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.
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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Understanding statistics and calling out reporting bias is a bannable offence on [email protected] (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Cypher to c/[email protected]

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[–] Cypher 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Its is always nice to see a well reasoned response! I agree it's a good thing that renewables are playing an increasingly important role in energy grids, but misrepresentation of that role helps no one.

A comments section where you’re only allowed to agree with things OP and the mods and admins and the article author think are the right way to look at it, is super weird and mostly useless.

It really doesn't help when the poster and the mod are one and the same. Too many people take dissenting opinions as a personal attack.

You are correct I do not shy away from sharing my opinions regardless of how controversial they may be in some communities, and I think that's mostly healthy for online discourse.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It really doesn’t help when the poster and the mod are one and the same. Too many people take dissenting opinions as a personal attack.

Jesus Christ. That shouldn't be allowed, honestly. If someone doesn't have the maturity to handle someone telling them they are wrong in the comments section, I think they should literally be required to go and fetch a separate person to get a distinct opinion on it and do the moderation for them and not be allowed to touch the buttons.

Non-whites have never been police, never talked to police, never voted for the Evil Party and shouldn’t be included at all in advice to not be evil, misguided or duped.

Note: 16% of black voters and 43% of latino voters in the U.S. voted for Trump.

If you need a /s at the end of that comment to get the sarcasm you are really really bad at reading context cues.

I think I am, yeah. Edited the original reply now to turn it into a sidenote :D

Hahah fair enough

(Comments from OP are in bold.)

If there's one thing I have very rarely seen trolls do, it's clarify a misunderstanding and then laugh it off once everyone is on the same page again. Honestly, I also thought your sarcasm was a little hard to detect, just because there are some crazy opinions on the internet. But in retrospect it's clearly sarcasm, and you're clearly approaching the conversation productively and making a salient point through the sarcasm. Actually, your exact point was one reason I made a whole separate post of my own about interacting with the police, instead of just reposting that fairly-good-with-some-caveats advice. The comment about white people left a bad taste in my mouth as well.

[–] Cypher 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Woops I somehow replied to the wrong comment earlier!

Unfortunately while communities are small and content is slow mods are somewhat forced to be the primary posters in their communities, but clearly some people just aren't mature enough, and here we are in YPTB!

Funnily enough I had a disagreement recently with a mod of YPTB in that same comment section but their response was somewhat measured, though I still disagree with them, so didn't earn a post here.

I also thought your sarcasm was a little hard to detect

Hmm maybe I was a bit harsh in my initial response, but prior to the other posters edit his reply was also fairly strong.

The comment about white people left a bad taste in my mouth as well.

Glad I'm not the only one.