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.
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

!fediverselore@lemmy.ca

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MODERATORS

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Let's just move a whole community to a new instance without asking! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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edit: As I'm seeing a lot of worry about the impact this will/could have on the community, please be assured we have the same mod team, and will be holding the community to the same standards. the same things that were always allowed will continue to be allowed and the same things that got things removed before will continue to get things removed before. Lemmy.world admins have agreed to allow us to run our community on our terms. It is my pleasure to announce that effective immediately, we are transferring our community to Lemmy.world! This has been a few months in the making, so my entire mod team is already on board. FAQ: Why? That's a complicated question with a long answer! The primary difference is moderatorial and ideologial differences between my team and Ada's excellent team of admins. We are on good terms with Ada and her team, and have gotten her consent to do this. In addition to this, we have had ongoing issues with federation and moderation that has caused a subpar experience for many people on other instances. How does this work? Currently, as there is not an easy way to transfer an entire community (trust me, we checked), we are locking the community as mod-only, and moving our focus to the 196 on lemmy.world. For you guys, functionally nothing has changed. What about the posts? Well, we tried to transfer them, but there was no real way to do so without absolutely destroying lemmy.world's federation. For this reason, we are simply archiving this community as mod-only. Everything is staying up, you just won't be able to post new content. Comments are still enabled, so we will continue to check our modlogs for some time after the transfer has settled. As for the posts on lemmy.world's 196, we're leaving those up too. From this point onwards, all posts made to that community are beholden to the rules you are all used to, but anything pre-existing is getting grandfathered in.

IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, PLEASE PUT THEM IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS POST, AND I'LL DO MY BEST TO ANSWER THEM. Once again, here's the link to our new apartment of awesome. (universal: !196@lemmy.world)

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[–] moss@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hi there, It's me, the "power trippin'" mod. If anyone has any questions raised by this post, feel free to ask me and I'll do my best to answer.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Please unlock the Blahaj 196 comm and hand me moderatorship there. I get you have ideological differences but you don’t get to uproot an entire community over personal concerns.

I for one will not be joining the new one. This is an awful decision.

[–] moss@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, but no. the only person I would hand over control to is Ada. despite her policy being cited as a reason for our transition, she's an effective and consistent admin.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone Any chance you could hand over !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone to me or other mods?

If this goes through and the original community stays locked this is going to be a huge blow to the trans and queer community on Lemmy. :(

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not going to forcefully hijack 196, but if the community creates an alternative, I'm happy to let people know about it

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How long do you intend to allow a mod team that's (as of yesterday) deeply unpopular with their own community hold control over it and keep it locked down against the userbase's wishes?

Idk, would you maybe be willing to transfer control from the old mod team once the drama's died down a bit and they're no longer likely to perceive it as some sort of personal attack, or is this a more permanent decision?

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago

I am not going to take a community off of people who haven't broken any instance rules. Mods need to have confidence that the communities they run aren't going to be arbitrarily taken away from them because of an issue with an instance admin.

Unless I have the go-ahead from the staff, or unless they go dark long term and can't be contacted, I won't take it from them.

But, I did create a new post in the old community pointing people at a community made alternative, because I am also not going to force people to move.