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.
All posts should follow this basic structure:
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.
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Argument about why an instance doesn't want to federate with another instance that's devoted to political trolling. Apparently that kind of behavior is simply a core tenet of the belief system, and to criticize it is to reject the whole ideology.
It was you who was behaving like an entitled asshole. YDI. People can hate on Cowbee's politics all they like (and they relentlessly do, poor guy), but he's probably one of our calmest and most patient lemmy users. Especially considering all the abuse he gets simply for commenting.
I don't agree with Cowbee's politics, different ends to the means and I don't think the USSR's pros can outweigh the 95% of the cons.
But he's at least patient and respectful until he has a reason to be a bit more direct. I've never seen him throw insults at people who insult him constantly.
Out of all the major players on .ml, they're the one I tolerate the most.
~~Can't wait until MoG uses this as proof we're tankies for wanting a civil conversation between people.~~
I enjoy reading their comments too. I don't often agree and they're not always perfect in an argument, but they are often informative.
Entitled to what...?
Hello, this is Carcosa and my hexbear account made both the post and comment that was referenced by the .world admins.
The comment referenced by .world admins was a throw away comment and not a "instance representing statement" I have come to realize that is impossible on an admin account and should not have made the comment.
The post itself was an instance statement, but as cowbee has pointed out in the original post the sentence that the .world admins bolded was not. In addition the .world admin post left out context such as the fact that a portion of the statement was a collaboration of the "news mega crew" which is a large group of moderators and users who primarily interact through the instance through the site pinned news mega post.
As also mentioned hexbear existed for years before federation and was a frequent target for raids organized by other places. Combined with no downvotes this created a unique site posting culture that I knew would clash with the wider fediverse. I was hoping to try and bridge the gap in any way i could.
Including working with other instance admins however the initial poisoning of the well done by the .world admins in matrix has made that difficult.
There was heated discussion in the admin matrix between myself and antik over the fact he was convinced that hexbear brigades but as I said then and will now.
Show me where there is a credible call to action from an admin/mod targeting a specific instance, community, user, post or comment.
There isn't and the descendant of the instance that abused the rammy instance is still federated (hilarious-chaos) Those admins made credible calls to action asking their users to brigade a linked post. Hexbear has never done that.
One of hilarious chaos' admins alice intentionally leaked out of context screenshots from those admin matrix channels to maliciously attack other instance admins is no problem for .world admins who remain federated with hilarious-chaos.
Based on these facts (.world remains federated with hilarious chaos despite their admins engaging in two forms of toxic behaviors while pre-emtively defederating from hexbear) one can conclude that political differences is the motivation. I would respect that being the stated reasoning more than the bad-faith accusations made.
Regardless Hexbear users will never vote to federate with .world so the ultimately any discussion of federation between .world and hexbear is pointless.
goodness gracious I read the entire argument. YDI. I'm actually kind of surprised at how long they allowed that to go on and give you the benefit of the doubt before finally putting a stop to it.
and you aren't even banned for that long. just 5 days.
5 days is like a lifetime to those glued to social media.
To some, being banned for 2 weeks means you might as well have told them to cut off their hands and sow their mouth shut.
Looks like a few posts with some decent points and like thirty messages of arguing about the argument where it gets so meta I can't even tell who's arguing what.
I donno if it deserved a ban but I could see a mod wanting to shut it down.
And jesus christ, you're still fighting about the bolding here? Everyone involved sucks.
This post is really sparse, you should see the "Posting Guidelines" in the sidebar for what you ought to include.
5 day ban, YDM
YDI. You were sealioning and deliberately playing in bad-faith, such as (but not limited to) when you claimed nothing in the screenshotted text was bolded when it was. Your ban had nothing to do with the argument, but with the sealioning.