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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.

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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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When having to admit their fault the moderator started looking for arbitrary reasons to ban me. Such as not using the exact terminology of the Amnesty report. Which does not call it genocide.


The moderator is also watching user votes, and calling out people not voting with him.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I had been avoiding !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works for around a month. I had previously unsubscribed from it as it seemed to get a bit unhinged.

I had to go back there in the last few days for a post about Piefed default defederation list.

People pointed me out that !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works doesn't moderate comments such as

If it was russia or China starving people in Gaza, tankie roach would claim that “genocide isn’t happening”, “the BIA is seeding fake reports about starvation!” and “this is the best deradicalization program in history!”.

What a bunch of lying, disgusting degenerates.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/20140833/

I reached out to the mod, he told me to tell the hexbear people to check their own comments as well https://hexbear.net/search?q=cockroaches&type=Comments&listingType=Local&page=1&sort=New

I found one comment equating democrats to cockroaches

If the democrats start breaking the rules right back at them it's a whole new game they aren't equipped to play. They might adapt, they're cockroaches, but it could be a bridge too far. I think both sides are banking on the other side bluffing. But they themselves are bluffing.

https://hexbear.net/post/5850141/6412496

Maybe there needs to be another community to just report toxic users, with a diverse mod team, this two-way war (especially as both communities can't talk to each other due to defederation/community ban) just seems turn into a long term conflict where all parts assume the worse of the other.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

That piefed Hexbear defederation post is weird. They are basically arguing that defederating from Hexbear by default is not a block.

Devs should keep away from default blocks unless it is objectively illegal or spam. Imagine if the Lemmy devs started blacklisting sh.itjustworks by default. That would cause some outrage. But they see no problem doing it the other way around

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hexbear's post is weird, acting like a blocklist is the same as hardcoding a "1-way defederation" as they try to frame it. They are such scummy manipulators.

[–] karn@anarchist.nexus 5 points 1 week ago

Hexbear lying? Unheard of! Next you'll tell me they'll just make shit up in favor of their favorite red colored hellhole.

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