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since my perception is that people like to harass him apparently for no legitimate reason at all
You don't end up as one of the two most talked about PTBs in this community with there being "no reason at all".
My general approach is to look into things, when one or a bunch of people claim that it's true. Often it is true. Sometimes it is not. Usually, the times when it is not are a lot more interesting.
I don't plan to abandon that approach and replace it with "if a whole bunch of people say something then it automatically must be true." That way is easier, of course, and you can go with it if you like. I'll stick to my approach.
The receipts are all there, if you care to look. Nobody has deleted them.
But in this case, despite your underhanded implication, let’s just admit you have a preconceived notion and aren’t interested in the many documented instances of FlyingSquid and jordanlund being assholes. You aren’t going to look into this.
Why are you talking to me about this? Pretty much every time it comes up, I ask people for examples, and then I go and look at them. I actually have a bookmark saved right now for a good example of FS being kind of a jerk that I found all on my own and thought might be relevant, at some point. Why did you come back to sort of hassle me about this on a week-old topic?
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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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- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
- 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).
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