this post was submitted on 25 Mar 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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- 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).
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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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But how is it on a blog site? I still don't understand the last leap of logic in your chain of thought. When confronted, you reiterate that it is a blog, even though you know it is an article from a reputable news organisation, then you say but it's on a blog site, when it is not, then you loop back. It's not a blog, not on a blog site, it's domain is not a blog domain. What makes it a blog exactly?
A blog site is a host of personal opinion. It's an online diary. Some of it is interesting and useful, most of it is not, none of it is journalism or news.
If a journalist is sharing space with blogs, we aren't going to allow any of it, because we aren't going through every fucking author going "is this one valid? What about this guy talking about how their dog just took a dump? How about this guy convinced robots are stealing his luggage?"
Same reason we don't allow bullshit social media like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc.
There's too much content to say what's valid for the community and what's not.
Does the New York Times have a Twitter account? Sure. Do we allow it? No, because fuck you Twitter. Does the Washington Post have a Facebook account? Sure. Do we allow it? No, because fucking Facebook.
The same goes for Substack, Blogger, Blogsite, etc. We don't care who is doing the writing. It's not a valid source.
Yeah, I get that point and agree totally. But the question is that this one, that is validated. That has been gone through. That you obviously have now the choice and loop back again. Why in his case do you loop back to "it is a blog" when you know now it isn't? Then when asked swap back to argument 1?
Because, as stated now for the zillionth time, we are't going to go through each account hosted on a blog site picking winners and losers.
I just had this discussion in PMs... AGAIN... over a removed Twitter post.
"But, but... MY link is legitimate!"
Yeah, don't care. We don't allow Twitter links, find a DIFFERENT link or GTFO.
I get it, I really do. I'm personally embroiled in the whole Myanmar earthquake thing, I've been sent a bunch of heartbreaking content from people I know over there.
I'm not posting it because the sources are all Facebook (which is HUGE over there), YouTube, and individual images sent to me by people on the ground, people I know personally (family of my daughter in law.)
It's FINE to put in a comment, we don't allow it as a top level post.
Photos from Naypyidaw:
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Thanks! So far, everyone in her family is safe. One of her brothers was in Bangkok when it happened and nobody could reach him for a day, and that was scary, but he's fine and back home.
Their family home was damaged, as was her dad's office, but they were all incredibly lucky!