Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

A mod from World News@lemmy.world.

What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

I had my comment removed and received a one-day ban.

Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).

Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).

Original post: Pope is in ‘critical’ condition after suffering ‘asthmatic respiratory crisis,’ Vatican says

Like many of us on Lemmy, I think the Catholic church is responsible for a lot of evil in the world, including the way they were/are directly involved in blocking access to contraception leading to the needless death of millions of Africans due to the AIDs epidemic, the endless cases of child sex abuse, along with the ongoing coverups, and honestly too many awful things to mention in detail here.

So I left a comment that said:

The Catholic church at this point has all the moral authority of a child sex cult.

Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Amend community rule 4 to remove the reference to religion. WTF is it doing there as a rule in a news community in the first place? Is LW being run as a theocracy now?

Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ~~anti-religious,~~ or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.

The mod in question is also ~~a~~ religious ~~weirdo~~ (see below during a discussion about Luigi), so perhaps that is why they have the rule in place. But if that community not going to accept fair criticism of religion then it isn't a serious news community imo.

I fully acknowledge it wasn't a long ban and the rule was in place, so it was perhaps a BPR or YDI in that sense. But the rule shouldn't be there in the first place. How on earth is it justified? And looking at the other votes and comments on that post, it's clear that the the vast majority of folks hate the Catholics church as much as I do. So why is this mod running defence for the famously morally bankrupt Catholic church in a world news community?

Credit to the OP of the "Homie's shelf" meme.

Thanks @ChadMcTruth@lemmy.world for sponsoring this meme with the blank shelf image.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36828107

ID: WookieeMark @EvilGenXer posted:

"OK so look, Capitalism is right wing.

Period.

If you are pro-capitalism, you are Right Wing.

There is no pro-capitalist Left. That's a polite fiction in the US that no one can afford any longer as the ecosystem is actually collapsing around us."

“If you want an analogy for the present state of America it’s perhaps not an out-and-out fascist regime, but a Vichy regime,” wrote John Ganz, a left-leaning author, in a Substack newsletter on 21 January. “It’s partly fascist but mostly just a reactionary and defeatist catch-all. It’s a regime born of capitulation and of defeat: of the slow and then sudden collapse of the longstanding institutions of a great democracy whose defenders turned out to be senile and unable to cope with or understand modern politics.”

President Donald Trump is following through on a policy put forward by Project 2025 that calls for federal law enforcement to investigate, and potentially criminally prosecute, local authorities who refuse to cooperate with his administration’s mass deportation plans. On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order — and his Department of Justice released a subsequent memo — that put the Project 2025 proposal into practice.

Ahoy mateys!

We are closing the voting on this topic a couple of days early as the result is already conclusive., Our threshold for passing the motion was for 2/3 of voting members in favor. We have far exceeded that threshold (see below) and have a good number of overall responses, so the proposed policy change has now been approved and takes effect immediately.

Our new policy on Xitter links

1. No Xitter links are to be posted on this instance from the date of this announcement.
2. Workarounds such as link shorteners and alternative front-ends that resolve to Xitter posts are also banned.
3. Screenshots will still be permitted as per the overwhelming number of comments in support of this option.
4. Exception: In rare cases there may be a need to verify the veracity of a Xitter post. If this need arises, then you may post a https://xcancel.com/ or https://archive.is/ version of the link. Please note this option should only be used sparingly and exclusively for fact-checking purposes.

We will begin communicating this instance policy change to all our users today.

Please try to be helpful to anyone who accidentally posts a Xitter link who may not yet be aware of the policy change, and/or feel free to report in the usual way.

N.B.: For the loopholers - by "Xitter links" we mean any links to content hosted on X (formerly Twitter). Alternative Xitter front-ends are also banned under this policy, unless exception #4 applies. Edit: The ban also applies to other Xitter-owned domains such as their photo blobstore (pbs) domain at pbd.twimg.com

Thanks to everyone involved for participating in the vote!

**The final tally is as follows: **

• For: (2), (7), (5), (3), (2), (1)
• Against:
• Local Community: +2.6
• Outsider sentiment: Very Positive
• Total: +22.6
• Percentage: 100.00%

To break this down a little differently:

• Home instance users voted 93% in favor of the proposal (284/307)
• External instance users voted 97% in favor of the proposal (70/72 note: these are not counted, but good to know)
• Donating and vouched for users voted 100% in favor of the proposal (20/20 votes).

Cross-posted from "Legality" by @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com in !flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Hi mateys,

Please go to the following link to cast your vote on this topic. Votes will only be counted on the original post link below:

• Direct link: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36114134
• Lemmyverse universal link: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36114134

Thanks in advance for helping us to test the new dbzer0 governance voting system.

:)