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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).
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- 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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You seem to know a lot about the whole story for a 20 days old account.
The two people who posted there in the last 24 hours?
https://lemmy.world/c/196?dataType=Post&sort=New
I have to uae burners because I don't want my main account banned from blahaj from them lurking here
I've talked with them and why they post there every day deapite the other communities existing, and that's what they said.
From what I can tell that whole community is there because of the christmas ban wave, most of them are trans people who said they never gatekept and respect Neopronouns.
They also said you specifically lurk these threads and resort to personal attacks against people who crtique blahaj, like pointing at account age instead of engaging in good faith with the people who got banned from blahaj admin abuse.
You still haven't told me who was that main poster who was banned.
Not sure who is the one not engaging in good faith in this conversation.
After asking if I could share they said they don't want their main account getting banned from blahaj in retaliation.
I'm sorry
But you said they were already banned back in December. I'm just asking for the banned account, it should publicly displayed in the modlog.
I'm not asking for their new alt.
If someone back then was banned for gatekeeping or misgendering and won't do that anymore, not only will they not be banned in "retaliation", their banned account will be unbanned. All they need to do is reach out to me
If someone back then was banned for gatekeeping and misgendering, but didn't do those things, not only will they not be banned in "retaliation", their banned account will be unbanned. All they need to do is reach out to me.
If someone back then was banned for gatekeeping and misgendering and they don't reach out to me, I still I won't ban their new account if I become aware of it, because the point of all of this is to make it clear that gatekeeping and misgendering are not on. If they're not doing that on their second account, their second account won't get banned, because the first ban achieved its purpose.
tl;dr - Whoever they are, if they're not gatekeeping and misgendering folk, they'll be fine.
They should open a thread here documenting Why their ban was a power trip.
Two possible outcomes
If there was already such a post, feel free to link to it, sorry if I don't remember, it's been a while to be honest
db0 and unruffled were pretty clear they didn’t want any more LBZ posting back when those threads were common. i’d instead recommend just apologizing and doing a ban appeal to Ada. she’s actually a very nice person :)
I'm not going to get into that discussion again, it has been discussed to death in those threads above.
Still, based on numbers, the majority of the !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone either left for !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone or stayed there.
The LW one is the less active of the 3
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=196&order=active_month
Okay?