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:

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.

Rules

Post only about bans or other sanctions that you have received from a mod or admin.
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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Apparently calling for the use of force to defend your country from invaders is "advocating violence". Also: being anti-American in general is against the rules (aussie.zone)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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All from in this thread in [email protected] about a chant at a British music festival where an artist said "death, death to the IDF".

After other users were quoting that chant in the comments and had comments removed and banned, the hero of our story, @[email protected] (appearing as "acargitz") pointed out that under international law, fighting an occupying force is legitimate. But apparently not under world news rules, as their removed comments and the many explanations from mods make clear in the thread.

Equally against the rules is the call for the eradication of an organisation or business, even without an explicit call to violence against individual members of the business.

In the same thread: user @[email protected] had comments removed for being anti-American "(again)", though I couldn't see the first time. It's not even clear to me how the removed comments were anti-American.

Bonus points for the "DC Comics" removal reason. Though this seems to be incompetence, rather than malice.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

The modlogs where you banned @ensign_[email protected] for proving you wrong with citations from sources you considered equal?

Or the modlogs where you removed comments of people calling out the mod actions?

Or the modlogs where people had the right idea about not enjoying genocide being removed because only robots care about the deaths of people?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Ensign_Crab was banned for repeated trolling, sealioning, and slapfighting with many users across both [email protected] and [email protected]

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=536057

Again, nothing of value was lost.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Trolling meaning they proved you wrong and stood ground against whitewashing genocide.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, they were repeatedly trolling other users and instigating slapfights that we had to deal with over and over again. Check the modlog. I made sure to remove every single trolling, sealioning, slapfighting comment.

They're a shitheel and it's good they're gone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I didn't gripe publicly about your reddit-style power trip because it's pointless to gripe about mods.

I can't say that badmouthing me behind my back is surprising.

And since the comment you got super butthurt about is magically absent from the modlogs, I'll reproduce it here from memory, as disagreeing with the tender sensibilities of the pro-genocide center of the democratic party isn't verboten here:

In response to a comment in which you told the absolute total lie that biden never sold weapons for genocide, I replied that everyone knew that netanyahu was committing genocide. Even a pudding-brained decrepit mummy like biden knew. biden sold him weapons anyway in direct contravention of the Leahy law.

But what I really suspect pissed you off is when I reported your lie as the misinformation it was, that you KNEW it was, and that you intentionally promulgated anyway.

EDIT: I couldn't see it in the modlog because I had blocked the community I was banned from for opposing the genocide jordanlund lied to defend. The gist is reproduced above and it's close enough. If anyone knows how to link to a particular modlog entry, please let me know.