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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.

YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.


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UniversalMonk, PapaSkwat, DonaldJMusk, TheSilentNickel, QuantumTickler, his communities are full of Astro turfing sock puppets.

EDIT: My list of sock puppets. I doubt it's perfect and I may have picked up a few that weren't him

Area15@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today
EndlessApollo@hilariouschaos.com
EndlessApollo@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
KaratinBandit@feddit.uk
PapaSkwat@lemmings.world
PapaSkwat@lemmy.today
PhilipsHurtFeelings@crazypeople.online
QuantumTickle@maga.place
Rhoerii@lemy.lol
Snatchdaddy@hilariouschaos.com
TheSilentNickel@feddit.org
barrygoldwater@lemmy.wtf
donaldjmusk@maga.place
thesilentnickel@lemmy.today
thesilentnickel@lemmyusa.com
donaldjmusk@lemmyusa.com
quantumtickler@hilariouschaos.com
quantumtickler@feddit.org
quantumtickler@lemmy.myserv.one

To the mods of this comm, I understand this isn't a post complaining about a mod action taken against me. It's hardly even a complaint against a mod, although he does mod a handful of communities. I know it's a hard-to-prove personal message that the accused will deny sending or say was a joke he told a troll, his word vs mine. But this is beyond the usual actions mods take. This is abuse of the fediverse, harrassment, ban evasion, and vote manipulation.

I believe the situation to be self evident even without this message that the users who frequent DonaldJMusk's comms are primarily him with a new username on a new server and they're leaking out into other communities with ill intent.

If action is to be taken against this post, I ask that it be locked and not deleted.

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[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (36 children)

I believe the situation to be self evident

idk, man, do you got any evidence this is UM other than "trust me, bro"?

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (29 children)

I'm an Admin on lemmy.today and the accusation that DJM is UM (and others) occasionally comes up. Both I and @mrmanager@lemmy.today have looked into it and neither of us have ever been able to find any kind of proof.

I've engaged with several Lemmy users who supposedly had proof but they were unable to provide anything better than what OP has up above. It's always loose conjecture and "trust me, bro".

Yes the DJM account is annoying but that's not enough to get banned from our instance.

[–] ProudAntifa@lemmings.world 0 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Ok, now do DonaldJMusk and the other dozen accounts.

I know you can't because of them being on other servers that aren't playing ball but that kinda feels like the point.

You're just the bartender, but once this conversation is over I'm done with Lemmy. Not your instance, all of Lemmy. He's following and harassing me everywhere and the most you can do is call him annoying.

Fuck you.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I insulted this idiot once or twice, and they didn't follow me around. I'm curious how hard you went in the paint.

Edit: someone linked my mod file and apparently that idiot perma banned me from a dozen communities I have never interacted with. So my point is moot.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

All DonaldJMusk accounts are banned on Piefed.social.

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you're a brand new account making accusations, but not providing any proof to back those up, and suddenly after less than a day you've had enough of Lemmy and are leaving?

sounds like you just wanted to stir the pot for the attention.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

But how else would the UM haters find new ways to stir shit without the one day old user who offered nothing? Proof is evil!

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ok, now do DonaldJMusk and the other dozen accounts.

When I say "DJM" I am referring to DonaldJMusk.

He’s following and harassing me everywhere and the most you can do is call him annoying.

You obviously have another account because the one you're commenting from is only 6 hours old, has just 1 post (this one) and only 17 comments (all in here). I checked because I wanted to see one of these accounts harassing you and look into it. Unfortunately there's nothing for me to see so there's nothing I can do.

My suggestion would be to report the user accounts that are causing you grief to the admins of the accounts home instance and then block them. Takes like 15 seconds to do both of those actions.

Fuck you.

Sadly my wife isn't into sharing, otherwise I might be interested. 😘

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey admin! I'm curious. I started an argument with someone and they mentioned my mod file. I'm still super new here and don't quite understand what that means. Can you explain it and/or tell me how terrible of a person I am based solely on that file?

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

And big lol at all the "serial down voting" bans. I thought voting was public, and I do not down vote often.

I must've seriously pissed off a prolific mod.

This is strange, it says I'm banned from my own instance. I'm so very confused.

Lol.

It's all the shit I talked to them!

This is a good trip down memory lane.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago

Amazing how you proved a day old account made to make this point wrong, and they freak out. I'm sure that's not suspicious.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Weird thing to crash over people saying you could be wrong. That's always an option.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago
  • Day old account
  • Op makes post that has loose evidence
  • OP makes claim and gives no proof of that claim
  • OP is told their evidence doesn't make sense by two different admins independently
  • OP then leaves because of it
  • People then come in believing the thing made up and attack users who give them proof otherwise, like OP.

Bravo. And they say we're the bots. Or Tankies. But Hexbear said we're bad guys for not being Tankie enough. What a wild 48 hours it's been for us. Somehow too far left but not left enough. Somehow asking for proof is a lie.

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