this post was submitted on 28 Feb 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.
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Yeah, that's often the case with many of the people banned from blahaj for hate-speech, gatekeeping, or thinly veiled transphobia. They'd try and have people believe blahaj is an evil cult, and not that they were being assholes, which is what most of them were doing. A short peruse of their history and modlogs often shows it very clearly and the person you replied to is no exception.
Quite frankly, I don't even understand why some people are so upset about potential trolls abusing neopronouns. Like, who cares? If I suspect someone is a troll, I will choose to block them or just not interact with them.
Obvious trolls are probably blocked on blahaj.zone regardless. I'm fairly certain if I were to put "(jpavhovwhovsjbjpwvoj/bjevhpvwiyvhosvp)" in my name as pronouns I'd be banned rather quickly.
Neopronouns are strange to me as well but who am I to judge? It doesn't affect me and there are more important things to be outraged about in this world. Like people typing in all lower caps.
yep this is based and level headed thank you