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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.
- Keep the comments in YPTB posts about the moderation action itself, not about the general topic in which the moderation took place.
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.
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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Well, there's no acronym for this. We have CLM (clueless mod) for when a mod just doesn't know what the hell they're doing.
We need a CLU for when a user steps into a trap lol. Some accounts on the fediverse are known for some variety of fuckery or another, and it isn't really power tripping when one of those mods engages in their known form of fuckery. It's like buying a used Ford Pinto; yeah, you should be able to buy a car and expect it to behave like a car should. But most people know you just don't buy one unless you're looking for trouble; so only noobs and the terminally unconcerned will buy one.
Linux sucks is a known troll community, run by a known troll. But there's no sticker on the window to tell people that. So if you aren't a lemmizen that's been around for a while, it's easy to get suckered in.
That being said, there is also a tiny bit of YDI here as well. If the community wasn't a troll, you did go into a community named "Linux sucks" and try to post about something other than Linux sucking. It would be like coming here to praise some user that made a great post; nothing wrong with the content, but it just ain't the place.
Sure, known by a vast majority of fediverse users, but OP's account is 5 days old. Id guess it's news to him.
Yeah, this is pretty funny. The Fediverse is a broad enough church for there to be troll communities, like if there was a groucho sub that banned literally everybody.
I'd say the mod takes it too seriously for it to be a troll community. It certainly is a trap, whatever that means.
I'm not exactly clueless. My .zip account is new but I've been browsing for a while.
Background is, I had already seen some memes from that community, didn't think much of it except "that's unusual for lemmy but whatever".
But more notable, I had read OP's opinion earlier that "real gamers play on Windows" on a post from another com. Whatever "real gamers" means.
So I decided to answer that post that poped up on my all feed and that's all. I had no idea the com was so strict, and OP was the mod, and that saying windows has been shittier than linux for me lately is being a "Linux Evangelist". But cool, I guess I found myself a new label.