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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.
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- 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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Not even the mighty wren is immune from the tankie triad
Edit: Wait, it was on .world? Damn
Being called a zionist and/or a fascist on lemmy is basically a welcome greeting. I have genuinely never been anywhere online where there is this level of purity testing.
i've been called a liberal, zionist and a nazi in the same thread for saying platforming neo-nazis is fucked up even if they support palestine
It doesn’t have to make sense as long as you’re silenced and shamed xD
exactly. some people just want to throw out names
funnily, while people called me a liberal, zionist and a nazi in that thread, my only ban on the fediverse is for being a "tankie bootlicker". i have no idea what warranted that, i had never even heard of that random piefed community i got banned from before i accidentally checked my modlog and saw a ban.
it's the only punishment i've ever gotten on this platform and i have no idea what specifically caused it. that's in my moderation logs forever despite me taking very good care to not break any rules anywhere i go. oh well
I've checked both boxes now, plus I got called a lib in this thread. I'm three for three.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted when it's true, I've never been called any of these things before lemmy.
There should be an official lemmy bingo card for these kinds of things xD judt so we can take the piss a little bit.
People don't like the truth, that's why they downvote. And same! I have literally hung out in all kinds of corners of the internet since I was a teen and I likewise have never received this level of verbal abuse as I have on lemmy.
The brilliance of this set up is also that if you try and voice your annoyance with the way you have been treated, everybody just automatically assume that you indeed is x-label they put on you and everything you say to defend yourself is then assumed to be malicious and proof that you are in fact a bigot or a fascist or whatever.
It is equally frustrating and amusing.
I've been tempted to make one, but I'd need to field suggestions first. Being called a fascist would probably be the free space.