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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.

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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Account banned on lemmy.ml/c/communism for 'rule 4' - in a community with no rules, that I've never posted in. (quokk.au)

submitted 2 months ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards

https://lemmy.ml/u/davel

2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

Community Ban

3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).

4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).

(I have not posted there)

Likewise the community has no rules listed, so I'm not sure how I've broken rule 4

Davel is probably going to try to claim me downvoting a post or comment of his that popped up on my feed or something as me breaking the entire instances rule 4 (no spam?) - which is why I need to be banned only from one community I don't engage in.

Lemmy.ml admin Davel has been rage downvoting my posts a lot lately, even going so far as to downvote me telling real legitimate antisemites to 'fuck off'.

Even CowBee had the decency to admit they were in the wrong and change their ragevote to an upvote.

Davel however seems to especially thinskinned even for the typical .ML'er and would rather double down and engage in poorly disguised retaliation bans for criticisms of a political ideology.

This thought terminating behaviour on display by one of the admins of such a reputable and outstanding instance as Lemmy.ml was not at all warranted and I hereby call on the leadership at lemmy.ML to unban me so that I may continue to not post in their community.

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[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

How are you viewing voting activity? Asking for a friend.

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

I get that some communities want to curate their content and contributors, but pre-emptive bans and such aren't going to be an effective method. It's usually net counter-productive, as we see playing out here.

Most people won't understand, care, or even notice. The few that do tend to take it as a provocation than a lesson, anyway.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fuck, I'm late to the party.

That's not "thought terminating behavior," I've seen you use that phrase a few times now. You're conflating thought terminating clichés with thought-stopping, but neither apply here. A TTC is like "let's not rock the boat," something that discourages going any deeper into a subject. Thought-stopping is self-imposed, a reflex to avoid destabilizing your epistemological jenga of beliefs when a challenging realization come along.

In this case it's more like someone's hurling shit into the boat and they've set up an umbrulla. You're aggro as hell whenever you see an .ml, so they banned you for the same reason instances pre-emptively block each other, for the same reason .blahaj bans people with transphobic comments.

That's not thought terminating, that's called a boundary, and it's healthy.

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