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.
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I honestly don't know what's going on there. The sole mod and contributor of the community keeps posting low quality shit purely to bash on Linux and people kept calling him out in the posts and getting banned from the comm for that.
Now I noticed the same mod has just locked comments on all posts to prevent having to ban anyone commenting on their memes
Its just a troll lol, block the comm if it isn't funny to you
Maybe it does not violate any "moderation" rules but it does definitely violate lemmy.world TOS on several counts
He didnt respond to my ban appeal request, which is a requirement of moderators.
Which ones does it violate, maybe we should get lemmy.world admins on this. I mean they've acted on his community before when he used an ableist slur, but they don't seem to have done much else lately. Though they also might not be aware of how much it has devolved.
As far as I remember: "Attack on people", "Do not harm(possibly a stretch)" and possibly another one. Granted I do not care for dark humor or vulgar language(even against my own beliefs) but it is very different when it is constant targeting like with this community.
Hmm yeah, that makes sense. Some things there could be considered spam as well, the same way that someone making nonsensical meaningless posts would be not okay (posts like this would probably be considered in that category, and this is most of all that's been posted there lately).
@kersploosh@lemmy.world What do you think? Does this seem like it goes against LW's TOS or User conduct rules? Personally I feel like !linuxsucks@lemmy.world is skirting the boundary but there's times it goes too far.
Unfortunately, this not the only community where a mod aggressively pushes a narrative and bans anyone who objects. It's a point of discussion among the .world team. Stay tuned for possible updates.
Agree, even if it does not violate any rule now there should be a rule on communities based purely on bad intent/faith. I've seen the posts and while ridicule/comedy is fine, it takes the next step of trying to humiliate people.
A counter example would be some of the memes I have uploaded to c/linuxmemes, it makes fun of our biases and defects but never insulting people.
So?
the mod of that community is running a very specific, almost personal, project. i won’t say it’s 100% certainly without doubt satire but those are the vibes. their entire persona/digital characterization is so obviously flawed and reactionary as to give the impression of absurdity. poe’s law type of situation.
a lot of people really dislike the project for understandable reasons. i personally find it entertaining. but the reality is no one is forcing you to see stuff you don’t like. very easy to block the community.
i won’t say it’s 100% certainly without doubt satire but those are the vibes.
It's not. I recall someone asking the mod what the point of the community was, and they explicitly said they're acting in earnest. They don't just want to satire Linux, there's an agenda and a mean spirit behind it.
Too bad they are terrible at making biting or satirical points, and they often come off looking uneducated. It's not really even ironically funny; it's just kinda sad.
yeah because it’s impossible for them to lie lol
Sure, but that would be a weird thing to lie about. Also, it wasn't just a three-word "yeah I'm serious," there was more context to it.
That's how trolls draw people in further so they can more deeply upset them, it's not a weird lie at all.
the entire concept of the comm is weird tho. i can’t do vibes based judgement here personally. to me it is silly to take anything such a cartoonish character says seriously, including their statement of earnestness.
"When somebody tells you who they are, believe them." The cost of me taking them seriously and being wrong is low, and it's not an outlandish or exceptional possibility that they're in earnest. The internet is choc full of weirdos with strange fixations, so I see no reason why I should assume they're joking.
If they're that bad at conveying satire, and they're not actually being serious, they should just quit now.
again, fair, my point is i don’t assume either way. i find the community entertaining but i think people should just block the community if it bugs them or report it if they have evidence it’s TOS violating. there’s no way anyone is going to verbally make this guy act right.
Hurt fee-fees are a bigger issue on lemmy than reddit.
Far more drama here.
I just had a mosey through, and oh boy does that person need a hobby. Making fun of Linux and annoying it's fans is a noble goal, especially here, but they're not doing a good job.
I love Linux, but everybody needs a good reminder that they're not the shit, once in a while, and satire/memes are a great way to do that. Too bad that particular mod doesn't know how to do either.
It's a shame, because it had the potential to be a great source of creative, self-deprecating humor, but instead, it's just mean and trite.
Yeah, some genuine satirisation of some of the shit Linux fans come out with would be amazing.
They're completely unaware of how much technical gobbeldygook they come out with most of the time.
I do like Linux, but I'm kind of amused at the insistence that ext4 volumes on HDDs don't ever need to be defragged. Microsoft said the same thing about NTFS and look how that turned out. Fragmentation is a consequence of having finite storage and can't be solved by just making a better FS. Throw seek times in and ext4 on an HDD does, in fact, benefit from regular defragging.
That's not true. Yes there's differences in how FS' handle files. ext4 doesn't need regular defragging because it self-defragging as part of its normal operation. Yes there may be cases where one needs to do a manual defrag on an almost completely full ext4 fs, but those would be extraordinarily rare.
When I talk about technical gobbeldygook, this is exactly what I mean. And FOSS enthusiasts will act like it's all plainly obvious.
I don't even understand it sometimes, but I'm glad somebody does, because it doesn't sound like something I would want to be in charge of!
Also a lot of the recent posts are nonsense. Not like making points that are wrong, but are nonsensical and meaningless. Like one post which is just a picture of a phone running windows claiming Linux is configurable.
If one wanted to criticize Linux that is absolutely the wrong way to do it.
It's clearly meant to be r/linuxsucks but with them as regent and sole arbitrator of purity. They're literally banning people for "subversion," a term primarily describing the attempt to overthrow a political system or the undermining of morals or faith. They ban for "subversion," "poor morals," "evangelism," "pollution," and that's just the first page of the mod log.
If he were getting off on the attention he wouldn't have locked down the community.
Someone made a post about this just a couple weeks ago. Yeah that guy is a silly ass. Just ignore him, it's best for all concerned.
That dude is a sad little creature that probably has nothing else in life that gives him a feeling of validation. I think he's mildly amusing, actually.
I think he's mildly amusing, actually
Yeah, been loosely following his story evolve, and lot of their stuff is like "that's so stupid it's funny" but there's some other, more serious stuff like defending slavery (us prison shit) and victim blaming (when cops kill) that makes it very slimy and disgusting
Haven't been following the guy that closely but I'm not at all surprised.
Sounds hilarious
It should be, but it ends up just being kind of sad like a jilted lover trying to villify their ex.
I mean when you're in an echo chamber this intense it's natural to lash out. I kind of expected something like that to pop up eventually.
A lot of the Linux subs have lively discussions on the pros and cons of Linux. I've never seen any instance where legitimate criticism was suppressed. Of course there's an overall consensus that Linux is a good thing. But that doesn't stop anyone from arguing a different viewpoint. The fact that this dude has to ban any dissent just shows that he has nothing of substance to say.
The name of the community might give you a hint about their not-so-serious stance on a particular thing
Didn't he lock the community and begin locking every post to keep people from replying? How are people still getting banned if they're not able to post or comment there anymore?
No one has been banned or removed from the community since the lockdown this post is just bringing up old news.