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power tripping admin thinks hosting their own instance grants them immunity. embarrassing!
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this post was submitted on 01 Jan 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.
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- 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.
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Can someone elaborate more on what's going on? Did this person actually think that if you posted to a community on a different instance, that they couldn't remove the contents?
Maybe? The modlog shows they've also been banned from that community.
Given they're running their own instance, I'm sure they'll be back with a new account, so maybe the admins will block or defederate that instance.
Tiny angry king on a tiny angry little hill LMAO
When you get reported it goes to the mods of the community, the admins of that server, and the admins of your server. Or so I'm led to believe.
Perhaps someone intended to report them to that community and didn't know their admins would get it too.
this is correct.
i know some have suggested a feature change to Lemmy to allow us to chose to which party(s) the reports go to, but in the meantime the limitation precipitates a sort of gentleman’s agreement among admins (or at least admins that want to remain federated) not to abuse the reports that are clearly not for them.
yes, or at least didn’t care about the consequences of abusing admin responsibility and flaunting federation privileges.