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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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My comment was removed for "misinformation"

https://crazypeople.online/post/18266774

Apparently the mod likes using euphemisms for their extracting wealth from other productive members of society and really dislikes being reminded.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

Eh, that's all as may be, but none of that invalidates it being an acceptable mod action to only remove the comment.

Edit: also, lemmy is a hobby. I mean, c'mon, you run this branch of it, right? That's a hobby that supports the hobby of others scrolling and shooting the shit. Which, as an aside to that, I'm glad you do! I enjoy my hobby on your hobby sometimes :)

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

As far as hobbies go, punching left on the internet, is not exactly healthy behavior. I enjoy the creativity of the technical implementation, we are not the same. :P

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No worries, I only punch taint, and only with consent lol.

Legit, I have no clue how anyone can maintain anything like this as long as you have. I would burn the hell out in a year. I assume an unhealthy streak of masochism has to be involved, what with the teeny tiny glimpse of understanding I have if implementing a lemmy instance. I seriously thought at one point of trying to set one up as a learning experience and noped the hell out fast.

Shit, I wouldn't even mod a significantly active community at this point. Just don't have the energy for it. Kudos to you!

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

TMI. Wait until you learn I also run and develop the AI Horde and Fediseer. My profession is in IT infrastructure automation and this is my way of doing mutual aid, so I'm more or less uniquely positioned to do this, but I do admit that I'm a freak.