this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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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 honestly don't know what's going on there. The sole mod and contributor of the community keeps posting low quality shit purely to bash on Linux and people kept calling him out in the posts and getting banned from the comm for that.

Now I noticed the same mod has just locked comments on all posts to prevent having to ban anyone commenting on their memes

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

i won’t say it’s 100% certainly without doubt satire but those are the vibes.

It's not. I recall someone asking the mod what the point of the community was, and they explicitly said they're acting in earnest. They don't just want to satire Linux, there's an agenda and a mean spirit behind it.

Too bad they are terrible at making biting or satirical points, and they often come off looking uneducated. It's not really even ironically funny; it's just kinda sad.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

yeah because it’s impossible for them to lie lol

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Sure, but that would be a weird thing to lie about. Also, it wasn't just a three-word "yeah I'm serious," there was more context to it.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 2 points 4 hours ago

That's how trolls draw people in further so they can more deeply upset them, it's not a weird lie at all.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

the entire concept of the comm is weird tho. i can’t do vibes based judgement here personally. to me it is silly to take anything such a cartoonish character says seriously, including their statement of earnestness.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

"When somebody tells you who they are, believe them." The cost of me taking them seriously and being wrong is low, and it's not an outlandish or exceptional possibility that they're in earnest. The internet is choc full of weirdos with strange fixations, so I see no reason why I should assume they're joking.

If they're that bad at conveying satire, and they're not actually being serious, they should just quit now.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 hours ago

again, fair, my point is i don’t assume either way. i find the community entertaining but i think people should just block the community if it bugs them or report it if they have evidence it’s TOS violating. there’s no way anyone is going to verbally make this guy act right.