Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
A mod from World [email protected].
What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
I had my comment removed and received a one-day ban.
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).
Original post: Pope is in ‘critical’ condition after suffering ‘asthmatic respiratory crisis,’ Vatican says
Like many of us on Lemmy, I think the Catholic church is responsible for a lot of evil in the world, including the way they were/are directly involved in blocking access to contraception leading to the needless death of millions of Africans due to the AIDs epidemic, the endless cases of child sex abuse, along with the ongoing coverups, and honestly too many awful things to mention in detail here.
So I left a comment that said:
The Catholic church at this point has all the moral authority of a child sex cult.
Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
Amend community rule 4 to remove the reference to religion. WTF is it doing there as a rule in a news community in the first place? Is LW being run as a theocracy now?
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist,
anti-religious,or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
The mod in question is also a religious weirdo (see below during a discussion about Luigi), so perhaps that is why they have the rule in place. But if that community not going to accept fair criticism of religion then it isn’t a serious news community imo.
I fully acknowledge it wasn’t a long ban and the rule was in place, so it was perhaps a BPR or YDI in that sense. But the rule shouldn’t be there in the first place. How on earth is it justified? And looking at the other votes and comments on that post, it’s clear that the the vast majority of folks hate the Catholics church as much as I do. So why is this mod running defence for the famously morally bankrupt Catholic church in a world news community?
I would amend this: I don’t think LW mods respond to anything in substantive ways. They will occasionally reverse themselves on a really objectively boneheaded decision, but most of the time it’s just a big hue and cry, and no particular resolution other than “You get what you get, and you don’t get upset.” Most of the things that people feel most strongly about, banning UniversalMonk being the most glaring example, they simply tell the community to get fucked. You are absolutely correct that they simply don’t like how the users want things to be, and don’t give a fuck that they are so far in the minority about it. As far as I can tell.
I think they are imitating from Reddit the paradigm that they have a monopoly on what’s going on, but Lemmy doesn’t work that way.
Lemmy.world definitely does have some fine communities and I am subscribed to many of them. Whatever is going on in the little clique of mods that runs !news, !politics, !world and friends, though, is just best avoided, rather than making any kind of attempt to fix it.
There you go. Every one of these is a far more pleasant experience than the LW subs. [email protected] is still tolerable to me, but the other ones are literally so overrun with hostile irrational people and bad moderation that I get for-real disoriented when I go into one of the comments sections and start to see what people are saying and how they interact with each other.
Edit: I wondered if I was being fair. I looked for a story from the front page of [email protected] at random, and picked this one: https://lemmy.world/post/25964593, “Trump envoy can’t name a single concession Russia will make in peace deal”
Second top-level comment, by the default sorting, as of the time of this writing:
Not only is that not what I want to read about the Ukraine negotiations, it’s not even an effective effort to mount propaganda. No one will read that and somehow think “You know what, that’s true, Trump kind of is doing better, at least he’s trying.” It literally has no purpose whatsoever other than to annoy and inflame. It’s just a little turd sitting there in the comments section, stinking up the place.
Is it the lemmy.world moderators’ fault that it is there? Certainly not. Are they putting monumental amounts of effort into making sure that various cockamamie goals and restrictions are put into place into what people can and can’t post in the comments section, while doing nothing at all about little turds like that which I will have to step in constantly if I decide to navigate the comments? Yes. Yes, they are.
im not like that at all
That’s just what a power tripping mod would say.
I cannot decide if you are a troll or a biting satire. Maybe the real trolling was the friends we made along the way.
you left me no choice