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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:
- 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.
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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PTB, it was probably because you keep triggering them in /c/leftymemes. Also lol at the hexbears in here calling YDI because their feelings are constantly being hurt.
EDIT: Omegalul at all the salt below.
Weird how they came in here suddenly.
B-but it was on all of our front pages! Ignore when we post it, link it, screenshot everyone, on our Slop community! Then talk about how much we hate them but don't do anything to stop getting angry about it on the same community!
Edit: it keeps happening, wow I'm so shocked.
Edit 2: on the front page of Slop, users from Hexbear commented and then went to the post being discussed https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/59235577?scrollToComments=true
"But we don't do that! Lemme just prove we do!"
Why did you link to a different post?
It was an example, I probably could have cleared this up
It's just weird saying that's the proof while saying they're the ones causing drama.
And it's still there while admitting it's incorrect
Thanks. I don't mean to rock the boat so often in your house, it's just where all the good comms are. Let me know if it's ever too much and I'll stop.
The downside to me explicitly choosing an instance that defeds hex and grad is that I don't get to see their impotent rage.
It's not worth it, but you can view this page from db0.
I normally agree with most of your sentiments, but not this one. if anything it seems the most sodium is coming from you and a couple other commenters in this thread. I hope you know I mean no disrespect.
I'm not one to defend hexbears. in fact most of the time I'm wary of anyone with that instance username, but in this case I think you're being a bit unfair.
I have OP labeled as a troublemaker as I've seen him behaving poorly in a few places. swearing at people and calling them tankies just for disagreeing with him, etc.
I don't think this is a left/right/hexbear/instance war- thing. it may just plainly be a "not nice" thing.
What, what did I do?
nothing, I just don't think many of the hex commenters in this thread are being all that salty (which nobody finds more surprising than myself). most seem to have found the thread through normal channels.
maybe there's stuff going on behind the scenes that I am not aware of, and I'm wrong. its entirely possible.
but just from an outsider perspective, it seems most are behaving fairly decently.
do they not realize, they are more like conservatives than they like to admit.
Lib memes. Garbage comm. Banned me for persistent thought crime. Good riddance.
It totally isn't because you're a serial ragebaiter or anything, or your foul attitude. No, it's totally because of thought crimes. LMAO
No no, they're the wrong ones for banning people who said things that break rules.