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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.
Keep the comments in YPTB posts about the moderation action itself, not about the general topic in which the moderation took place.

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.

YPTB 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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.world mods are removing Thomas Jefferson quotes for "advocating violence" (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ayyy@sh.itjust.works to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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How deep are they willing to guzzle that Nazi boot?

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[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

...have you expended the slightest bit of effort to do that? Because there are plenty.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

I've researched a few dozen.

Every time I dig deep there's something unreconcialable I find in usually the community or the admins' unfair moderation practices. Or it's really small and weird and I don't understand what it's about.

.world is cringe and corporate feeling, like reddit, but the admins are more consistent than the smaller communities I've tried.

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

Sopuli.xyz might be a good option.

They are a medium sized general purpose instance based in Finland with good admins, a consistently updated Lemmy, and fast speeds.

Also @shadowplayer2@lemmy.world and @HalifaxJones@lemmy.world

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I'll check it out, thanks

Any controversies I should know about?

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago

None that I'm aware of :D

Also just want to mention you can export your subscriptions, blocks, and saved posts/comments as a JSON file from your account settings page, and then import that file at your new instance in the same spot!

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[–] shadowplayer2@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Please update here if you find one! The draw of lemmy (and fediverse in general) should be that if something like this happens we aren’t beholden to the instance and can switch, but unfortunately I share your experience with other instances 😔

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[–] HalifaxJones@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Im in the same boat :/

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[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

that's fair. I like sdf.org but I would, I chose it.

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