this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
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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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OpinionHaver was making claims that did not pass basic scanning of his comment history.
I linked up his comment for context. I don't think that's derailing. That's how good discourse happens. In fact, it is my opinion, that these "rules" are generally used to censor content, which is what happened here at least in my opinion.
But sure, if entire comment thread got nuke, it would be harder for me to make these claims.
But week in, week out around here we see these patterns of censorship around topics that are sensitive to the regime but we still pretend as if these "mods" are "modding" and not censoring.
By far your comment is the least problematic of the bunch, and it's only a problem because it's in the middle of that ruckus - it is further derailing the discussion, even if not the one starting it.
Personally I'd keep it on, because I agree with you. For me it's a matter of transparency - if you remove stuff here and there suddenly nobody knows who said what. But I still see grounds for nuking the whole comment chain (including the top comment), to avoid a flamewar and make sure the rules are enforced.
Sadly you're right.