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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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- 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).
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- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
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- 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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It's davel@lemmy.ml.
And he says things like "reality has a well known Russian propaganda bias".
I'm bored of your strawman. "Calling everything".
EVERYTHING?
That's not a wild exaggeration, but good faith rhetoric?
I criticise one spambot and wow would you look at most of the accounts doing the downvotes.
If you're unaware, like half of Lemmy is Russians. Lemmy.ml lemmygrad hexbear. You might call most of them "tankies", and no, I don't care to get into the semantics of how you define the word.
Youre seriously gonna pretend you're unaware that fucking everyone on Lemmy knows about hexbear and lemmygrad etc being totally modded by Russians like Dessalines and Davel?
We're on this community, and you're seriously going to pretend you're unaware of how easily those cowards ban anyone calling them out? Just look at the posts on this community ffs.
But you don't, because you don't participate, you just come here to make third-class bad faith bs arguments
Honestly so fking boring get new strategy
YDI, and if you don't stop bad-jacketing people who don't share your politics, you'll be banned from this instance as well.
And you won't stop brigading me and pretending like you're unaware of Lemmy's Russian misinfo issue.
Also calling out propaganda techniques. chefs kiss
Dasus is banned from lemmy.ml so davel won't see this post or anyone’s @s.
More bad faith
More bad faith exaggeration. everybody
Shitty strawman. Come back when you can formulate even a half decent argument that isn't so childishly bad
what does @davel@lemmy.ml have to do with any of this?
Again, just plain ignoring what I've repeated a dozen times.
You can't come up with anything but you're quaking in your boots, smashing your keyboard in rage. How long do you think acting that obtuse will work?
And why do you ignore every point of every message? Almost as if your scared to answer because it would reveal your cognitive dissonance. But you can't do that because you have to keep deluding yourself. Which is hard, I know.
I'm actually not that annoyed :).
What is my cognitive dissonance? What conflicting beliefs do I have?
In any case, you're ignoring my question. What does @davel@lemmy.ml have to do with this.
Oh that his very clear months long spam isn't spam, but three comments by me has to be.
They fact you don't even see it is kinds worrying to be honest
Where did you get your basic education? Because it wasn't great
Bad faith pretending ignorance.
The rhetorical equivalent of fighting 5-year olds.
Davel is an actual Russian bad actor. And he has multiple accounts on Lemmy obviously.
Bad faith ignorance.
So fking boring gimme even a challenge. But you can't