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.

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.

YTPB 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.

Relevant comms

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Sealioning is when your response is too hard to counter so you get help from a mod (piefed-media.nullspace.lol)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by null@piefed.nullspace.lol to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Argument about why an instance doesn't want to federate with another instance that's devoted to political trolling. Apparently that kind of behavior is simply a core tenet of the belief system, and to criticize it is to reject the whole ideology.

Modlog: https://lemmy.ml/modlog?userId=22989130

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[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world -4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I agree with you and think he's absolutely sincere. You either put that much energy into something because it's passion or a paycheck, and I don't think there's any indication that they're a bad actor, they are a dyed in the wool communist who's been here since the beginning. They might work or be attached to an official org or something, but I don't think that enters into to it at all except to say they are very educated. Also as you noted, whip fucking smart!

But that has created the situation I refer to as an argument trap. Because arguments with Cowbee are not productive because they are not moving them in any direction except not liking you and using meta arguments to dismantle any serious points you make, and to dismantle any influence you may have.

It's fun to watch and anyone who argues with them will eventually be reduced to a series of deep left buzzwords. By the end it's become a meta argument that doesn't even resemble anything approaching the original point. It was simply a waste of time and energy.

But it's fun to watch, by Jobe!

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social -3 points 5 days ago

You either put that much energy into something because it’s passion or a paycheck

Yeah. Well, kind of. One of the hallmarks of the people I think are getting a paycheck for it is that they don't really seem to give a shit whether the stuff they are saying makes sense or is believable. They might go back and forth for a long time, but they don't get invested in it, it's just "here's why we all think Kamala Harris is an asshole, obviously" and then on to the next comment.

But it’s fun to watch, by Jobe!

Eh. This particular argument caused me to flee in alarm within the first few comments.

It did actually inspire me to look up whether a massive argument I had with one of the lemmy.ml people some time ago was Cowbee or not (if it had been, it would have been a key insight as to what made him tick). Alas, it was not. Sometimes I enjoy talking with these people (I think I actually have had some extended talks with Cowbee about Communism, which were fine), but this one I think both people were focused so much on minutiae that it quickly became unbearable.