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.

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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Apparently correcting someone who thinks you're from a different country than you actually are is being "offensive"? (aussie.zone)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Also offensive: pointing out that English speakers do not use the word "American" to refer to people from Latin America. The term in our language is universally used to refer to people from the country America.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

At least from my part my issue is the conflation of topographical and cultural/political/economical terms, where the former gets shoehorned into the later. Except that the former is fairly stable, and the later changes as some weird hairless chimps go back and forth.

For example, if I were to define "Central America" as a subcontinent (i.e. a topographical division of another topographical term), I don't think that putting the line between San Diego and Huston is sensible, because it's simply too contiguous. A better boundary would be between Coatzacoalcos and Unión Hidalgo - it splits the territory controlled by Mexico into two, but that's fine because it's a political boundary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

A better boundary would be between Coatzacoalcos and Unión Hidalgo

Yeah, that's more or less the southern limit of what I said could be sensible.