Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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.
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.
Relevant comms
Sealioning is such a loaded reddit moderation concept to begin with. If someone’s questioning isn’t worth your time, then don’t answer them: problem solved. We certainly don’t need big daddy moderator trying to divine into the hearts & minds of questioners to decide whether they feign ignorance or are actually stupid.
I am a human being who actually has autism which is why I type like this.
I unfortunately think we are entering an age of systems that are extremely hostile to any kind of neurodivergence, mostly because of layers and layers of bullshit automated categorization schemes based on measurable superficial differences that capture nothing deeper or essential about people.
Phrenology by another name dressed up in techbro nonsense, it is dangerous as fuck.
Ultimately they might be hostile towards all humans, not just the neurodivergent ones... In my opinion, tech is getting more and more difficult unless you 99% conform to the masses. I mean try to book a ticket, get an appointment, do paperwork or whatever needs apps these days if you're not using standard Google or Apple products. Or non-mainstream things like evade surveillance capitalism. All of that is annoying and requires me to jump through several hoops. Also business processes and everything gets more streamlined, automated... they do most things fairly well and efficiently. Just God beware you're in the 0.5% when things go properly wrong, and it's almost impossible to get ahold of a human with authorization to help with these rare, specific problems.
All of that is annoying and requires me to jump through several hoops.
Yes, that is true.
The important thing is that it is possible to use non surveillance capitalism software and services. The trade-off will always be that it is more work. This is because companies that harvest your information to sell can afford to spend a lot of money creating products that do everything for you.
They essentially say:
Don't worry about buying media and managing it on your own hardware, it's too hard to watch a youtube video and spend a few hours on something you enjoy... just install YouTube, Netflix or Spotify on your iPhone.
For the low, low price of your eternal technical dependency and loss of privacy we will manage your music and movie collection for you. Also, since there's nothing you can do about it now that you've been lulled into a state of technical incompetence, there will be a ~~$5~~ ~~$8~~ ~~$9.99~~ ~~$12~~ ~~$18~~ $19.99 subscription fee, HD sold separately.
The hoops thing is pretty bad too
Its .ml i wouldn't worry about it too much, sure there are many decent people there, but there are some people there with shit takes
I was banned from movies@hexbear.net - a place I didn't even know existed until I got banned from it.
But hey... tankies gonna tank.
https://hexbear.net/post/4334210/5846827
You made a comment there a year ago, and were subsequently site banned and therefore also banned from all comma you had interacted in.
YDI for constantly trolling and I would have banned you sooner if it was up to me.

In its original usage, 'Death to America' means 'end the power of America'. that is to say, 'death to U.S. domination and government policy,' not 'kill Americans.' It’s anti-imperial language, and if that continued under a 'socialist' president I would continue to say it.
Death to America.
I agree with the essence of your objections, but being misguided or misinformed is not in itself trolling, especially if the opportunity remains open for discussion and education.
