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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I have the inaugural ban from altmedia.house. Things they like: Mint Press News, Chris Hedges, Tucker Carlson. Things they hate: "disinformation", apparently. (ponder.cat)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The affinity for Tucker Carlson (as well as the other things) is from the sidebar. Apparently their familiarity with Western media is enough to know he is pro-Russian, but not enough to realize that expressing on a leftist forum that they like him, will make them glow a little bit.

The original issue was that they posted a story from Mint Press News, and I dropped them a friendly note that it was Russian propaganda, more or less assuming they had included it innocently (since there was nothing wrong at all that I can see with the particular story, or in fact with any of the stories in that community.)

Things escalated. Fun quotes by the mod from the ensuing conversation:

It's actually not from "New Knowledge," it's from a US Senate report, but I doubt that will make this person believe it any more.

The real disinformation was inside us all this time. Of course, I was banned. Reason for the ban?

Clearly, their disinformation policy is lock tight.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. RT and Sputnik and making up sources completely and making up random shit that got a journalist deported, make for the best of any newspaper. Clearly. Such things are to be emulated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

"Oh look at my cool Wikipedia page which is completely written like a slander piece in a way no other Newspaper is and all the sources refer to other websites"!

How are the Israeli mass rapes going which the mainstream Western newspapers reported to have seen video evidence of by the way? Israel said they suddenly have no evidence of it all. Why are their Wikipedia pages not filled with how they spread massive lies about WMD's in Iraq?

The Syria case is a peculiar one which may or may not be true but no conclusive evidence has ever been brought forward. The reason the chemical attack case is extremely sketchy is that America declared that to be their red line to start bombing Syria. Then "suddenly" a massive chemical attack happens and America starts attacking the Assad government which was very convenient to its opponents.

Assad was certainly no nice guy, but the recent Syrian takeover by Al-Qaeda and its instant capitulation to America, promise to normalize with Israel and tireless work to arrest all Palestinian resistance groups and fight Hezbollah only makes it pretty obvious that these groups fighting Assad were no more than American proxies doing their exact bidding.