Tf is a sidebar? Some desktop browser thing?
It's where you go when they won't serve you at your usual bar because YGYFSIBYDIBYWSFDANSC.
I can't even view the sidebar on my app in a post, I have to go to the community page.
Also, please don't turn this into acronym soup like Reddit was at times.
It seems like Cuck Lives Matter after all.
Other alternative meanings:
- PTB: Poorly Timed Boner
- BPR: Ball Punch Recipient
I wasn't active on the AITA like subreddits, I only wandered there from r/all, and usually saw there only 2 acronyms: NTA and YTA or something like that. Maybe they had other ones, but the vast majority were these 2. And without proper knowledge it was clear, that they basically mean Yes and No. Here it's not really straightforward, and not everyone uses them yet.
I'm not against communities having borderline annoying and stupid rules, it's just early yet, with few subscribers and most of the comments don't use them. E.g. it should be a rule that all top level comments should start with these acronyms, I'm pretty sure everyone would learn these things quickly. On the aforlinked post from yesterday, only one of these were used, so I didn't even expect it should be some local specific thing. If every second comment contained CLM,I would have figured out something special going on here, CLM is not just about the Cucks
E.g. it should be a rule that all top level comments should start with these acronyms, I’m pretty sure everyone would learn these things quickly.
Seems like a quite coercive approach. I'm not the mod, but from what I got from their previous comments, the acronyms are more here as guidance than mandatory. It would be quite cumbersome to force people to use them, and probably do more harm than good for the growth of the community.
Yeah, I usually only go read the sidebar if I get confused about something in a post. I'm usually scrolling all on mobile, so it's extra effort to go there lol
Your sidebar is on the "side".
My sidebar is down below.
We are not the same (apparently!:-P).
Yours is down below? Mine is under a separate section entirely lol. Every app has gotta put the "sidebar" in a different place. I wonder if the different web UIs move it around too 🤔.
Photon looks a bit different - it's still on the side, but there are collapsible elements.
Voyager looks very different - I don't even see the sidebar at all, or how to get to it or anything. Oh wait no: if you can manage to get to the community page, then inside the hamburger menu a new option appears for "Sidebar" - like I can see that for this community (except that is not the community name that shows up everywhere else?! it looks like it's showing purely the short-form version, not the nicknamed/long-form one i.e. "Lemmy.World Announcements" for !lemmyworld@lemmy.world).\
For those not initiated (or Arch users btw) it seems that it can be quite daunting!
Imagine if the creator and regular users of a community were allowed to speak how they wished, without new users dictating to them what was "allowed" or not!?
Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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.
Rules
- Post only about bans or other sanctions from mod(s).
- Provide the cause of the sanction (e.g. the text of the comment).
- Provide the reason given by the mods for the sanction.
- Don't use private communications to prove your point. We can't verify them and they can be faked easily.
- Don't deobfuscate mod names from the modlog with admin powers.
- Don't harass mods or brigade comms. Don't word your posts in a way that would trigger such harassment and brigades.
- Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.
- You can post about power trippin' in any social media, not just lemmy. Feel free to post about reddit or a forum etc.
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.
Some acronyms you might see.
- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
- YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
- BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
- CLM - Clueless mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.
Relevant comms