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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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Davel, who is an admin, does the exact same and is in this very thread.
Whataboutism
I can't comment since I haven't seen any bans by him. Not sure how it is relevant here either.
Okay, you can read here about the unjust bans and being an unhinged narcissist
Ok, clearly not acceptable. But I still don't see much relevance to this thread?
I'm just making sure you agree that Davels isn't an ideal moderator too
I glanced over and I am finding his views much more concerning.
Still that is really not relevant. I am sure there is plenty of crap moderators out there. I am finding PugJesus particularly bad after revenge ban in unrelated community after an argument in completly different community. He should be removed straight away after that.
I've since removed him, yeah.
Thanks, I believe it was the right decision. Funnily enough, I don't have many issues with PugJesus views at all. It is his moderation which is a problem.
Pretty much opposite to the other example you gave where I have major issues with this person views. His moderation merely follows this ideological pattern, that's all.
Davels does the exact same thing, but much worse
Admittedly, I haven't read all thread you linked but I haven't noticed anything personal in his bans. He seems to follow his ideological line.
Now, I strongly disagree with his excuses for Russian aggression, denial of attempted genocide of Ukrainians, attempt to whitewash Tienanmen massacre etc. But when he bans/deletes/etc it looks like he does it because he is trying to hide facts inconvenient to the regimes he supports. Not because someone argued with him in a different thread about something completely unrelated.
In another words, his moderation is completely unsurprising for his dictatorship-supporting instance and a reason I tend to not wander into tankie part of Lemmyverse.
It appears to be a completely different issue to PugJesus.
But how else could Goat deflect blame?
Pug is his friend. They must use Whataboutism to deflect blame!
Credit where it's due, Goat did remove PJ and agree that the ban reasons were invalid, so that shows good faith. And other bad mods exist, if we have to say that :p
Indeed, other bad mods are a thing everywhere.