this post was submitted on 05 Apr 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:

  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Rules


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.


Relevant comms

founded 8 months ago
MODERATORS
 

Mod Carrotcypher links to their own personal blog and then pins their own post.
carrotcypher linking to themself

Opsec101's homepage, made by Carrotcypher:
the opsec101 homepage

And here's a look at rule 3!
rule title: "DON'T ENGAGE IN SELF-PROMOTION."

Call me picky, but I think the moderators should follow the rules they write and enforce.

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[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

~~It's important to remember that r/piracy was taken over by Reddit during the API debacle. The top moderators were removed and replaced by those chosen by Reddit admins. "Corporate-backed piracy" is an oxymoron.~~

Misread it, this is r/privacy. My bad. But also, r/privacy is even worse. PTB

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is privacy, not piracy

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Whoops, you're right, misread it. r/privacy is a whole other can of fucked up worms, such as propaganda and Nazism at the cost of actual privacy discussion.

Bail on the place, as well as any other place where Carrotcypher is involved, including FOSStodon.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Their privacy to pirate your content maybe.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

I always preferred PrivacyGuides. Looking forward to the activitypub integration with their other community

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 12 points 3 days ago

It has been compromised since at least 2-3 years ago.

We got decent communities on here

Here is one on a smaller server

!privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] brot@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Not sure here - moderators are handled really dirty by Reddit and I can totally understand that they are using what they have to self promote. And I can totally understand that they also don't want to allow everybody to spam their sub.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Seems like sub has been infiltrated by the people from those industry, other subs have been taken over by right wingers or cops and allows heavy astroturfing

[–] brot@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

ok, that is something else. I didn't knew that

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

One does not have to do volunteer work when they're being "handled dirty". They can just leave.