this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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The post was https://lemmy.ml/post/27600301 on !antitrust@lemmy.ml

When opening the link, it popped up something I didn't even get to see because it created crashed my browser.

I returned to the post and commented "Jesus, the pop-up on that site is brutal " that's it, that's the exact quote because I use an app that stores things from specific sources that are typed in

Annnnd banned

For being annoying.

Because the mod didn't like their link being criticised.

I ain't even mad, I'm just amazed to see a PTB in the wild like that.

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[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

So because you disliked the website's popup under a mods post, the mod got butthurt, deleted your comment and banned you? Just for saying you don't like the popup and nothing else??

Lol, PTB.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 months ago

Ikr? It's textbook ptb. I was so surprised by it, I started laughing

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago

Just .ml things

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

FWIW, I restored SJW's local copy of your comment.
That won't federate or anything, but at least it doesn't say 'removed' on our end anymore.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago

Appreciate it :)

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 2 months ago

Tankies get pissy when you criticize anything they like. Don’t use .ml and save yourself the hassle of dealing with them.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And they removed a reply to your comment too:

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago

Oh damn, they just be trippin all over!

[–] satxdude@lemm.ee 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you wanted to know who it is.

Edit: removed picture apparently pulling mod names is against the rules of this comm. But that community does have one sole moderator, so take that for what you will.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

This one is extra dumb, even by ml standards.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Inclined to say PTB just because being annoying isn’t a valid reason for a ban but what did you actually say?

[–] satxdude@lemm.ee 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 34 points 2 months ago

OK yeah this is an open and shut case then lol. I was imagining maybe you said it in an insulting way or something but no this is just the classic archetype of PTB.

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 months ago

Nothing new. .ml mods are so bad that it makes discord mods look sane.

[–] kux@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ptb ofc

but just because i was curious, the popup in question:

thanks aslan!

amusingly the link works fine if you remove all the parameters and displays no popup at all

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-real-reason-walgreens-collapsed

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I have no idea why my browser choked on that, but holy crap it did.

[–] lemonmelon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

I saw it, and got a little excited to have something to post here lol

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

.ml

To nobody's surprise

[–] littletoolshed@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is another comment chain in that post saying the exact same thing, and the OP engaged - https://reddthat.com/comment/17475791

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Lmao. Dude be trippin

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Clicked out of curiosity but no pop up here. Highly recommend uBlock Origin OP, and possibly a DNS solution like NextDNS/Adguard/PiHole. Would solve this problem.

it appears substackcdn.com is the offending domain, uBlock filters the pop up even without it being fully blocked.

[–] UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

PTB for sure!