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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:
- 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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- Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
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- 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.
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- Keep the comments in YPTB posts about the moderation action itself, not about the general topic in which the moderation took place.
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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.
YPTB 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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For the curious, here’s that antiableist list
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.
within context
reply_insults_intelligenceNice, 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...
Isn't the idiom “hard-headed” more precise?
The etymology of stubborn still eludes us.
“Unwilling to budge” is also accurate.
I'd rather use hard-headed, or something to do with a mule (as we say in french, mulehead)
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.
https://www.unitedaccess.com/us/en/blog/disability-rights/history-of-term-handicapped.html
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.
Ask a golfer.