this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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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:

  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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Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
Rimu

What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

Kicking from all Matrix PieFed rooms

Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Rimu has been manufacturing non-stop drama for weeks. He ignores multiple offers from multiple parties to de-escalate, and now he bans someone for trying to promote non-discriminatory language. He has also now cut off a PieFed admin from any and all support and ability to contribute to the software.

Oh and the real kicker ? Rimu did all this after his big grand post about how he is stepping back from drama and hiding away from users.

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[–] alapakala@quokk.au 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

As for insults, be creative with your words and do so without being ableist.

So we should not say someone is stupid, rather, that they could not find their ass with both hands, could not fight their way out of a wet paper bag, could fall into a bucket of titties and come out sucking their thumb?

I'm not sure that that's better.

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 5 points 22 hours ago

within context reply_insults_intelligence

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Nice, thanks !

The list is recommending stubborn as an alternative to delusional, but I thought that meant someone born without limbs ? isn't that super-duper-ableist ?

Wiktionary says "uncertain origin" but in doubt I would just abstain

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stubborn

edit I think I confused stub with stump.
Stump means "what remains of a limb that was cut off". My bad...

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't the idiom “hard-headed” more precise?
The etymology of stubborn still eludes us.
“Unwilling to budge” is also accurate.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 22 hours ago

I'd rather use hard-headed, or something to do with a mule (as we say in french, mulehead)

[–] Envidon@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Thanks for sharing, do you know why disabled is preferred over handicapped? As a non native speaker they carry the same meaning/connotation for me.

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

What language?
“Handicapped” connotates the person can never be reenabled or regain ability. It also undermines enabling tools. It's often used as belittling language, instead enablement.

English is also not my native language.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 23 hours ago