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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.
YPTB 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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a basis point is a finance unit for 1/100th of a percent, you could just drop the 'basis' and your sentence would make sense.
really funny that you started your whole diatribe about her being confused by botching your own word usage.
I don't really care about butchering the english language, so don't come at me. usually I treat it with the respect it deserves, which is none. the irony, however, was excellent
I got banned from 27 communities on quokk.au for something which is not in their rules, because they were simply justifying retaliation against me for calling the OP out.
I don't think this is a principled complaint that you have.
Stop acting like you're innocent.
They banned you for brigading after you posted links on hexbear directing users to a post you had made about OP.
She supports left unity when anarchists are attacked but not when they defend from AuthComs. She always defends them but not us.
Edit: "I defend anarchists, I just mod a place that hates them and defend Hexbear and Dengists and everyone but anyone more individualist than Lenin. And calling out user actions is sexist."
I'm not "feeling attacked", I'm calling out bad faith from someone who always defends the aggressor.
Nowhere did I say that, however I did think that one of OP's thread title was misogynist, and he banned me for saying that. He also said it was homophobic to even raise the issue, but again you don't care when it's your friends doing it.
I literally do anarchist organizing IRL, I am an anarchist. Anarchism isn't being in the 'right' online clique, as important as that clearly is to you.
I call out people for being sectarian against anarchists. It's literally in the rules one of the comms I mod. I'm not going to defend someone that's being shitty just because they're an anarchist.
I try to report users being ableist when I see it regardless of who it is.
if you're feeling attacked because I called out one of your friends for something I saw as misogynistic, maybe that says more about you than you intended.
please direct me to where anything about 'brigading' is mentioned in their rules. it's vibes based bullshit, they banned me because I made a post about their mod acting like an asshole and they went looking for an excuse.
they site banned me for a singular link in a comment on a thread, not even to their site. meanwhile the OP is acting like a martyr for getting a singular comm ban
you moderate for them though, so I can see why you would be inclined to defend their behavior
There aren't any rules, and you shouldn't need to be told not to brigade.
You're from .ML with a personal vendetta, so I can see why you would be inclined to slander them.
No rules except the ones you make up to get rid of people you don't like.
not beating the vibes based moderation allegations with that.
I'm literally the only person to get banned from quokk.au and it's a rule essentially made up on the spot.
is cross-posting brigading now?
the person I was originally replying to seemed pretty outraged at the idea of decisions being made arbitrarily like that- but I'm sure if you guys do it it's fine.
I don't think it's reasonable to say I have a personal vendetta, I'm just bringing this up because the OP is acting like getting banned from one comm for acting like a toxic asshole is actually dictatorial mods banning someone arbitrarily.