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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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  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
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Rimu published yet another hit piece against the /0 instance and this time posted it in his own instance comms as well. One of his mods jumped in, admitted they don't know anything about anything, but nevertheless felt confident enough to state their opinion as fact and in the process insult all of us collectively, then stickied his opinion for good measure.

So I decided to reply sarcastically, at which point that mod insulted me and locked the thread, which is apparently a feature in piefed which simply hides/deletes further replies in that thread, but since it's not a feature in lemmy, it appears to function like a shadow delete.

This is what my last reply would have been.

(Yes I'm being snarky, but that "I'm so mature" bullshit just rubs me the wrong way.)

In my opinion, using mod powers to get the last insult in, is just bastard behaviour.

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[–] XLE@piefed.social -2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

If you don't ban people for reasons generated by LLMs, why did you put the output of an LLM at the top of your reason for banning someone?

This makes question 3 even more pertinent.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Follow the discussions and you'll see unruffled explaining what happened

[–] XLE@piefed.social -1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

Flatworm7591's comments do not add clarity, which is why I'm asking you here.

Finally, just because I included an LLM summary of the comment history in the public modlog, it does not logically follow that the ban occurred because of the LLM summary. It simply happened to correspond very well to my own manual review

  • They claim they had a manual review process, but never show their work. (If they did, where is it?)
  • They imply they didn't use the LLM to ban the user, but they don't say it outright.

I prefer transparency and straightforward language. Not this.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Bring it up in the appropriate comms, it's out of scope for this thread

[–] XLE@piefed.social -1 points 11 hours ago

I don't see why it's inappropriate here, but I made a comment with the same text in the right community and mentioned your statements on it

https://piefed.social/comment/11221507

[–] XLE@piefed.social 0 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

@Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com comments?

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

You've already been told.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 hours ago

I replied elsewhere.