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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 was just pointing out that there are multiple communities on the threadiverse that do the same thing, including some hosted on this very instance! A community moderator's job is to grow a community and if a person isn't a right fit for the community why would a moderator want to keep them around, especially if they are disruptive to the community
Ok, so they deserve being banned for ... breaking an undefined rule.
That's your position?
EDIT: the whole problem here is this person got banned from a comm they'd never been to... for spamming.
That doesn't make sense.
You saying them being banned from a comm they'd never been to... for disrupting that comm... also does not make any sense.
The other element of this problem is powermods (by which I mean people who mod multiple comms) and admins banning people from one place for infractions committed in another, and then potentially daisy chaining through private convos between mods... when said banned person isn't really clearly violating stated rules that have that stated penalty outcome.
That is exactly the kind of hivemind/culty bullshit that is what people hate about reddit, that there's basically just a cool kids club that doesn't actually follow any rules with any consistency, and just acts as a kind of Mean Girls squad, exiling and censoring people ... basically for annoying them or making fools of them.
Its middle school mentality. Vibes based moderation. Censorship by popularity contest, where only the cool kids get to vote on that.
I'm sure it's not suspicious at all that she woke up her account after 8 months to say this and then leave. Not at all.
Welp I didn't bother to check that, but ... yeah.
Very normal, typical active user behavior right there, lol.
And she's downvoting us for calling it out. I'm willing to bet she'll be offline again by the end of the week.
Edit: hey she's already turned off her account after 2 days! New record.
Alt accounts get very eepy, they need lots of time to eep, ok?!
Oh so eepy, and somehow she's back after months in this one thread.
Or maybe I prefer to lurk and spend more time offline? What is this bad-faith misogyny directed at me for?
Misogyny?
Being eepy implies being... a woman?
... ???
Also, ... lurking... is an online activity.
You'd either have to be doing it anonymously, or with a different account.
So... you can't lurk online and be offline at the same time, that's a contradiction...
And its also just generally weird that'd you'd only pop in and become an active poster... for the purposes of making nonsensical arguments regarding meta drama.
Sure, its not 100% confirmation that... you're just sock puppeting through an alt account... but its very strange, a very nontypical behavior pattern for the user account of more or less an internet forum.
You say you mostly lurk, but you also have very strong opinions about... the moderation of communities... you... don't actually engage with?
Odd.
And she's offline already for over 5 days. Wow it's like we were right and she couldn't get her own story straight. Huh. Surely this means nothing.
Probably unrelated, I ran into another user with a dubious posting history, who... not quite, but almost literally 'woke up', a week ago, after about 2 years of dormancy... to insult me... their user name is literally militaryintelligence@lemmy.world.
... Perhaps I should be handing you a lead jacket when I am nearby, just in case i am so radioactive that i am glowing and don't realize it.
... fucking: sheesh.
I've also had at least one person seemingly downvoting nearly any comment i make, for the last couple of days... i have not bothered to look at some kind of lemmy vote analysis tool, because i don't really care that much ... but that is perhaps also relevant and notable?
I dunno.
Whee! Internet is fun! Wheeeee!
People will really stalk profiles instead of going outside or enjoying something else. It's fucking maddening. And then they'll call you weird for finding it weird.
It's just odd. And somehow sexist to point it out. And somehow we've defended it before. Just ignore the lack of users Diva told us who do it.
https://lemvotes.org/user/SoftQuartz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Totally normal user. Not at all suspicious that they are active for one thread and then goes off for months.
But I guess it's somehow weird to call it out. She's normal for "lurking" and also somehow being subject to mod actions for months. While not posting or doing anything for months.
More bad faith bullshit, I downvoted you one time in this post "She won’t acknowledge shit." You two are so dogmatic about tankies you are attacking me because I disagree with your boys club
My position is that if you don't like a community then you should not go there to be disruptive. When someone continues to disrupt a community that they dislike it is within the moderators duties to stop that. I support the moderators on divisionbyzero who use that to curate positive communities, just the other day another moderator made a now locked post saying they do the exact same thing complained about by the OP. I also have a reply from Diva saying that the OP has done this same action so I stand by my PTB statement.
Ok so you're missing the entire basis point of why this is absurd.
They got banned from a comm they'd never been to, never posted in... because they were apparently 'spamming'.
You... can't have spammed a community that you've never made a post or comment in.
... Also, you say you stand by your PTB statement?
Your original statement, the inciting thing for this whole comment chain... is you issuing a YDI verdict.
Not a PTB verdict.
Those two are basically total opposites.
... Are you confused?
Like, just generally?