Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

@rimu@piefed.social

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

Mass instance bans

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

Done

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

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

He has abused the modlog to claim ‘harassment’, which I have never engaged in. I have not even interacted with Rimu in any way for days prior to getting kicked from the PieFed developer Matrix channels.

He has decided to mass ban 20 users because they have spoken out against his erratic and hostile behaviour as of late.

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      I’m out here posting commie shit every day and getting into fights about it. But occasionally I take a peek at MoG and I’ve never seen my name there, it’s always just Cowbee this and Cowbee that. Now I don’t even make the blocklist.

      What am I, chopped liver?

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          1 month ago

          They loathe you because they can’t dismiss you without doing a bunch of reading they otherwise wouldnt do

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            1 month ago

            I tend to agree. If I were more aggressive, then it’s easy to dismiss me as a troll, but I deliberately choose not to do that.

        • curbstickle@anarchist.nexus
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          1 month ago

          I’m pretty sure any interaction you and I have had was about as luke warm as yesterday’s tea, and I think even that would be more heated than any interaction ive had with rimu. I think I once commented about someones preferred pronouns not being used? Eh, whatever.

          Apparently I’m wayyyy more ban worthy than you.

          Edit: I want a sticker to commemorate this event.

          Edit 2: Oh, and for the record I think it was something like “they prefer x”, and you replied with “whoops, let me correct”. I don’t want to imply it was some sort of negative interaction and give folks the wrong impression.

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          1 month ago

          I honestly wonder if they ignore me because I’m meaner. But who knows what goes on in their heads.

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            1 month ago

            I suspect it too, I frequently have to revise my comments to tone them down before posting (and even after) because I know confrontation just turns people off of productive discussion, but I think this causes cognitive dissonance in some rather extreme reactionaries. Few people mildly dislike me, it seems either varying degrees of neutrality or positive views, or otherwise extreme hatred. Just what I’ve noticed.

          • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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            29 days ago

            Honestly it’s probably the amount of text. A few of the people who got banned are dyed in the wool multi-paragraph to full book of text posters. Cowbee and Staments being the absolute gods of this.

            I bet that list is just a stack ranked list of numbers of words in threads they didn’t like, and Rimu just banned line the top 50.

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              29 days ago

              No one has ever accused me of not posting walls of texts before 🤣

              I think you’re right about it being about a specific thread though.

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      Is my name on the list?
      Yes Sir
      Sh…
      Oh, but it actually has a different surname
      Phew

      You see, surnames are important. With them, you get a working fedilink, instead of a broken one.

      (I don’t care about the drama. I just saw users getting caught by this bug.)

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        1 month ago

        Iso@lemy.lol is the former admin of lemy.lol. It’s also a bit odd because Piefed.social defederated from lemy.lol over their logo and Iso has told Rimu to go fuck himself a few times over it. The fact that he decided to block him here and now is telling because it proves its a personal hitlist and not coordinated harassment as he wants to claim. Otherwise, why wasn’t he blocked prior? And even then, why block an account now from a defederated instance?

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          1 month ago

          That’s really funny. Probably means rimu is maintaining a personal shit-list and decided to just copy-paste it to piefeds banlist.

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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            1 month ago

            I think this is accurate, and I believe based on the evidence Rimu is sharing it with other instance admins to try to push a universal ban list.

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            30 days ago

            I’ve got no other explanation for why he’s banning users that he has already defederated from. The only way he could be coralling that list is if he’s looking at stuff from another instance and attempting to control the narrative for other admins.