1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world

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

Ban & comment removal.

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

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

I commented that I am not sure @arlesh@lemmy.world even verified the story is even real. Instead of proving me with another source that the story is real, I was deemed a troll, banned, and all my comments removed. If this is how criticism is remedied, I am not sure what I want fixed.

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    What was your exact comment? Are you saying stories on the New York Times web page have to be independently verified? That’s kind of a high bar for a random user to clear.

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      I believe it was:

      Did OP even verify this was real news?

      I do not know how to look up my deleted comment.

      Are you saying stories on the New York Times web page have to be independently verified?

      Secondary sourcing is fine with me, as I am aware random lemmies are not journalists. But there is nothing to unsuggest NYT isn’t making a slop/fakenews. Which why I requested verification, from mod & OP.

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        I believe it was:

        I agree that’s approximately what you replied to my comment. (Voyager won’t let me see it for some reason.) You also made two other top-level comments at basically the same time which were, IIRC, “This is fake news

        And yeah, acccessing deleted comments on Lemmy is annoying. I wish the user who posted it could still view it; it’d make appeals easier.

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          They were different comments, one to OP, yours, and the last one I corrected as it was my mistake (the one you’re lastly referring to). The one to OP was something along:

          NYSlop isn’t a reliable source, find a secondary source