this post was submitted on 14 May 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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- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
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- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
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You're a Blahaj user, she has a responsibility to moderate your posts and comments according to the instance rules no matter where you post. Hence why any reports on your comments go to your instance admin, as well as the community moderators and the instance admins of the community.
This is how things run on the fediverse to more equally share the load of moderation around. Instances that refuse to do this labour for their own users end up shunned, such as Hexbear refusing to rein in the actions of its own users.
I didn't post anything that needed to be removed. Anti-zionism doesn't need to be removed.
Nah sorry, I'm leaning heavily towards you being a troll now :(
That's okay, I'm leaning towards you being a bad girl. Mummy says I don't have to listen to bad girls who say protesting genocide is trolling.
That's kind of rude of you to call me a bad girl, I haven't acted in bad faith. I also probably go out and actually protest genocide on the streets more than you do for what that's worth ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well it's because you broke the rules, and they're good rules. I don't like being called a troll and you called me a troll. I felt insulted. You're doing it again now, saying you're better than me because you don't like me.
You're the one that broke the rules though?
I do actually like you, we've had some good interactions, but then you called Ada a zionist?? If you're this opposed to her trying to keep the peace between instances by preventing rage bait, no matter the topic, maybe a different instance would be better for you? Like I've said, I'm very anti-zionist but I agree with her moderation here.
Wasn't rage bait and didn't break the rules. The europe community doesn't have a rule against anti-zionism. Blahaj doesn't have a rule against checking if remote mods abuse their power. Didn't break the peace, the conflict was over in minutes and Ada never had any work to do about it.
And besides,
There is no peace while they're killing children. I didn't disturb the peace. I disturbed the war. For a few seconds. If everyone disturbed the war for a few seconds, there wouldn't be a war. They wouldn't get away with it.
I don't understand why it makes you angry when I say these things. When I say it's fine and Ada didn't have to do anything. I see your anger and it's the protective kind. Good girls get angry to protect others. But who are you protecting from me saying that Ada is safe? Nothing bad happened to her and nothing bad was going to happen. Why is that scary?
You literally questioned if Ada is supporting zionism in the OP :(
I support your ideals, but if you want to disturb the war you should get out to protests in your community if you're able too.
I questioned her because she timed me out for making zionists angry. Turns out, she thought I might be a troll. But there's no such thing as trolls who pretend to be anti-zionist. She was getting scared of nothing. She wasn't in danger. She created her own stress by punishing anti-zionism. The way for you to protect her is to tell her to stop being so scared.
I don't want the instance swamped with pro-zionists that make her job hard though...
No risk of that. The community mod removed the post very quickly. I thought that would probably happen. If they didn't, no problem. It was a very hard post to argue with. Zionists don't have arguments for it. Not even bad ones. There was no danger. Worst thing that could possibly happen is Ada overreacting.
I don't think she overreacted by simply timing you out...
If she'd done nothing, nothing would have happened. Nothing was wrong. She thought something was wrong and she made me think something was wrong. I had to ask if she was a zionist. If she hadn't cared about making zionists angry, it wouldn't have been unclear. She was afraid of zionists and made conflict with an anti-zionist to avoid conflict with zionists. Conflict that wasn't going to happen.
They trick us into arguing with each other using fear. They manipulate us with the threat of violence. We argue with each other because we don't want to fight them. It's not good. No more fear please. We can be strong. We can be good and brave girls.
Okay, I'll be brave with you.
Thank you
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Pets your head
I bet Mummy's proud of you