this post was submitted on 15 Mar 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.
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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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YDI. The other comments probably just got swept up in it, it happens, but that first that triggered mod action is def over the line
There's no need to get angry like that, or at least type it out, fight the tankies with logic, reasoning and evidence not a bunch of expletives and slurs
You can say fuck on the internet. You absolutely should call Tankie scum at every opportunity.
Tankies don't use logic, trying to reason with those intolerants is just turtles all the way down. Anybody who wants to foster healthy community on Lemmy should promote open hostility towards Tankies
Yes, but you're not being judged just because you used it but how
No, you shouldn't, "Tankie" by itself targets their ideology and their actions (Pushing misinfo, propaganda etc) by adding "scum" into it or other slurs you shift that target from ideologies and behavior to the actual person. Not cool. For the most part, they're just people being used as tools by the real evil people pulling the strings.
That's fine, remember, your arguments are public so aren't just about convincing a tankie, but any potential observers as well
No. Absolutely not. They can have their community, we should be promoting defederation, boycotting and general awareness.
You know I'm pretty anti-tankie around here, and even I'm saying, chill out open hostility does nothing but anger everyone.
All Tankies are scum
Your actions today are painting a different picture.
This sort of behavior is why YDI
Why are you always defending Tankies? People have told me you're definitely not a Tankie, they've vouched for you and this instance, but in every interaction I just see you defending the people currently leading for most destructive and violent collection on the planet.
I didn't defend tankies? What the fuck are you on about, mate?
You literally just told me that insulting Tankies should be a bannable offense.
That's not what I said. Work on your reading comprehension.
I love it when they come in with screenshots of them using the vote button incorrectly.
They also seemingly like spreading incorrect information too which is telling :eyes_roll: and I thought I'd give their account a skim since their comment smelt funny
https://lemdro.id/comment/15091480
Nothing to do with "video players" and pulling shit out of their arse is hilarious
Hah whatever dude, you're doing more harm than good flying off the handle like that. It just gives them something to point to when they bring up their "we're just being bullied :'(" arguments
When Tankies are being bullied all is well with the universe.
Comparatively we don't give empathy to Nazis, we shouldn't give any to Tankies either.