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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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- 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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What narrative has changed? In my Politcs Unfilitered subs, I've posted news articles from all political spectrums. I've never changed my attitude that people should make their own opinions, but I've always advocated third-party.
Used to be green party, then I found socialist party to better fit my world view. I've never hidden that fact or changed my narrative. If I saw an interesting news article, I'd post it, regardless of viewpoints. I didn't write the articles--remember when I would get comments removed for saying that? lol
Blaze, you have been here since the beginning. You KNOW that I have always said and done this.
So let's jump on the Lemmy logic bandwagon for a sec: If I've post conservative articles, I MUST be conservative--according to Lemmy. Ok, ok, so using that logic...
I post way more socialist articles (and even socialist biographies and socialist book reviews). So using the same logic as above, doesn't that mean I MUST be socialist? Same logic.
So how does that work? Am I conservative because I have posted conservative news articles or am I socialist because I have posted pro-socialist news articles or am I anarchist because I have posted pro-anarchist articles? Walk me through your logic here.
If I were really conservative, then why would I post literally hundreds of socialist and pro-union articles? It's not for money--no one reads Lemmy and why would trump pay me to post pro-socalist and pro-union stuff? It's not for love--as we can see in this thread, everyone hates me. It's not for self-promotion--I don't have anything to sell.