this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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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.


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All posts should follow this basic structure:

  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

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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.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29035971

Posting here for preservation's sake

Image in removed comment was the attached Palpatine image. Curious to see if the same admin mod would remove these screenshots if I crosspost them to !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com , which they also admin and mod. Would I get a fair trial there or will my dissenting and others’ be silenced?

You can’t say you’re against disinfo if you’re knowing and intentionally promulgating it and abetting its usage. They also didn’t even remove the Reddit watermark.

This is why I don’t assign identities unto myself, because you criticize one action done wrong by leaders of an ideology or movement and bam! you’re shut out of it completely. They’ve lost the aid of an ally and progress is impeded by being shorted a participant trying to correct the course.

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[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

You can complain all you like in here, feel free.

Different communities have different purposes and different moderation guidelines. So I think this is a ridiculous take. The lefty memes comm is of course going to be seen by certain people as "propaganda", but it's not for them, it's for leftists. If other folks also enjoy it then great, but if not, no big deal.

You can’t say you’re against disinfo if you’re knowing and intentionally promulgating it and abetting its usage. They also didn’t even remove the Reddit watermark.

(So) what?? We have no rules against reposting AI generated images in that community. What AI images have I ever posted to FvD? None, zero, sfa... unless they were the subject of a debunking article. So it was just a bullshit troll comment afaik.

But we do have an instance rule that says "Fuck around and find out", a community rule in Lefty Memes that says "1. Socialist Unity in the form of mutual respect and good faith interactions is enforced here" and finally " 3. No liberalism, (right-wing) revisionism or reactionaries."

This is why I don’t assign identities unto myself, because you criticize one action done wrong by leaders of an ideology or movement and bam! you’re shut out of it completely. They’ve lost the aid of an ally and progress is impeded by being shorted a participant trying to correct the course.

Also you:

I'm not feeling a lot of allyship vibes from that tbh.

The reason you got a permaban is because the anti-ai crowd usually can't stop themselves from banging on about it. If you agree to not post bullshit troll comments in the community again then I'll consider reducing the ban.

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[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 weeks ago

YDI. This is an anarchist, copyleft instance. We don't value the capitalist idea of intellectual property. Take that neoliberal bullshit back to the centrist safe spaces.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago

YDI, what did you expect coming into a leftist anti-copyright community on a leftist anti-copyright instance? You whine about AI in every post and comment using it. You need to learn to block them, otherwise you'll keep having experiences like these.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mmm, sorry. I agree in principle, but that was definitely outside of community rules.

That makes it YDI, even though it seems a permaban was issued. That could matter, because this could have been your first offense, and that's a heavy handed action with no malice in the comment removed.

But if it isn't your first offense, or it was compounded after the fact with comments, messages, or other events that exacerbate the original rule breaking, a permaban could be justified.

While I understand that the concept of responding to a meme with a meme being rule breaking is one that isn't exactly clear in those rules, I believe that a reasonable person could tell that the meme used in response is one that is commonly used in a dismissive and/or condescending manner. The subject of the meme image, and the "irony" that meme conveys is not close to the line, it's a pretty blunt put down.

Since it's in meme form as well, it isn't engaging, it's just an offhand, smug response. Within the rules of that community, that is absolutely a removable comment.

I rarely do this, but I disagree with a lot of the established rules of that community, and have it blocked partially because of their specific rules and moderation policies. While that's off topic for this community, I want to make it clear that I would, on an emotional response level, have preferred this be power tripping. But it just wasn't.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Squorlple indeed has a long history of bad faith trolling, and Bad-jacketing. He should consider himself lucky he wasn't given a permanent instance ban. I certainly would've had I been in charge of that descision and I can't blame other people for having the same opinion. There's only so much bullshit people can tolerate from someone before it's clear that they're 1. Never going to contribute anything in good faith, and 2. Never going to change. It's why we have permanent bans in the first place.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Squorlple was banned from blahaj for reference of how bad faith they are.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh yeah I saw that, I almost forgot about that, not the best look for Squorlple...

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

Bad faith troll whines when someone catches them being a bad faith troll, news at 11.

[–] nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

YDI. It's a leftist community. Stop brigading and read the rules.

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[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

YDI. Like others have said, we're against copyright here.

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