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this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
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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.
- 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
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I don't think anyone's gonna click all those links, matey.
edit: please check the posting guidelines in the sidebar
I could have embedded the screenshots instead I suppose, but honestly I struggle to remember how to do that on fedi sites because I don't do it very often.
I do have one post among the comments that were deleted, but I wanted to give a more zoomed-out overview of the goings-on rather than focusing on my own comment. If that's not close enough to the desired format, then my bad... If that's not what you're referring to, though, I wouldn't mind more specifics?
Unruffled is probably referring to the rules which forbid the deobfuscating of mod names here to prevent harassment.
quick reminder regarding the embedding: the format is the same as linking stuff, but with an leading exclamation mark:
Most clients allow me one to simple copy paste the image and it will be re-uploaded to lemmy
As far as I can tell, Fedia allows me to directly upload one image from the filesystem (not the clipboard) when submitting a new thread. I confess I was too lazy to open Paint and stitch together all the mod log images. 😔
Ah yes I don't know about the kbin/piefed stuff. Was talking about lemmy specifically.
No worries! All our different platforms are doing their best! 😎
🤔 Deobfuscating the mod name would require me to be an instance admin, right? My screenshots were taken directly from my instance's mod log. I took that to mean the moderation actions were done publicly (not set to anonymous by the moderator). Since the rule didn't say "Always censor mod names" I thought I was doing things right. I suppose it's possible there is an inconsistency in how Fedia displays the mod log, but I do see anonymous mod actions in there from time to time, so I don't think it's a case of Fedia not respecting the anonymity settings...
Anyway, I'll go back and edit the images in the original post to use the embed format for convenience. (They show up as expandos here regardless.)