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.

Relevant comms

!fediverselore@lemmy.ca

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MODERATORS

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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A short ban, probably not worth discussing, but which has created a significant chilling effect on my use of my host instance (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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before i made an account, i reached out to the chief admin of lemmy.dbzer0.com

i was recently banned during a discussion on the validity of a claim regarding the consensus about the safety of a vegan diet:

and, if you bother to go find that discussion, you'll find that, in fact, my interlocutor did become incivil. i did report that. and somehow, my discussion and the subsequent report were the basis of a ban.

it was less than 2 hours. it's almost not worth discussing.

but given my pre-application discussion, i felt strongly that my conduct is within the bounds of the acceptable use of the instance. so if my conduct is not within the acceptable use, that means i basically cant use my account(s) as i planned and under the terms which i agreed.

db0 has said he doesn't want to be the benevolent dictator for life, and has specifically both recused himself from ruling on my conduct and encouraged me to post here and in !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com (though i'm still holding off on that for now).

so, did i deserve it? power tripping bastard? what do you think?

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Whether you believe your actions are from a place of honest discussions or not does not change the fact that your actions on this account portray a rage baiter who particularly finds joy in attacking vegans. Your stance on consumer activism is a very weak reason to specifically target vegans considering that consumer activism is just a consequence of going vegan. At the heart of veganism is the understanding that non-human animals deserve compassion and rights, not consuming them would be part of it wether you live in a capitalistic society (in which case you could say that in a sense you are participating in consumer activism) or a communist society (where consumer activism is not really a thing)

Your cry for help here shows your bias. It paints a picture of a person who has a target demographic that they enjoy harassing.

@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com I don't know your policy, I don't know you, but is this really the kind of user you want to entertain? Look at his recent comments. This is not honest discussion.

EDIT:

I also noticed that he is the mod of c/vegan... I don't know what the policy and goal of your instance is but I doubt that the entire instance is satirical/trolling. The fact that he is modding a community which he is actively fighting against and is ideologically opposed to is ridiculous. It makes the community dead on arrival and it once again shows that he is not having a good faith discussion.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

Nrxn has already voluntarily moved instances