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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  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
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These comment removals don't appear on the modlog but the likely culprit comment is

"It fucking matters that the lemmy main code contributors are Tankie scum. The less power they exert over the whole, the better."

At a 3 to 2 score, but also includes such heinous comments as

"You can just browse lemmy in a mobile browser like waterfox just fine...

Why would anybody want to install unnecessary third party apps? That sounds awful."

and

"I havent used many instances but I've never used one which didn't have a mobile site."

The Modlog does mention the ban with the following reason:

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[–] diplodocus 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay keep wasting the mods’ volunteer time and catching bans then. By now some of them probably recognize your name and have little patience for you.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not going to talk about your blatant lie?

[–] diplodocus 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Just because you don’t think the insult was homophobic doesn’t mean it wasn’t.

Edit to add: Oh, I see. I was conflating this comment of yours in !progressivepolitics@lemmy.world which was removed comment a few hours before with your ban from !fediverse@lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/comment/15673050

Still a homophobic insult, just not the mod action in question here.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Tankies are known for supporting countries that have a long ongoing history where they jailed or executed people for their sexual orientation. Hostility to Tankies may as well be an advocacy for LGBT rights.

Edit: You don't have to be gay to suck Dictator Cock.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You don’t advocate for LGBT rights by using LGBT sexuality as an insult.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not wrong to perform fellatio, but to perform fellatio for a dictator is definitely lowering yourself to subhuman levels. The dictator doesn't love you, the dictator will not return the favors.