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this post was submitted on 20 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.
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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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- Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
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- 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.
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Wintermute_oregon was the main mod. There was some other guy who hasn't posted in over a year I think and a bot account so that left all mod decisions to wmo. This mod constantly would get into fights and ban the other person for winning, he had no patience for democratic viewpoints at all claiming they're the woke mind virus, asking questions could get you banned and the next day he'd comment about how nobody wants a real discussion. He was sensitive and actively wielding power. A true snowflake.
It's ironic the choice that cost him his position is a choice to do nothing, except that it was a very active nothing. He could handle reports faster than instance admins could see them so none of the reports were even seen by anybody but him and nobody complained too loud because Lemmy is liberal enough to leave the community nearly untouched save for a half dozen or so accounts spamming pro-Trump, anti-democrat articles with By Lines saying they were written by Tyler Durden (the narrator's imaginary friend in Fight Club). If you weren't praising Trump, you wouldn't be welcome back.
This was a shit show but now the mod has been taken out of town on a rail.
Thank you for the explanation, makes sense!
Wouldn't it be expected to have pro Trump (or as you say, anti Democrat) articles posted to a community explicitly created for discussion of conservative issues?
Zero hedge is an outlet known for right leaning economic policy, I don't place much trust in their content, but sometimes it's an interesting data point.
I'm not a Trump (or Republican) voter, but in the few times I clicked on a link posted in c/conservative I didn't see any actual conservative or right leaning comments. Just a deluge of down votes and negative commentary attempting to dunk on a seemingly missing conservative adversary.
In fact, and I'm not exaggerating here, I never see any comments right of center in my feed, in any community on Lemmy (I view through the lens of LW).
Maybe I have stuff blocked so I don't see right leaning user's content?