So, you're telling us how to use this?
Who died and made you God?
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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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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I like this sentiment among lemmyers.
Power to the people!
Downvoted - I disagree...
I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself, I had to downvote this
Y'all make me gonna power trip all over youse arses!
If a ban is justified, then there is (pretty much by definition) no power tripping, right? So I feel like it definitely makes sense for this community to downvote if the ban is justified.
no this just buries the post and doesn't transfer the info, that this is why the downvote was cast (and not, say because it's off-topic). We have text votes for this, check the sidebar
Ah okay - I will say, the community name is a little misleading. The name makes it sound like it's for exposing power-tripping mods, but the sidebar suggests it is for asking whether a mod action is justified or not. Perhaps a different name would be more appropriate.
It's both. Ultimately it's to point power overreach, but these kinds of places have a habit to turn toxic, so I've structured it in a way which promotes constructive dialogue instead of ranting.
!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com, the irony. I'll use the downvote button to show that a ban was justified. The entire purpose of this comm is to show mods power-tripping and I shall downvote content that does not fit the theme of this comm.
I can agree with this, people bellyaching about being censored for hate speech, trolling, or just being evil people isn't helpful, if anything it devalues the community since people will just see that and assume that it's just a complaining community, not a place to share legitimate and objective mod abuse. It's bad enough that Lemmy's culture has a very strong bias devaluing the judgement and opinion of individual users, it would honestly be preferable not to make that worse than it already is.
I worked for a website with up- and down-votes before reddit ever existed. Let me tell you that, no matter what you do or say, the downvote button will always be a disagree button.
I am a simple man. I can only embrace or reject. Nuance is not part of my vocabulary.
this happened before, kinda https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/77db6j/please_stop_sending_the_top_mod_ie_me_private/
Edit: swapped image link. RIP, lemm.ee.
Goddamn that takes me back!
I automatically downvote 'comm' as being confusing and fetch. I think the jargon degrades the value of the post or comment.
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Then when should posts be down voted?
Optimally never. I can't see a reason to downvote in this comm
I only downvote comments in this community reciprocally when the person has downvoted my comments.
But... the meta for the posts appears to have emerged:
- PTB : Upvote
- YDI : Downvote
And the totals:
- Overwhelmingly positive upvotes - Lemmy thinks this was a PTB
- Balanced - You probably deserved it
- Overwhelmingly negative upvotes - You deserved more.
Can't you just disable it then or that a sitewide only option?
It's site wide
Agreed, in general actually, not just for this comm. But it's impossible to enforce, it's too difficult for most humans to upvote/downvote only to promote relevancy and quality, rather than agreement. I don't see any solution for this in a public internet forum.
If you really wanted to have fun, do a weekly wall of shame where you list the downvoters
I see a few people who don't really dare comment on this community are currently on my profile mass downvoting.
Greetings to Russia! Enjoying your autocratic shithole?
I suggest to stop jumping to conclusions
As soon as someone proves even one of them wrong, I will.
But pointing out painfully obvious spam as spam isn't "leaping to conclusions" any more than 1+1=2 and no matter how many bots people get to spam "you can't be sure 1+1 is two!!! ", it won't be.