this post was submitted on 03 Apr 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.


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.


Some acronyms you might see.


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[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sorry for not seeing this earlier. Work was hell today.

Your correct. This isn't racism. I'm reinstating your comment now.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

I left .world a while ago, I didn't leave Reddit to put up with the same bullshit on Lemmy

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Yeah the mods of the news Community being in favor of fascism doesn't surprise me.

[–] Sauvandu60@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Conflating zionist state of israel with the jewish people is anti-semitism. Israel does not represent all jewish people worldwide.

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 1 day ago

I agree. How do we get the world to recognize that fact?

Genuinely asking, because seeing the Australian government bow to Zionist pigs over this is really tiring me out.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

#MODS MODS THIS MAN RIGHT HERE 😭

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Zionists occupying Gaza is itself anti-semitic, as the occupied residents are mostly semitic peoples. And there is absolutely a racial component.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

PTB

Zionists are on the wrong side of history

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

From the sidebar:

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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[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I mean... it's an illegitimate state after all.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It can't be racism unless you first admit it's an ethnostate.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

That's actually a really good catch.

If Israel is an ethnostate, then saying "Israel did something bad" is now by default saying "Jews here did something bad."

And it works for their "anything calling us out is antisemitic" and the people who think being Anti-Zionism are antisemitic.

It helps deflect any claim. South Africa wishes it had that idea.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago (4 children)

PTB. .world's stances continue to be completely indistinguishable from State Department propaganda. I guess it was only a matter of time until the mods started cracking down on anti-Zionism. Fully expect to see them ban someone for promoting BDS next.

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

.world is a festering mess of liberalism, you say?

Colour me surprised.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The place that banned all criticism of Biden/Harris and then wondered where all the critics went, justifying their bad beliefs that all of them were bots? Yeah I wonder why its a shitlib utopia.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don’t actually recall the .world mods or admins themselves calling people bots, and I’ve recently seen them removing comments containing bot accusations.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

There is this same body of users who got all up in the 196 forced migration and subsequent drama with the blahaj instance. It is the same group of people obsessed with everything outside American politics being russian bots and chinese spies. The same folks are constantly trying to perpetuate instance wars on political propaganda grounds.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The admins don't, but a lot of the userbase used to (and still does) calls anyone who mildly criticized Harris as a secret Russian asset/bot, or a useful idiot who bought into the campaign.

When Biden was bad at the debate and I said "Man he looks so unfit for this" I was called a russian bot. I reported the comments and nothing got removed or banned.

And I recently got banned from !politicalmemes@lemmy.world because I defended myself from a moronic shitlib troll. The troll didn't get banned, I did.

lot of the userbase used t (and still does) calls anyone who mildly critcized Harris as a secret Russian asset/bot

Yep. As ya remember, I was called a bot and accused of being russian, every single post where I criticized the corrupt duopoly. Even tho I voted socialist! lmao

.world got what they deserved in the election. They were just clueless about how bad of a take they had on things.

OP: you were right. This is a case of PTB for sure.

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