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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Yeah nsfwyoutube already got flagged once previously on one community... even-though they explain just under the post what it is all about : youtube without login.
could CLM explain a ban in like 30 communities, and not 10 other (on lemmy.ml) I was subscribed to? Did 30 mods just banned me on a false report? Plus some of those 30 communities, I didnt post in since days! I dont get how I can be ban for spam on communities I didnt post on
If they site ban you then the community bans are automatic. They will all expire at the same time. I suspect if you DM the mod and explain it wasn't a spam link, they will unban you.
site ban.. then why I was not banned on some of lemmy.ml communities (may be those community had no mod, I didnt check)
I have way to know the mod who did that. Plus I dont care for a community that is so trigger happy with banning.
Mistakes happen sometimes, but I get you are still mad about it.
not mad at all. the beauty of lemmy, is that if you dont like the behavior of a community/instance.. you dont have to stay with it, you create your own.
If an instance feel it is okay to ban for 40 day someone because of 2 post at a few minutes interval... I really dont want to post on that instance anymore. I post things I find interesting. It is more a way to archive links in the same place. If it is deleted (by error or powertrip) , it make me lose time, and my references. So i'd rather post somewhere else, where it will stay.
Thanks for your time, and the explanations
You should just post YouTube links directly as a rule. The people who don't want to use YouTube directly can stick the link into their preferred proxy themselves.
why? If it just to not get banned.. I really dont care about being banned
Everyone has different preferences for their YT proxies. And well, "nsfwyoutube.com" does not sound like the most reputable one.
Blocking the instance and then posting in yepowertrippinbastards paints a different story. But time moves on, so good that it's behind you now.
Oh it is my general policy... if a community delete one of my post, I block it. As I said, I will not waste my time (and that community time) on a community that dont want my posts. Here we are so far: (most of them, are just subjects I dont care about to be honest)
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Huh, I might have to retract that last part. For someone who doesn't care about bans, you surely do care a lot about bans (and apparently get a lot of your posts deleted)...
Looking at the modlog ooli3 has not had many posts removed.
you're right. I care in the sense, that i dont want to have my post deleted by some mod that assume things without checking (like me spamming in that case). And no, delete are pretty rare. Last one was 2 month ago (as seen as the bottom of the pic), and I post like 5-10 links /day
Right, my bad. A ban/delete every two months seems like a lot, but I didn't consider how much you post, which gives a better perspective.
And yes, it would appear that the mod was either lazy, or didn't want to click a potentially malicious link. Most likely the former, though.