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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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I haven't seen one in quite a while. There were a bunch around when we started federation because of course there was, there were about every community we federated with as communities started mixing and there was friction. Which makes sense, lots of communities had threads about Hexbear too for the same reason. Last thread about db0 as an instance specifically I can recall you were defending a trans hating Nazi sympathizer, not sure why you'd think a mostly trans instance wouldn't talk about that. It doesn't make db0 a special target, we talk about all the trans hating Nazis who hate our existence. We really aren't that unreasonable when framed like that (ie: correctly). More communities should talk about their transphobic members, it's good to have that stuff out in the open.
I also don't recall any of our current admins or mods specifically talking about db0 outside the context of those threads. Possible I missed it but I'm usually pretty tuned in so.
In short, it's funny how annoying we are to basically the entire fediverse when all we do to deserve the hate is "maybe it's bad to hate trans people" and "maybe genocide is bad."
You don't seem like you're very tuned in much if you've missed all the rest tbh. It's been way more and none of it has been transphobic (except of course the usual most uncharitable interpretations of hexbears by which there's nazi transphobes everywhere.)
can't speak for infamous but generally, not being tuned in to the middle-school crap you wade thru by choice daily speaks to a maturity you have not yet been convinced to strive for.
Oh gawds, I really have every random salty hexbear jumping in to reply to me today. Don't you have anything better to do than perpetuating middle-school crap?
its not that youve angered me today db0, what angers me about you —and people like you — is your wasted potential. to have the amount of energy you do (i'm jealous) only to waste all of it on ego-driven pursuits makes me wonder if the two human traits are linked somehow, so often do they overlap.
all i can do for solace is prick the soft skin of that over-aired balloon and laugh as you fly around
"I'm not angry at you son, just disappointed."
Right, I'm a "bloated egoist" because I can't help myself but reply to goading comments. As far as you know, that's all I do. Nothing else of value has come from my "energy", at least compared to you and yours. Am I right?
is this true? can you really not help yourself? then not replying to this comment is your first step to becoming your best self. i'll be sad our time is done, but i'll be forced to take back my comment on your refusal to grow
"You stopped going to the family therapy sessions, so I guess you aren't interested in being part of this family anymore."
I'm autistic. What's your excuse?
Fuck off, don't try to use autism as an excuse for bad behavior.
And you're neurotypical and have a stick up your ass.
There we go again with the hexbear ableism. There's no bad behaviour here, I am merely explaining where my compulsion comes from.
Autism is counter revolutionary now.