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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.
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.
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From where I'm sitting, this recording indicates a lot of effort and obsession put into something that lobs those exact two things in the form of an accusation. 8.5 minutes of repeating the same accusation in 27 different ways. "PugJesus is a loser obsessed with arguing." I mean that's exactly what you're doing here 100%: obsessively arguing and being petty. And then, funny enough, you imply most people wouldn't listen to a weird obsessively recorded message about them. Morbid curiosity if nothing else, don't even pretend you're immune to that.
The number of takes that must've involved... Is sad. Guessing you spent several hours on this even if you're a trained performer. And yes I realize I'm late to this post. I got curious about some of the users defending you after you got really worked up with me over a small correction I attempted to make to one of your comments.
The reason stated for him banning you, hypocrisy, is valid. If PJ had recorded and posted this shit, you'd be giddy to present it as proof that he's an obsessed loser.
Ps. I once argued with PugJesus about something and it left a bad taste in my mouth for sure, just because he seemed both very rigidly self righteous but he also seemed an overall a decent human and btw, he didn't ban me or get petty like you claim he always does. Honestly, showing human decency is too rare in fediverse arguments, so at least I have to give him that. Take for example my exchange with Stamets. He was pretty fucking rude off the bat in an uncalled for way and then tried to publicly shame me for my modlog.
I think if anything your conflict with PJ is that actually he's a lot like you except he tends not to go so nuclear as you do.
Lol