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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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- 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.
- 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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So from "excellent" to "still excellent, but lower." Mine was high 700s at one point and I couldn't get above a $4k limit and I tried.
You're not from the US, are you.
Which is fine, but why would you be pretending to be? Why not just say "I'm not really familiar with what normal living expenses and credit limits are in the US, or how the credit and banking system works there, because I don't live there and never have, which is why I never made any kind of post about how my US credit score is right now"?
Semi-expecting for me to get some kind of heat from the moderators for this line of inquiry BTW lol. That is honestly the only explanation I can see for it, though. Maybe I am wrong and there is some other explanation.
You tell me.
Believe whatever you want to believe. I briefly considered posting my credit score history graph from my bank, but I really have no reason to try to prove anything to you and you'd probably excuse it with something else like "why are you lying about missed payments?" or "you could've easily faked this graph" or some other explanation. I shared my experience with the credit score system (yes, in the US) and that's that.
You don't owe me any explanation or proof of anything, no. I'm mostly raising an issue for the awareness of anyone else reading, and giving you a chance to explain and defend your comments and claims if you want to.
Cool. While you're digging around my comment history, why not dig up a comment where I'm a tankie saying tankie things? That would be a lot more relevant.
Phillip is a defender who lies for PugJesus, the person who removed your comment.
He has literally been caught lying to defend Pug in the last 24 hours.
It's too late for that! You lied about having missed payments; now you're condemned to "YDI" 😤
I don't actually think people should get banned for being tankies. My provisional reaction to the actual moderation question is PTB, just because they're either censoring you for your viewpoint (which they shouldn't do), or else using that as insulting shorthand for some other more malicious behavior (which they also shouldn't do, although it's more understandable.) I don't care enough about that question to look into it all that much, though. You apparently casually lying about being from the US and also having some unknown-to-me kinds of views which brought you into conflict with those specific people is a lot more interesting to me than whatever moderation event, honestly.