this post was submitted on 02 May 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.
- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
- 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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Blatantly ignoring disengage while also making absolutely unfounded and ridiculous claims. Absolutely shameful.
You think admins are infallible? You're only attacking me with these claims because I'm calling out someone who happens to be an admin. They are still human and, clearly, capable of doing wrong.
The whole point of this conversation is that it is wrong to assume everyone who simply shows a dislike in AI is a 'right-wing pro-capitalist liberal'. That is a judgement of a person's ideals and values based on a single metric that has no inherent connection to right-wing liberalism.
Now you have convinced me to block this entire instance because of this abhorrent behavior.
You are attempting to abuse the disengage rule. If you want to disengage, you're not supposed to also try to put the last word in. Just disengage without arguing further.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out, troll.
it's another user entirely. they didn't ignore disengage, they are commenting on it
Right. I misunderstood thinking that it meant that all people must respect the person's desire to be left out of it. It would probably be a better rule if that were the case. But, apparently rules don't really matter here anyways.
I also missed an important part of it:
It still doesn't excuse the disgusting behavior.
I simply wanted to be done, because there is zero respect shown here.
I'm also now frustrated that the instance block appears to not be working, since I got a notification for this reply.
I don't want to deal with any interactions with anything or anyone related to db0 after this appalling lack of any respect, utterly shameful accusations, and weird cult-like attitude towards an admin.
an instance block will stop db0 content from showing in your feed.. comments will still populate and users can still comment back to you.