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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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- 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).
- Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
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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.
- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
- 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.
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My existing beliefs render me miserable and alienated.
In actuality, I do want someone to demonstrate to me in a way that convinces me. But I'll concede and I'm very good at being convincing in my own defenses of my beliefs to myself.
I have to be ruthless in that way though. If I don't push back as hard as possible, I also wont be convinced that I'm wrong then either.
In a sense, me declaring things is mostly in hopes for a refutation from you with solid reasoning or evidence (though evidence is hard to conjure for ideological arguments). If I ask you what you believe, you will just give me some 101 or something, which wont convince me of anything.
Also to be clear I was using a bit hyperbole with the r-slur statement. Honestly though I have a pretty internally consistent set of reasoning to justify my usage of it.
But whatever, I'm pretty burnt out on my search at this point. My previous post had me increasingly wondering if I just need to get off Lemmy/piefed/whatever. Every time I get into an argument on here it doesn't serve any purpose but to put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day anyway. Just arguing with people not interested in challenging ideas or any ideological dissection. Its always an attack on personal virtue and that's intellectually worthless.
If you're genuinely interested in having a discussion and not a pointless argument, I'd be happy to discuss. Like I said, IMO, it's better to ask questions than just yelling what you already believe at people and talking to them like they're inferior or not as smart as you or something, you'll never get a good response if you approach political discussions like that. Just be curious, if you disagree, instead of saying "NO U R WRONG AND SHIT" you can just say "can you explain a bit more what you mean? in my experience xyz" and you'll get better results in my experience
Anyways my DMs are open, probably better to chat directly rather than using replies if you want.