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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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You’re a 2 day old account with the same username as HC’s admin. Your only posts/comments on your account are in defense of that instance. I hardly consider you an unbiased or trustworthy source based on my experiences with that instance.
I am one of the admins of HC, using this account so everyone can see what I have to say.
I am telling you that you are welcome to start any kind of community on HC (within the generic site rules) and be welcomed the same as everyone else. You can moderate it however you wish. HC (the instance) does not take political sides.
Yeah.. You should take sites, though. (Take the one that cares about human rights)
At least you're saying it outright.
I suggest that most people in this thread are ultimately upset that we don't take their side. It's a bit ironic on a federated platform.
Lol maybe if "your" side didn't want to remove rights and freedoms, and install fascist dictators, you'd have a point
Yep. Lemmy doesn't like to admit that they are just as hateful and anti-diversity as the very people they say they are fighting against.
Plenty of Lemmy posters openly call for death of republicans. It's sickening.
If anyone does they are the minority of the users and are quickly moderated and banned.
But as you are well aware you can just make a new account in a new instance and keep trolling right Donald J Musk?
I'm aware that lots of Lemmy posters do that. But as you well know, anyone can just make a new account on a different instance and keep trolling—while falsely accusing others of trolling and ban-evading, even using that as an excuse to ban them from your communities, then showing up here to complain about being banned for made-up reasons. Right, Satans Maggoty Cum Fart?
Exactly! People should at least have the balls to remove me for shit I say and not some made-up reason. Not only that, but UM isn't even banned from Lemmy or most of the places I post to, he's on multiple instances, and he still posts all over the fucking place last time I checked. lmao
Are you saying those are my communities and my alts?
I'm saying that anyone can make a new account on Lemmy and keep trolling, and also use alt accounts to falsely accuse others of trolling and ban-evading.
Are you going to substantially change this comment after I’ve replied to it too?
If I feel I can clarify it more in order to avoid people misunderstanding, then maybe. Hence the "edit" button built into Lemmy. If you don't feel people should be allowed to edit comments, then you should write to the developers and see if they can incorporate that change into the next build.
What edit were you unhappy that I made?
I am curious tho why you didn't take a screenshot of your communities where you banned me for the exact same made-up reason. lmao
Ban evasion is against those instance’s TOSs.
It’s out of my hands.
But I wasn't, and still am not, evading any bans. That's my point from my original comment.
I’m not the one you need to convince that.
I never said you were.
I guess I’m confused then what are you saying?
If you don't understand in the context of this conversation, then I can't help you. Good luck!