this post was submitted on 13 May 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.


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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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Title says it all. In combination with the recent post about somebody getting banned from the same comm, there's a trend starting to emerge.

Edit: Sad but unsurprising that this immediately got downvoted by a German user

Edit 2: Looks like this was just one of many such posts that got locked without any reason given. Notice a pattern in the topics locked?

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[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Can someone with a moral compass make another europe channel for people who actually respect human rights?

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Looks like Mystic created one that explicitly does not allow Zionism. I subbed, hopefully it'll gain traction once it's got enough mods

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/18755478

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Their instance has the same Zionist policies as Feddit.org though.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Content illegal under Austrian, German, or EU laws (e.g., child exploitation, incitement to hate, or terrorism advocacy) will not be tolerated.

To me that seems like they'd cater to Germany's legally codified definition of "antisemitism" AKA anti-Zionism. Maybe they won't do that but I don't trust them.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t fault for that unless there is direct evidence of them removing criticism of zionism.

I think it's something to be careful of though since mods and admins may yield to it out of fear or lack of knowledge and start going after criticism of Zionism thinking that it will be seen as antisemitism.

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd do it but I'm not super interested in modding such a large community and I'm not sure if @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com would want such a big general community here. I'd create it if he's okay with it and if people would be willing to step up to replace me.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure dbzer0 would be one of the best places for a communuty like this, provided it is well moderated.

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You're right. I think I'll create one. But like I said I'm not willing to moderate such a big community by myself so others will have to take over.

Edit: I just created !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com once it has enough mods I'll transfer it to someone and open it to all posting.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you, subscribed.