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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:

  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.

Rules


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.


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Relevant comms

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Zombie\@feddit.uk c 个32• 2 days ago Sir/Ma'am, this is a Wendy's international network. Taleya\@aussie.zone c 个7• 2 days ago Norah (pup/it/she) Banned from community P1 • 2 days ago I really like Saer as a gender neutral honorific, it's used in Baldur's Gate :) in jordanlund\@lemmy.world 1 1. 4 hours ago One of my favorite authors simply distilled it down to M. Mr? Mrs? Miss? Ms? M. Makes it super simple. Norah (pup/it/she) Banned from community \+ 2 • 0 3 hours ago Removed by mod ShaggySnacks\@lemmy.myserv.one c 1 1 • 14 hours ago I use Mi'they/them.

You could easily make the call that I deserve this ban. But after Jordan lied about a user the other day, calling them transphobic to try and get trans people (and others) on his side as a cis white man, I just did not have the patience for him to start talking @ me about anything related to gender.

Not only that, but his reply in itself was a bit of* a powertrip in my opinion. I reported the bottom comment as "seems a bit attack helicopter-y?" mainly because that user seemed to have a posting history that indicated being a bit of an outrage merchant. I didn't necessarily want the comment removed, more than anything I was hoping to ping @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone to keep an eye on the user. It feels like his reply was a bit of "I've seen this, I don't care and I'm going to show you that I don't care by replying to you publicly without acknowledging your report privately".

I'm also pretty sure I upset his feefees with my comment the other day here on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com and he jumped at the opportunity to ban me from somewhere. Yeah, I baited that reaction but come on, a permanent ban on a first offence? Yeah, alright mate.

I didn't even realise I was in a lemmy.world community, let alone one @jordanlund@lemmy.world moderates (god one of the other mods is PugJesus) or I pawbably wouldn't have participated. Going to have to go through all my lemmy.world comms now and unsubscribe I think. Can you imagine running a comm about the heinous nature of policing and then being so authoritarian?

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[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Subscribed! Though it would be nice if that space ends up being more heavily focussed on Aussie policing, as !thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world definitely has a heavily US focus.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Considering I'm probably going to be 99.99% of the content posted, I'm sure it'll have a strong aus slant!

What sort of content should be posted there, links to news, video of incidents, memes, all of the above?

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, !thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world absolutely feels like a more serious space with a centrist lean and I think the name reflects that. However, with a name like !acab@quokk.au I'd assume that it's going to be a touch less serious and a lot more left-leaning. In that case, I think all of the above might be good? I would've loved a space to post news and videos related to the cops in Melbourne protecting alt-right counter-protestors and pepper-spraying the original protestors a few weeks back. I might still go post about that to help add some content since it's brand new.

Additionally, as mentioned in another comment, I don't have a tonne of spare energy because of my disability, but I'd love to contribute to moderation if that's something you need. I mainly didn't feel like I'd be doing a space justice if I were to create it, nor have the spoons to find moderators to contribute either.