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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.
Posting Guidelines
All posts should follow this basic structure:
- 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.
Rules
- Post only about bans or other sanctions that you have received from a mod or admin.
- Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
- Don’t deobfuscate mod names from the modlog with admin powers.
- Don’t harass mods or brigade comms. Don’t word your posts in a way that would trigger such harassment and brigades.
- Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.
- You can post about power trippin’ in any social media, not just lemmy. Feel free to post about reddit or a forum etc.
- If you are the accused PTB, while you are welcome to respond, please do so within the relevant post.
Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.
YPTB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.
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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First, I was never notified, and it was a week ago that I saw the deleted posts. Although I don't have a screenshot of how much time passed, I don't need to make a big deal out of something that "was fair," and in this case, it wasn't. That tactic of taking screenshots of deleted posts to say "we warned you for months" when the ban was only a week ago is cheap manipulation. By deleting the posts recently due to the ban, they create false "evidence" that they try to pass off as a long history of "disobedience." It's a way to justify their own incompetence and lack of artistic judgment. If the ban was a week ago, there are no "months" of warnings. They're trying to rewrite the timeline to make it seem like I'm the "rebel" and you're the "patient" ones, when in reality, you're the ones who can't distinguish a human figure from a furry. Furthermore, I realized something while being "new to Lemmy" that you either don't or conveniently choose not to mention. The dates you show in your screenshot aren't from the exact moment the post was deleted; they're from the moment the post was made. Therefore, your "argument" that "they've been deleting them for months" is even more invalid. And I literally realized this by looking at your own deleted comments and posts. How ironic that a newbie foreigner would notice something so convenient, right? So yes, I'm still right that I was banned a week ago without any prior warning.
Second, is this the same old issue of whether I post in English again? Seriously? Some of you seem to think only Americans post here. These sites are universal, and English is used for that purpose, whether you like it or not. I'm noticing a certain condescension regarding this issue, which isn't even relevant to the case itself. Do you expect me to post in my language when many probably won't translate it? What a ridiculous argument. The "you don't know English and you still post" attack is pure xenophobia. On a global platform like Lemmy, using a translator to participate is perfectly valid. Using it as a weapon to invalidate your technical opinion about art is pathetic. Basically, they're telling you: "You don't have the right to defend your art if you don't speak our language perfectly."
Third, believe me, I did want to contact the moderators, but as I said, messaging on this site doesn't guarantee that my messages will reach them, and there isn't even a chat section outside of other apps the site recommends, and I'm not going to register there. Or maybe it's just my own inability to know where it is or how to use it. I'm not going to mess with something I don't know.
Fourth, I never said "I don't know how to post," read carefully, I wrote "I post on Lemmy and I'm leaving." You can accuse me of whatever you want, but I didn't break any rules. They never warned me because I never received any notifications, and that "they deleted it months ago" thing—so why did the posts disappear a week ago? Your accusation doesn't make sense. I've literally been posting since October, and the few posts I published—I never received a single warning, nor did anyone even tell me, "We consider this furry" (even though it isn't, under any circumstances). If I hadn't posted my characters, I would have stopped posting, period. I would have posted something else or just left on my own. But if you think I'm such a bad user for defending my art against injustice, that's your problem. I know what I did and what I didn't do.
Literally, the only furry thing is the TMNT fanart; the rest aren't furries. But you guys don't seem to get that. I've been polite, I've been patient, but calling me a liar is a whole other level for you. And on top of that, you're being condescending about the language, as if posting in English, Spanish, Italian, French, or whatever is important. What a way to deflect the issue and make me look like a problem for something you did without even telling me.
Having said all that, because I don't plan to continue a fight I didn't start, but rather wanted to end before it became a public circus due to your incompetence. If I'm the villain in your story, fine, I'm not going to keep justifying the obvious; I've already made everything crystal clear.