The feddit.org admins are planning to make an official announcement on how they see the situation and there was an internal discussion about this where it was agreed to wait for that official announcement. This is the main reason these topics were closed.
Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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.
Relevant comms
The feddit.org admins are planning to make an official announcement on how they see the situation
I suggest that any "announcement" should be made here as their overeager mod managed to ban number of users defending Palestinians and therefore made any discussion over there not possible.
I am curious about the contents for the announcement.
German law requires us to supress any criticism of the genocide perpetrated by isralies BC we only killed the Jews during ww2
I am more curious about the framing and general tone.
Touché
Why would an instance hosted in Austria have a comm declare that they follow German law... for a Europe-centric subreddit? Either way, posting news about the genocide of Palestinians is hardly denying the existence of Israel.
You folks should see all the comments in the butt-hurt Ich Im echten Leben thread on the previous PTB post. The amount of excuses being made there for being called out as pro-genocide is Wahnsinn.
Naja. Deutsche sind ja Deutsche wieder. See you soon on the next ich_iel thread about this post.
When I look at their sidebar and unless there is some additional missing context on ban evasions or or the news sources of the topics against the rules (e.g. Al Jazeera on Israel) none of these things are against the rules.
The one I see that is in the same topic area is "we follow german law; do not question the statehood of Israel". I added my own emphasism.
My interpretation is you cannot advocate for the eradication or dismantling of the state. But then this is over moderation on any topic on Israel from any source to probably prevent any discussion and then no moderation of the comments are needed. I wonder if my being an anarchist is a ban-able offense!
This smacks of PTB.
Oddly, feddit.org is not located in Germany. It's hosted in Austria.
That's pretty blatant ptb
Can someone with a moral compass make another europe channel for people who actually respect human rights?
What the fuck is going on with [email protected] ???
I just checked and I appear banned there too although I am not sure if it is related to the same idiot(s) banning users for supporting Palestinians.
Thanks. That means fuck all, they can use it as pretty much anything.
Seems like they've been banning people who don't cater to or go along with their Zionist apologia. They've also been locking and removing many such posts in support of Palestine, or critical of Israel.
I got banned there for calling out german regime being Nazi nepo babies.
Too much censorship.. Just block it.
The originazi supporting neonazis.
Apologies, off topic, I love your username
You clearly don’t understand. Opposing the genocide means you support the Palestinians committing their own genocide on the Zionists!
Instead of, ya know, giving the Palestinians dignity and emancipation, hoping for a future where they can live side by side or at least in their own sovereign states.
Did they even pretend that there was a reason?
No, and I updated the main post with more examples
This does not look good.
This just reinforces my previous assertion that the mods of [email protected], or at the very least some of them have a serious Zionism problem. Actually considering the amount of Zionist apologists in the other thread I would wager that Feddit.org has a serious Zionist problem.
I mean just read rule 4 of that comm. It says "don't question the statehood of Israel" in the rule banning hate speech, ostensibly to comply with German law. Germany has no such law (yet). They're at the very least running defense for Zionists. I got warned by the mods to delete or edit parts of my side of an argument where I argued for a one-state solution over there the other day.