Normally I would remove this is off-topic and better fitting in fedilore, but since it technically involves a instance admin taking action, it's close enough. But please follow the posting guidelines next time.
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 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:
- 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.
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- 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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As the so-called conservative movement continues its transformation into fascism, this will escalate the conflict between inclusiveness and ideals of free speech.
Even as someone who is more pro-free speech than most Lemmy users, I’m glad endorsing sieg heils is still beyond the rubicon on Lemmy.
I heard the mods on the lemm.ee one were dismissing reports to protect the posts and users who were rightfully reported. So they deserve it, and it was probably the best thing that could've been done, second to banning the community outright of course.
The one on Lemmy.world was probably a very similar story, and if I remember right that community was nothing but trolling and occasional bigotry. As are most conservative communities on the Fediverse.
This is what makes Lemmy so great. Reddit won’t remove mods for…reasons. Same three fuckers running like 75% of the damn site.
The conservative community on Lemmy.World is straight up just trolling, and not entirely just for conservative conversations.
Some people make memes out of Alex Jones, but all that accomplishes is normalizing that kind of behavior and giving people like him free cover behind humor. Dan and Jordan at Knowledge Fight have talked about the harms of turning people like him into seemingly harmless clowns.
Satirizing and making fun of people is one thing, but at some point, you need to recognize when the net effect becomes simply spreading their propaganda for free.
(When I say "you," I mean in the general sense.)
The lemm.ee admins are the real ~~racists~~ powertrippers, though!
-former /c/conservative mods probably.
To be fair, though. Wasn't the Musk "my heart goes out to you" valentine actually a Daily Show joke thing? I can see it easily being appropriated by conservatives... but was that what was actually happening?
One card featured an image of Elon Musk with his arm raised and the words, "My heart goes out to you!"
I sure did not see that coming 😉