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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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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev -5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Why does this kind of stuff only ever go one direction?

You're joking, right? If it only went one direction then none of the posts calling them out for anything would've happened in the first place.

You can still criticize someone's beliefs while respecting them by refusing to refer to them by terms they don't want. Case in point, this comment: https://quokk.au/comment/1473591

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well, but my point is that these people whose logic is "I own this community, and so therefore I own the people within it, so whatever I think they should be allowed and not is the word of God, QED," I feel like those people wouldn't be amenable to the same logic if it were themselves in the peon position and some other person in the "word of God" position. Like if they were banned for voting the wrong way on comments within YPTB, it all of a sudden wouldn't be a totally logical and understandable thing to have happen.

The fact that YPTB doesn't work that way, and we can just kind of talk things out here (most of the time), doesn't really change that. They're still defending a system where people who think differently cannot criticize them (at least not in a direct reply in the same domain).

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev -4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm literally not talking about any of that, I'm just saying it's childish that people are intentionally going out of their way to bully someone by calling them bro when they asked people not to. That's it. That's all I had a problem with.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Why is banning someone for voting in a way you don't like, and calling them "toxic," not bullying?

That's it. That's what I had a problem with. A lot of cultures recognize the right to self-defense, and it applies rhetorically as well as physically. And just like in the physical realm, sometimes people recognize the response as extreme when they don't see their initial provocation as "extreme" in the same way, because the people they were attacking were bad people, and so basically they deserved what they got, unlike me who didn't even do anything wrong.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 4 hours ago

I never said that wasn't bullying.