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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.
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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Needs context of the community or at least of the "Rule 3".
I think from context we can gather that the removal was due to "advocating violence"
Which is a stupid rule.
True, I think most of us here can agree with that. This is just a joke post though- OP knows they broke a stupid rule in a funny way, and came here to have a laugh about it
All mods are bastards.
:(
An admin even. The worst of all.
Im sorry, it's true. You can still kill nazis and sometimes be barefoot for no reason while doing it, though.
I'm barefoot right now for no reason, so gonna mark this as 50% completed.
Lol, which community?
This one. See the "M" symbol?
Nope.
WebUI wins again. I love just using the browser.
I hate the browser. Zero options. My favorite part of Voyager is being able to hide Voting numbers so that I have no idea what anybody thinks. It’s beautiful.
Got that too:
WebUI is so nice. Tor browser for anonymity.
Light mode users posting screenshots makes me wish hell was a thing.
Like the cool kind with burning lakes. Not the boring kind with burning rivers.
In Eternity it's a little green shield icon.
You deserve to be beaten up.
(Not really, but I think we can all see why that rule exists in some form or other)
No. YOU is a rule breaker. THEM is not.
Billionaire should be killed. Nazis should be shot.
…. Is not breaking a rule.
The point is the direct attack on a user, that’s not cool.
Wow, rude to the nazis and billionaire ceo's of lemmy.
Ha ha. I don’t know if there are any billionaires here…
If you have a million dollars saved up or onherited or whatever, ill scowl at you and tell you that money should be put to good use, but i dont tjink you should get the wall for that alone.
A million dollars is a solidly nice house in a good place. Im against suburbs, the form of it, but the basic thing is something everyone deserves to have. A billion dollars is several neighborhoods of those. You literally canmot use that. Thats enough you vould buy a 2 million dollar house for every day of the year, sleep in each one only one day a year, and still have enough money for truly degenerate decadence every waking hour of your life until you die.
Imma be honest, you actually made being a billionaire sound cool.
That would kinda suck though. And also your brain would be so damaged by the money you wouldn't be able to enjoy anything.
I don't know, man. Drugs and women. All my money would go to that. I feel I could enjoy a lot of stuff with that much money. Not to mention I would buy a huge Lemmy instance just to annoy and shitpost. Welcome to UniversalMonkWorld baaaabbbyyy!!!!
You have higher morals than me. :)
You think so. You think you'd be able to enjoy that. Look at elon musk. You think it's happy?
I think he would be happy if he didn't care what people think. I need his money, with my personality tho. :)
Youbcant have that money without being like that. It's not allowed.
And even if you coukd; the money does some of it to you. Very very few people are able to stay human while getting wealthy. This has actually been studied.
Starting to become noticable at ~the 6 figure line in pre pandemic usd, not adnusted for regional COL, you start to lose your mind. Thats just when you see the first symptoms, mind you. I dont know where the 'there's no person left' line is.
I don't believe any of that. But I could be wrong. I only wish I could find out and then let ya know how I'm doing
Theres a body of research about the psychological effects of inequality The scientist whose name i remember is paul piff, for obvious reasons. So there's a starting point.
I'm immune. Let's test it. Let's raise a billion dollars for me
I am of the opinion that a single person should not be allowed to have more the a billion in wealth. Even that is absurdly high.
Yeah. Yeah i think the actual numbervis probBly far far lower, but i think if ypu have a billion dollars you do need to get the fucking wall.
Maybe. But i keep up on my cardio, so 🤷♀️
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"3. Be excellent to each other!"
Thread Link: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/19650117
Right, because Jeff Bezos is an active lemmy poster.
little did we know, dessalines was bezos all along
even worse, also satoshi nakomoto, and Q, all at the same time, rofl!
No, q is the mypillow guy.
No hes a .world mod.
I am not the OP but the rule 3 is be nice to each other. Not only it is too vague but i don't think Jeff Bezos
While I think the mod is just doing regular mod stuff; that is an overly broad rule to justify it.
I think one can argue that excellence to our fellow beings would be a revolution that burns all those houses down!
They need an anti insurrection rule on that community, to fit with their plain, vanilla, safe guidelines
They're far, far too cowardly to rephrase the rules or make new ones that are clear and explicit.
Just little tyrants, self-appointed thought police.
They can't acknowledge that though, because they're ptb