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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:

  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

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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.

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Y'all know about Anarchist Nexus and Lumnous5481 putting "Murder all Zionists" in their display name, verbatim, leading to predictable strife with other instance personnel they were implicitly or explicitly calling to murder. I had several arguments here amounting to, it doesn't really matter how bad you think the group in question is; you can't just say 'kill them all' and act aghast when people have follow-up questions.

Two days after the last of these arguments, MysticMushroom1776 decided that 'it's not a matter of who' was too apologistic, and banned me from all the communities they control. None of which I've ever posted in or care about. Okay.

I think I downvoted a post on MeanwhileOnWorld once, and if that's the impetus, Christ, that's sad.

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[–] kip@piefed.zip 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=75&actionType=ModBanFromCommunity&modId=14007283

?page=75

using the .world modlog as it lets you filter by mod. seventy five pages of bans from shit slop comms nobody ever visits. can it even be counted as power tripping if the power exerted is barely perceptible?

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If they are so "shit" and "nobody ever visits," then no reason for people to be upset about being banned from them. Right?

[–] kip@piefed.zip 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

right, that was the point, may not have been clear enough. OP noticed theirs but the other approx 1.5k bans issued by the same mod are unlikely to have been noticed or cared about. dbzer0 has 1.4k users a month on the front page stats: i just banned you all from my house. take that suckers. is it really power tripping if it never affected you anyway?

Yes, thank you for the clarification. I get ya now!

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Or those are noise to occult the channel.