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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.

Rules


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.


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[–] ToastedCoconuts@piefed.blahaj.zone 142 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (5 children)

I don't understand how Patrick hiding a DDOS attack in his "goodbye" message isn't grounds for banning his alts on that server according to their policy. It literally is breaking the law in many countries

Edit: for that matter, .world should consider the same for his alts there

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Lemmy.world isn't going to take action against his account. They already don't take actions against the no-content sockpuppet accounts and extremist trolls who use their instance. They should take action against them, they likely won't though.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

I just think it's hilarious that instead of "saving" the fediverse they fractured it. Whiney bitches love to break shit then whine about it being broken.

[–] ProbablyUnwise@anarchist.nexus 39 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I would say they've brought the fediverse together like never before. I don't think this many people have agreed on a single thing in the history of fedi.

I would definitely agree. Despite our differences, we all have one thing in common. We don't like being deceived by those who build the frontends we use. We trust our credentials to these people and trust they aren't going to screw us over. He violated that trust and people are right to be pissed about it.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

Can't have your little kingdom when it's not fractured from the whole.

[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 34 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

How many do you think he's got? I swear I just found one called Eristalis created a day ago lol

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 22 points 9 hours ago

James R Kirk - he was posting like an impartial observer on Fediverse vs Disinformation @db0 in a breakdown of the ban list thread. Things like:

The dev posted a response in c/Tesseract but you're mostly correct. They wanted to make it easier for like minded future admins to be able to spin up a Lemmy instance without having to know all of the lore.

Then when people called him out he started becoming a frothing troll.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 11 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

looks like cardboardcruncher6400 is another, He's basically manifestoing all over the shitpost thread

[–] ToastedCoconuts@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm losing count of his sock puppets at this point

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

there's another one asking "reasonable" questions and claiming noscript blocks db0 (and intimating it's therefore suss)

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 24 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the dude saying how everyone who blew up over the shitlist was doing illegal shit is one too

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Doing illegal shit is a requirement for being a human rights activist in the USA today.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 hours ago

always has been

[–] yoru77@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 12 hours ago

This whole situation is bizzare