mean by prescriptivism?
I am using threadiverse’s grammar-authoritarianism as Q.E.D. that threadiverse, and it's usage of BASIC is prescriptvist. While you and I vary our use of English dialects, & can communicate efficiently, threadiverse refuses to budge, as most are indoctrinated, and do not want to engage in other Yīngyǔ dialects.
tis why I propose sitelen pona earlier, because threadie hates nuance. (not us)