this post was submitted on 26 Feb 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:
- 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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- 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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I'm not sure how that comment would be trolling, but I'm also not sure why you have a screen shot of a comment that's being written.
What was the original comment?
Here is a screenshot of the comment:
Theres a link to it in the description, it says removed by mod
Thats why its in edit mode. You can also see thats what it says in the modlog which shows what the comment was when it was removed by the mod.
Gotcha! It didn't show in the mod log for me. Not sure why.
Yeah, if that isn't PTB, it's definitely a clueless mod. I have no clue how someone could take that comment as violating any of the rules of that C/, much less as trolling.
This just weird. Most power trips, you can at least see why they're making the decision, even when it's shitty decision. This one looks utterly random and out of place.
Have you contacted the mods? It's strange enough that it might have been a mistake
Yeah it was a mistake, I initially though they were a troll because cultural Marxism is a common right wing talking point, and the fact that they were assuming or implying that me and OP were that or tankies simply for having it in the meme, clearly depicted in a negative manner I should add, it seemed less than good faith to say the least. Since it's clear they meant no ill intent, at least this time I have removed their ban.
Also as to why the removal doesn't show, that's a quirk of the Lemmy software and how it handles ban with content removal. It's a bug and it really needs to be fixed ASAP.