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.
Keep the comments in YPTB posts about the moderation action itself, not about the general topic in which the moderation took place.

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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Update-> I Was Banned Comments blocked on the Ukraine community for being considered "Rule 3"? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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edit with NO WARNING I was banned from the Ukraine community... on my own instance

edit2 a post asking why I was removed and banned was also removed, lol this is pathetic

edit3 after reaching out to @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz in direct message he immediately chose to accuse me of going off the rails for insight into sopuli.xyz

edit4 I have not received a response from anyone at sopuli.xyz still about Burstar or the situation, I am considering leaving this instance.

https://sopuli.xyz/modlog/23366

To be clear, I despise people who are antisemitic, I can't stand it not only is it an evil ideology it reduces complex problems to "blame the jews!" which I think is stupid as hell on top of being hateful as hell. Judge people for their actions not the religions they warp into justification for their actions.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/49833883

**How do these recent comments linked below violate the rule "Rule 3: No Nazis, QAnon or similar"?

No Nazis, QAnon or similar

Locked Post Trump Rejects Zelenskyy’s Patriot Request as Ukraine’s Air Defenses Missed All 28 Russian Missiles

Removed Comment > Don't try to pretend Iran doesn't deserve it. Cool so you know that collective punishment is a war crime right? You do understand you just admitted to supporting that casually without realizing that normal people do not think this way right? You aren't supposed to give the game away that easy lol.... What the actual fuck.... by supersquirrel reason: r3

Removed Comment So would you consider continually assassinating the Iranians we are trying to make a peace deal with while also repeatedly using peace making processes as bad faith covers for massive bombing campaigns meant to humiliate leadership in Iran that chooses foolishly to respond in good faith to the peace negotiation process... something we just had to do because we are stuck in a war? What a laughable argument. What are you on about? The US and Israel started BOTH recent outbreaks of war against Iran, that is what the facts are. by supersquirrel reason: R3

I demand a specific answer, as well as a reason as mods you chose to silence this discussion instead of weigh in on it. This is an issue DIRECTLY relevant to Ukraine and NOTHING of my criticism of Israel and the US has anything to do with being a Nazi or being antisemitic, I am deeply disappointed in this community.

I take this seriously, I do not like being labelled a Nazi and if you are going to throw that around back up your assertions or stop lazily participating in a narrative of silence around these topics.

https://sopuli.xyz/modlog/23366

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[–] hauke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just searched for your username, supersquirrel , because I missed your posts on Ukraine. Then I realized that your question post, asking why the previous post had been removed, was removed too... Then I found this here.

I hate the intolerance that I have seen before by a moderator on Mastodon, too, against an active poster. I think it is damaging the fediverse and of course productive democratic exchange. But it seems to lie in the nature of the fediverse, as s number of users commented. :(

Anyway, supersquirrel, I really want to get my daily dose of updates from Ukraine. Is there another place where you will post your interesting information? I would be very happy not to have to go back to reddit!

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Thank you so much for the kind words!

I feel very passionately about Ukraine and will return to posting regularly about it, but probably not on the sopuli.xyz Ukraine instance.

Nobody really bothered to address my concerns, @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz reached out to me personally and the second I pushed back on their framing they cut off communication.

I received no response from @Burstar@sopuli.xyz for their moderation actions.

I have received lots of little messages saying that people at sopuli.xyz like me but the lack of meaningful reaction to a mod silencing criticism of Israel quite blatantly and repeatedly from myself and others is alarming at this juncture in world history.

I don't know how to feel other than kind of disconnected, it is important to me to keep posting updates about the Ukraine War, it doesn't stop for my feelings but I just think it is so damn frustrating and indicative how the sopuli.xyz moderation team treated me with oven mitts from 1000 miles away while likely coddling the Zionist? mod who can't handle anyone questioning whether Israel has actually behaved as an ally to Ukraine.

Are their personal issues are too tied up in the politics of this for them to see this lucidly? What makes me upset is that the rest of sopuli.xyz just kind of fell silent about it and made me feel like I was the problem.

Ukraine has no missile interceptors, and there is no end to the shortage of them in sight now. THE ONLY REASON FOR THIS are the choices Netanyahu/Israel and Trump/US made to launch the Iran War when they did and they were told repeatedly by advisors that this would be the inevitable result. I cannot emphasize this enough.

I was banned for responding to someone's comments about Israel too, it wasn't even like I brought Israel into the conversation, I just challenged the axiomatic assumption the person was making about Israel being Ukraine's ally and that was enough to have my comments removed and be banned.