PTB
Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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.
- 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.
Relevant comms
if [[ instance == "lemmy.world" ]] && [[ topic == "Palestine" ]]; then echo "PTB"; fi
Serious now, PTB.
Since the existence of the state of Israel causes violence in the Levant, anyone defending the "survival" of that ethnostate is promoting violence. And yet you don't see LW mods removing comments defending it - why?
Oh geez, it gets even worse.
According to the mod @jordanlund@lemmy.world, even just advocating an end to genocide is worthy of a ban. Like, when you're really specific and say you're talking about ending institutions that are doing genocide rather than people, that gets you a ban.
And so is calling out a person who is advocating for genocide by their choice to silence anti-genocide views. (Officially, my ban was for being mean, but let's be honest, the real reason is that they felt called out over their support for genocide.)
Is !world@quokk.au still around?
Seems to be. It's certainly where I'd prefer to post, although it's not clear to me what its intent is. What makes "world" news? Non-American? That's my assumption for the LW one. But on quokk.au is it non-Australian?
Regardless, where I choose to post doesn't help when I'm commenting on another post. Which is most often the case in any world news Community.
Lemkin's original definition of genocide includes just destroying everythibg a culture is, including its methods of social reproduction so that it cannot continue, whether a single drop of blood is spilled or not.
So with a broad definition, ending the genocide would be genocide. Thinking about the implications of that is antisemitic.
You misunderstand.
@DeathToTheIDF@lemmings.world is an alt account of a banned user, formerly named AntiYank
They create accounts every few days and post trollish stuff.
I'm surprised they're still around. That's some dedication for a platform they say they despise
Some users appear to be entirely sustained on hating the platform and/or its devs. As long as it exists they have a mission, possibly from god.
Ok, what about the main complaint under discussion? That apparently it's not allowed to call for the Palestinians to fight back against the IDF?
Regardless. The mod is removing anybody comment about death to the idf. The occupation force that is currently committing a genocide and that international law give Palestinians the right to self defense against them
I wasn't speaking to that, as I don't mod that community. I can only speak to AntiYank
Poor world news mods can’t catch a break today. PTB