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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:

  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.

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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.

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[–] ToastedCoconuts@piefed.blahaj.zone 208 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I don't understand how Patrick hiding a DDOS attack in his "goodbye" message isn't grounds for banning his alts on that server according to their policy. It literally is breaking the law in many countries

Edit: for that matter, .world should consider the same for his alts there

[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

How many do you think he's got? I swear I just found one called Eristalis created a day ago lol

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 47 points 1 month ago

James R Kirk - he was posting like an impartial observer on Fediverse vs Disinformation @db0 in a breakdown of the ban list thread. Things like:

The dev posted a response in c/Tesseract but you're mostly correct. They wanted to make it easier for like minded future admins to be able to spin up a Lemmy instance without having to know all of the lore.

Then when people called him out he started becoming a frothing troll.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the dude saying how everyone who blew up over the shitlist was doing illegal shit is one too

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doing illegal shit is a requirement for being a human rights activist in the USA today.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago

always has been

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

looks like cardboardcruncher6400 is another, He's basically manifestoing all over the shitpost thread

[–] ToastedCoconuts@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm losing count of his sock puppets at this point

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

there's another one asking "reasonable" questions and claiming noscript blocks db0 (and intimating it's therefore suss)

[–] ToastedCoconuts@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just coming back to confirm that's an AP account lol

[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

That's fucking hilarious, I called that shit within his first three comments on it

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I just think it's hilarious that instead of "saving" the fediverse they fractured it. Whiney bitches love to break shit then whine about it being broken.

[–] ProbablyUnwise@anarchist.nexus 75 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I would say they've brought the fediverse together like never before. I don't think this many people have agreed on a single thing in the history of fedi.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agreed.

It showed the broad spirit of the users, and that the fundamental nature of the federation design model... works literally exactly as it was intended to.

Sure, you can be the petty tyrant of your own fiefdom.

But no one rules everything, and anyone, at a comparatively low actual cost of entry, can make their own fiefdom, if they want to.

Maybe we should all be thanking nutomic and Dessalines, regardless of any specific disagreements any of us may have with them, for doing the fundamental conceptual and coding work.

Lemmy's origin story:

https://lemmy.eus/post/5460

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or, frankly, because of the disagreements. Whatever bullshit you can say they pulled, at least it wasn't, yknow, this.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Absolutely, well said.

I would definitely agree. Despite our differences, we all have one thing in common. We don't like being deceived by those who build the frontends we use. We trust our credentials to these people and trust they aren't going to screw us over. He violated that trust and people are right to be pissed about it.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

It's true, we usually spend most of our time hating eachother for not being the right kind of leftist. This has been a united front as far as I've seen.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Hell, it's the first time I've seen everyone open to reasonable discussions of ideas like his in a long time. By setting up a boundary that everyone vocally agrees is unacceptable suddenly there's a sense of trust that people aren't all rushing towards it.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Can't have your little kingdom when it's not fractured from the whole.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just think it’s hilarious that instead of “saving” the fediverse they fractured it.

I dunno. The fediverse seems mostly united against admiralpatrick and his alts.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 month ago

Nah they sadly have world to fall back on along with startrek.website

[–] yoru77@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago

This whole situation is bizzare

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Lemmy.world isn't going to take action against his account. They already don't take actions against the no-content sockpuppet accounts and extremist trolls who use their instance. They should take action against them, they likely won't though.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world isn’t going to take action against his account.

Of course not. He's basically jordanlund if he knew how to code.

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Maybe he is Jordanlund, it's certainly possible. I don't think one could meaningfully prove otherwise.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you really think jordanlund would be able to stay away from this thread if it were him?

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Who's to say he hasn't? Using alts is a form of engagement. Using his main account risks being banned for it in a lot of places, and that stops him from doing that smug confrontation thing he likes to do.