this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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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.
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I agree, and my criticism wasn't about anyone's being vegan or not, just their shitty attitude towards people losing a restaurant and jobs.
I do hope people don't wade into a pro/anti vegan slugfest. I would rather see if people think the rules were fairly enforced.
Man, I troll that kind of vegan, and those mods are the kind that swallow the bait with eagerness.
There's actually a really great plantbased C/ now that isn't run by the zealots, so there's friendly convos going on. It's so nice to see.
That being said, within their idea of what that community is supposed to be, they do treat everyone equally badly when they voice even the tiniest hint of anything other than fervor. So, it's relatively fair, in that they don't play favorites, and apply mod actions consistently. They may use shitty rules that aren't clearly spelled out, but they apply them in a predictable way.
It's why, even though I would cackle at them if they rose to bait, I don't ever feel comfortable calling it power tripping. It's crap, it makes the community suck, and it makes it difficult on any vegan that isn't a zealot. But that's a different issue to me.
Now, there's mods of other vegan communities that are power tripping as hell. Well, one, but I ain't going into drama that old beyond using it as how I draw that line. A different mod in a different vegan community decided to issue bans to all his communities because of someone (me) not agreeing with him in the way he wanted to see it. That's power tripping.
Someone being a crap mod and running a community poorly isn't the same thing, if you get where I'm coming from.
Crap mods can end up being fair, simply by virtue of being crappy to everyone lol.