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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.
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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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- Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
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- 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.
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- 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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For as much as you love this uniquely annoying, disruptive pattern of replying to the same comment via multiple comments, it's funny that one of them wasn't mentioning the elephant in the room.
Namely that the thread you were talking about, deliberately taking completely out of context, and consicuously not linking to is about as clear-cut a "YDI" response as one usually seems to get on YPTB – with the OP spending the entire thread being so insufferable that everyone understands why they deserved it.
I'm glad you like me sharing the link, because apparently unlike you, I like sharing links to provide context for what I'm talking about.
your insinuation that I deliberately withheld information is wrong. I just didn't want to spend any more time on it. you haven't provided such a link either. are you deliberately misrepresenting the post and hiding the truth??
Sorry, did you miss the part where I said, verbatim: "Here's the thread I was "recently featured" in." Or is this more of your Trumpian "never play defense" pathological lying where you assume that if you just double down forever, you can't ever be wrong?
yes
Okay, honestly fair. Absolute respect for that. I made a worse oversight the other day and attacked someone who was doing nothing wrong because of it.
I'm cool with just stopping this argument here for right now.