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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.
Rules
- 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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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.)
I guess I only tune into things when they're notable
Indeed, the amount of maldling in hexbear comms about /0 is only exceeded by their pettiness
The amount of
on display here is astounding. I lurk on hexbear all the time and I almost never see people there even mentioning your silly instance. I do remember one exception when a hb mod was calling for defederation, pointing out how much water you carry for rightwingers and fash with some of your anti-communist screeds, but not only was that like over a year ago, that mod isn't even around anymore, and I've seen no one on hexbear mention your instance once since then(it may happen from time to time but it is rare. However every time I see your name or unruffled pop up in my feed, it is always one of you whinging about those evil tankies on hexbear or the meanie tankes on .ml or how "authoritarian" the tankies on lemmygrad are.
I'm not one to "laugh out loud" when I'm reading usually, but your comment above actually made me chuckle a little. It's just so obviously backwards with reality, how can someone not be embarrassed to say that and so plainly demonstrate how much those ebil tankies live "rent free" in their head?
Oh well if you didn't see it, it surely hasn't happened 🙄I'd link you to the half dozen defed, whinge and slop threads but otoh I don't care nearly as much.
Yeah, I read hexbear every day. I lurk the modlog. I skim for drama. Dbzero shite is simply not something that any hexbears think or care about outside of some few specific incidents where y'all really are just showing everyone your whole ass and thinking you're righteous. If hexbears had even the slightest fraction of seething towards dbzer0 that y'all have (a few specific mods and users, I think most dbzer0 users are probably fine) against hexbear, I really would be well aware of it. I'm not proud that I would be well aware, that's an admission on my part that I'm too online (though I do organize irl too). But I would be aware if hexbears ever "malded" about your little anti-tankie instance. Hexbears think you're embarrassing and worthy of a facepalm but not much else, so sometimes the most wince-worthy things you say get posted to the slop comm. But really none of us actually give a shit about yet another wannabe anarchist site that just ends up sheepdogging users back to liberalism. Not uncommon, sadly. Dime'a'dozen. Like, we have no problem with actual anarchitsts and many of our top posters are anarchists. Meanwhile, much of your reason for your very existence on lemmy is this left-punching, pathetic anti-tankie vendetta cringe. Hell, it's in your instance sign-up form! All the hollering about "bRiGaDiNg!" in this very thread is more testament to exactly that.
tl;ldr. Stay mad.