this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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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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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.
- 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 see what you did there :)
I removed your comment because it's out of topic and it's bringing up a completely other drama to spike controversy. I.e. you're trolling.
While we're on the topic of modding in this thread, GrammarPolice got banned, but it doesn't look like the comment that they were banned for has been removed. Is this intentional?
If there's a good-faith counter-aguments already on that thread and might leave the originating comment up so that their effort is not lost.
I was talking specifically about the giant ascii art with a profane curse as the only text.
But I just had a look and it seems like it was removed, but that the removal hasn't federated to my instance properly. Dammit, I thought the recent update had fixed LW's federation problems.
Ah yeah, the federation of this stuff is kinda weird. Maybe it's because I removed it after I banned them.
In any case, that drama was off-topic, doesn't seem like powertripping to remove it.
You were off-topic and trolling. You were not discussing, you were bellyaching and bringing up another drama-laden topic that has been discussed to death and had multiple threads about it locked in this very comm. Now stop whinging and touch grass ffs. I just removed one of your comments. didn't even ban you.
No, you started the drag discussion all over again and I don't want every fucking topic in PTB to be about that person and the neopronoun discussion. Use a different comparison next time. I'm sure you can do it, I believe in you.
You didn't see it, but, surprise surprise, we might know something you don't since we're moderating all of this shite. Maybe take a hint.
yo bpr that fool
Exactly
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