this post was submitted on 03 Apr 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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The point is that the more walls of text there are, the less the focus is on the point of the C/.
Every person that starts pounding their pulpit here makes it harder to wade through the junk and get to discussion about mod actions. There's dozens of places to delve into the hot button topics, but there's really only two that function as a practical meeting ground for ongoing discussions about moderation and how it shapes lemmy. When there's a dozen off topic rambles about the secondary issue, it makes the community useless for its primary one.
And, for whatever fucking reason, instead of at least making the comments their own top level one, people seem to insist on clogging up my inbox with shit I'm not going to read because I already said I wasn't interacting with it here. So it's also annoying as fuck on a personal level. I genuinely wonder what the fuck people are thinking when they pull this shit. Someone says "I'm not going to engage in that subject", but they're going to pound the fuck out of that subject anyway. After a certain point, it's just rude.
Stay the fuck on topic. It's that easy.
Wow you seem to have a personal level axe to grind with the way forums like Lemmy work. I'm gonna let you to it then. Get those kids off this lawn, grampa.
You don't wanna answer, don't answer. You don't wanna read, don't read. You don't wanna watch youtube videos, don't watch them. You don't want replies about a topic, don't express comments about that topic. You don't get to say, oh here's my opinion, here are my arguments, now nobody reply because i don't think it's appropriate to discuss it here. My brother in humanity, you started this whole discussion. Ain't no way I'm going to start a thread in Israel-Palestine or whatever and ping you to reply to these arguments, that's not how any of this works. A blog would perhaps be more appropriate if you desire that sort of engagement.