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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.
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Why are you talking to me about this? Pretty much every time it comes up, I ask people for examples, and then I go and look at them. I actually have a bookmark saved right now for a good example of FS being kind of a jerk that I found all on my own and thought might be relevant, at some point. Why did you come back to sort of hassle me about this on a week-old topic?
Couldn't be because you created a thread to ask everyone what they thought about it. If you don't want to talk about it, don't come to my home instance and ask what I think about it. You don't get to shut down discussion when you don't feel comfortable with where it's going.
Oh, no, you're fine to ask questions or talk with me, I was just wondering what the impetus was for asking about it almost two weeks after I created a thread to ask everyone what they thought about it.
I'm not upset at the questioning. But also at the same time, I don't have the preconceived notion and am indeed extremely interested in the many documented instances blah blah, so I'm not sure where the conversation could potentially even go from here. You're welcome to continue discussion, you don't need to feel like you're being shut down just because I don't feel like going back and forth about it.
I wasn't aware the discussion had a time limit on it. A quick search through this community reveals thread upon thread of receipts, with FlyingSquid being voted the PTB nearly every time. You might not agree with that, but you're one person against a very many. Of course, I don't dislike FlyinSquid myself just because he's a shit mod, I dislike him mostly because he's a shit person who justifies genocide and immediately cries antisemitic whenever he's questioned about his views. He was not just a horrible mod, he's also intellectually and morally bankrupt, and the Fediverse was improved by him finally being removed from power. You supporting someone like that doesn't really say much about your own character, but it's obviously up to you how you want to be remembered.
In the end though, it really doesn't matter whether you're a PTB yourself for what you did, does it? Until this thread, I never even paid attention to what your instance was, let alone realized you were the admin, and I don't believe I've ever actually seen anything from your little kingdom show up on the front page of db0. If you hadn't made this thread, it's likely nobody would have even noticed, let alone cared. So while others might say you're the PTB, I would instead say IDM, or "it doesn't matter". The actions of of admin for a small instance don't have any impact on the Fediverse at large, so don't sweat it. Even if you were tossing out instance permabans left and right, there's not going to be a disruption for anyone.
You must have mistaken me for someone who loves getting in long pointless arguments. Actually never mind! I do. It's the best. At least for short little bursts of time, I guess I enjoy it, probably more than I should.
I think your assessment is great, Mr. AI. I couldn't have said it better myself.
I don't know what's more embarrassing, that you pretended to ask an AI that, and then wrote it out in-character, or that you thought it was particularly clever.
I promise you, I was not pretending. You can try the experiment for yourself if you like.
I did bias it a little bit to the kind of answer I wanted, by asking the question in terms of "hinged" versus "unhinged" instead of along some other axis. If you try the experiment yourself, you might want to see if you can bias it some other way by asking a different question.
I'm satisfied that not much more can come of us saying our opinions at one another. Cheers and have a nice evening.