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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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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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No, they didn’t. DB0 should have just removed the comments that the mod was making that was stirring the pot.
This could have been handled in private. But instead, the community mod was involved the comments- arguing politics. They even admitted as much that they were off topic when I tried to stop it.
Go ahead and check to see if their comets were removed.
They weren’t.
Mine were.
Note how the mod stoked the fire, and the admin came in to lock it down.
Disagreed, locking is the correct call, people are going to just keep coming to continue the argument otherwise or rehash removed topics (you're guilty of that one). @Db0@dbzer0.com probably should've banned some of those people but locking stops the arguments dead in their tracks, so is a valid solution to stop the arguments.
I guess the mod is exempt from it all though? Because they were there stirring the pot and didn’t get a single comment removed.
Bias is fine as it’s impossible to not be at times, but pretending to run a community as “anarchistic” while showing a clear bias and pretending to be neutral is bad faith in my book.