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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.
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.
YTPB 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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thats why lemmy needs to adopt a crowd sourced, prestige based moderation system and get rid of individual mods
Like each person could vote things up or down, and if they vote them up they get more attention and down votes would bury the content!
No, that is just regular upvoting and downvoting.
A prestige based system takes into account previous voting based on community outcomes, and aggregates over time a running value that represents how effective that particular user has been to matching the zeitgeist of the community. So the more someones posting and voting pattern appeals to the community that they occur in, the more 'valuable' that person's vote is
So a person that has been consistently uploading content that other viewers consider quality gets more community prominence and their votes are weighted more than a person who just showed up yesterday or someone who consistently posts divisive and unwanted content as decided by the community
Does this mean that some communities will get taken over by bad actors? Yes, but then you just leave the community, or start an initiative to change the zeitgeist of the community. The thing is, NOW those bad actors don't get a free pass just because one of their friends worms their way into modding BECAUSE there are NO mods.
Lastly voting just up and down is so 2010, as much as I fucking hate Buzzfeed their tagging system is the start of something good, but they don't do much useful with that info but aim for virality.
So a multi dimensional voting space based off of tag clouds where the user can refine the kind of content they view based off of others reactions such as 'funny, informative, shocking, wholesome' and even negative tags like 'outrageous, unhelpful, argumentative' just to name a few.
TL;DR: The longer and more often any given user's contributions are considered positive by a community, the more power that user has to shape the future of the community.
I can see how your modlog got so full. Are you always like this? How do you get but in the real world?
Yeah no, this would not work well. Minorities often experience being downvoted in great number and out-ratioed by those that have no understanding of what they go through (your regular lemmy user). It would just result in the ultimate echo chamber where largely only liberal white cishets have anything to say. At least as things are now queers can have a queer instance and feel safe there, even if things are not ideal.
Sorry no, it's clear no one here is capable of rational thought. Maybe consider researching what a prestige based moderating system is.
Tell us rather than insult us? There's nothing useful on the first page of results if I search for "prestige based moderating system" in duckduckgo.
Why shouldn't I insult you?
Literally every idea I've ever shared on lemmy that wasn't 100% mainstream accepted resulted in hours to days of harassment and comment stalking with zero mod support. None of you want to expand your understanding of anything, you just want your biases confirmed.
You can check my fucking post history if you think I'm lying.
You get what you give, and that's a lot of anger and vitriol. People would be a lot more willing to listen to you if you didn't constantly get upset and rage at everybody and pretend like you're above everyone else. If it smells like shit everwhere you go, check your shoe.
Oh so what you're saying is reddit isn't getting fascist, I'M the fascist.
Clever
or no, the opposite
No, I didn't say anything like that all. Why are you putting words in my mouth?
I literally fucking quoted your earlier post.
I'm so done with lemmy
I said nothing about Reddit, nor fascists, dummy. I was talking about you here on Lemmy, where you constantly fly off the handle and make a fool out of yourself while complaining about how everyone else is the problem.
My point being, perhaps it's not everyone else that's the problem, but instead you and your behaviour. You choose to be an angry, miserable person, and then lash out at everyone regardless of whether or not they were respectful towards you.
Brah, I was all for giving you the benefit of the doubt till you said this. Lighten up.
Nah, because any mod that didn't subscribe to groupthink would get banned by you all.
Crowd sourced moderation squashes small voices, squashes unpopular voices. It's not a good solution
So what you're saying is you don't understand what prestige based moderation is? Ok. And no I'm not wasting my time educating your intellectually dishonest ass
You do seem to be putting a lot of effort into telling people they don't know what you're talking about rather than telling people what you're talking about
And calling me a liar? I made it clear which part of your comment I was addressing.
I have spent years trying to be a contributor on the internet, adding my perspective and understanding.
And never once has it been worth it
Every time people like you descend to mock and jeer and deliberately misunderstand, and hardly ever do the mods do anything but work against me.
For a few weeks I thought lemmy would be different, but no you guys are actually worse and even more echo chambered.
I'm glad you're trying and I hope you get past your anger