this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2025
30 points (85.7% liked)
Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
1512 readers
6 users here now
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
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Cantonese sounds distinct compared to Mandarin, its mutualy unintelligible with each other. Younger people like me who went to school in China would understsnd Mandarin, but older people were never taught Mandarin, and its much harder compared to just accent imitation, its almost as different as two different languages, well... it's not that different, since both use the same writing system, spoken cantonese is slightly more colloquial, but when it's written formally, its would be understandable to any Chinese Language Variants (commonly known as "Dialects" but I dislike that term), so you basically pronounce the same characters in a different way. If they can read and write, they don't really need a translator/interpreter. Just grab a pen xD.
Its not just the tones, but also a lot more amount of pronouncible sounds there is.
(Jyutping and Pinyin represent different sounds btw, its not an IPA replacement)
Like 食 (to eat)
Cantonese Jyutping is sik6
Mandarin Pinyin is si2
時 (time)
Cantonese Jyutping is si4
Mandarin Pinyin is si2
(Difference highlighted in bold)
Not only is there more tones, there's also the -p -t -k endings to the sound, so you get much more variety, less homophones.
I always love the following two:
劍 (Sword)
Cantonese Jyutping: gim3
Mandarin Pinyin: jian4
箭 (Arrow)
Cantonese Jyutping: zin3
Mandarin Pinyin: jian4
Imagine being at war, and Mandarin speakers lost because they accidentally brought swords to an bow and arrow fight lmao.
Or this:
雪 (Snow)
Cantonese Jyutping: syut3
Mandarin Pinyin: xue3
血 (Blood)
Cantonese Jyutping: hyut3
Mandarin Pinyin: xue3
Imagine this conversation (imagine its happening in Mandarin):
"There's a lot of [xuě] outside!"
"Oh yea its beautiful, isn't it. First time seeing [xuě] (snow)?"
"No there's a lot of [xuě]! SOMEONE DIED, there's [xuě] EVERWHERE!"
Get it? Because Snow and Blood sound the exact same in Mandarin. Lmfao.
I always love Cantonese more, but yea tankies are gonna call me racist and "han traitor". I'm like: Homie, northern colonizers are forcibly trying to assimulate Guangdong in to speaking a conquerer's language, calm down lol. CCP Tankies are just like the early US colonizers forcing the natives to speak a different language.
Well shit, thank you for the fairly comprehensive breakdown there!
Yeah I am not gonna pretend I know... how ... any of those pronounciation keys actually work or sound, but I will look them up later, lol!
See this is the sentiment that I naturally lean toward, but am obviously not proficient enough in... any Chinese variant, nor really with the history of China beyond what a Chinese person would probably view as grade school level...
But I have spent a bit of time studying the absolutely fascinating wealth of languages and language groups that... my ancestors basically drove to literal, or near total extinction... and... that makes me very, very sad.
The worst part is that... most of them just usually did not write that much down, it was almost all spoken, so its basically up to the fairly few remaining actual native speakers, and an effort of something like forensic linguistics, to try to reconstruct it as best they can, but the good news is that there are a number of schools that have actual curricula to teach at least some of these native tongues, and prevent more linguistic extinction.
I think at least a few of them now have reserved charsets in some kind of more recent version of UTF, but I am not 100% sure about that off the top of my head.