this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2024
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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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"We have to be able to talk about it" is absolutely the core problem. Even if a policy is and will always be 'just do it, or else,' we need the ability follow 'okay' with 'but what the fuck?'
If you are dictating how I act, even if it's just how I act toward you - I have concerns. You are involving me in your thing, and my participation is not always yours to demand.
Can someone declare they are only addressed in iambic pentameter? Or alternating caps? Or without vowels? One could scoff that those aren't pronouns, and I would say that neither is a fucking lizard. For a word to have meaning, there must be things it does not include. There is always a line.
When the admin genuinely insists 'you will call that person an attack helicopter, or else,' then it's not beyond the pale to ask what happens when someone speaks normally to a self-identified merry little elf who only answers riddles. If the response is 'I am in bangs but not guts, or else,' that is drawing the line well beyond what most decent people will participate in. If they can't safely tell you why - neither you nor they can learn anything.