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.
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.
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.
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.
5 day ban, YDM
Holy God... you are talking to Cowbee. Rookie mistake.
I have no idea about the substance of your ban, because I got bored before coming anywhere close to reading the whole thread, but more or less, the type of behavior you encountered is why these guys are banned in a lot of places. It's weird transparently dishonest boosterism combined with claiming the right to "destroy" and troll anyone who is an enemy, also lying about what your opponents believe and why they believe it, and then getting aggressive with anyone who dares to disagree, and then inevitably whining about the colossal ideological unfairness when they inevitably get banned.
lemmy.ml and Cowbee are best left alone I think, except periodically to point the way out to freedom for anyone who's wandered into their orbit accidentally.
For anyone reading: The context is here, including Cowbee being published on lemmy.world while aggressively whining that his team is forbidden from speaking on lemmy.world for ideological reasons, and then this comment (from this thread) as I guess the final instigation for the ban:
No, you directly lied in the face of evidence and claimed no bolding happened
Wrong.
You’re fully aware of the absurdity of your replies, any treatment of your “points” as anything other than the trolling they’ve been would be fruitless.
Projection. Open invitation to stop playing this little game and engage with my response.
This one made me laugh though. You're not wrong. I get the impulse to want to spend extensive time trying to prove Cowbee wrong and hope he or someone involved will see the error of him, but that's the playing-chess-with-the-pigeon game, probably a tactical mistake to spend too much time on.
Not feeding trolls is a forgotten art. I think it's because everyone is taught to feed the algo nowadays, but it's disappointing it's not better in the fediverse.
Edit: Oh dear. The guy wrote an essay on why he's the hero for getting in shouting matches with idiots =/
A while back I weighed in on the "Hasan Piker shocked his dog with a dog collar" controversy. To no one's surprise, a whole bunch of shouty people emerged to write all sorts of excitingly unproductive comments to me. After a while of fumbling with how to cope with it, I made the policy that every time one of them posted something hostile and content-free at me, I would make a whole new post of some horrible video about Hasan and link them to it. It took them a few repetitions, but eventually I think they realized that they were producing the opposite impact as they were aiming for, and every comment of theirs was spreading the criticism instead of bullying the criticism into silence as they had intended. They stopped interacting with me lmao.
Similarly I tend to get banned from Hexbear and lemmy.ml. I don't think you should troll the trolls, and definitely you shouldn't just play the straight man to their little game, but modern trolls in the Lemmy sense aren't usually just trying to amp up pointless controversy for no reason. They usually have a goal. If you stop playing the game they are trying to dictate to you, and instead just work to undermine the goal, it's all of a sudden not fun for them anymore and they leave you alone. This has been my experience.
You gotta imaging anyone spending as much time as them anywhere on the internet, doing that much typing, being so obtuse and weird.
They will always respond. They have infinite time and energy, they will never engage your argument in any form of good faith unless it exactly meets their political requirements, and their job is to find a way to find classify you as an out group the minute you wrong- think.
Engage if you want with that in mind, they also won't block you, which is fun in a different way.
So what would an acceptable "good faith" way of disagreeing with you look like? Because at a certain point it just seems like anything other than just immediately conceding to you is considered "bad faith"
You gotta imaging anyone spending as much time as them anywhere on the internet, doing that much typing, being so obtuse and weird.
looks around nervously Haha yeah... yeah...
Lmao, you're one of the good ones Phil!
Ha, I appreciate it
