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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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Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
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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.
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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A discussion of moderation and other such conversation-management. Mod bans me, the post, a selection of my replies. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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

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Yes, I think that the idea of having a cop hovering over my conversation, dictating who can talk and what they can say, is abhorrent. I admit it.

So I asked. Discussion happened. Some of it hot. Some of it useful. It was going places.

Then the mod of asklemmy bans the whole show.

The self-awareness of a paramecium, I tell you.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wow, your entire history is just a handful of comments from a week ago and then deleted, deleted, deleted, deleted.... deleted...

[+] [email protected] -9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. I can't tell if it's a vindictive mod or a server bug.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Usually it's either the mods, ot the user being annoying people. Maybe you were too agitated and heated for a general purpose and casual community like asklemmy. Idk, I'm starting to make assumptions. I'd have to look at the modlog.

Edit: Done. The deleted comments have been purged, so I can't tell. From the few remaining comments I'd say you do things like swear and get hostile... So I'm not sure who's at fault here. Being overly confrontational isn't accepted behaviour in AskLemmy. You'd need to find a different place if that's what happened here.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nope, didn't swear. Didn't get hostile. Didn't get overly confrontational.

Getting a rational conversation around here is like herding cats.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah that's your perspective. The mod obviously disagrees. And the thing with subjective perspectives, or he-said-she-said is, I can't tell...

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[+] [email protected] -13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yep, you can't tell.

Lemmy sucks. Social media sucks. This mob of smugnorant bobblehead zombies sucks big fat rubber donkey dick.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Your account is 11 days old. Based on this comment, you're a troll.

spoiler

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

I'm not saying you're wrong, BUT every account has to be new for a while. I was called a troll and a russian bot just because I was new.

Now I'm still called that, but at least it's not just because my account is new. :)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Just find a place where you fit. Not everyone is compatible. And people have a different idea of the tone of conversation they like. Especially if they do it for fun. That's not anyone's fault. If everyone is against you, I'd say it's possible that everyone is wrong. Or you yourself are just at the wrong place. You're making it way too easy for yourself by just blaming everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Admire your patience

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

It's late and I'm watching some boring talkshow. There's nothing better to do around here 🙃

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

For the context "Do we need administrators and moderators to manage our conversations for us?"

The modlog tells "Trolling/Sealioning".

You should be able to show your posts and comments (they are still visible to you even though the post was removed). Without that, it's difficult to give an opinion.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

The AskLemmy post and many of the replies were phrased more like it was just bitching/moaning that all of Lemmy isn't some freeze-peach free-for-all rather than any kind of conversation starter.

OP, YDI.

I'm not gonna screencap the entire thread, but this gives you a picture since OP doesn't feel like sharing and wants to be all "trust me, bro, I was CeNSORed!"

OP is also alt of @[email protected] who was instance-banned for bigotry (I don't have the context for that one, that's just what the admin wrote in the modlog), and brought some great hits to c/ShowerThoughts such as "99% of the people here are dumb as a box of rocks"

Bonus from their older, now-banned alt:

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Oh. Oh. OP wants moderators and admins to leave filtering out CP to the individual users.

Enough said. Even 4chan doesn't play around with that shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

lol that post from the alt, is there an iamverysmart community? Would fit well there.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hmm. I linked to the removed post (as it appears in my user history). And it is visible to me. Is it not visible to you?

The modlog says "trolling/sealioning" for my ban. It doesn't say anything about the removal of the post. Or the removal of a some of my replies. So I can't get a link there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

And it is visible to me. Is it not visible to you?

It's not as it has been removed. You should have a "removed" green label next the the title.

For us it's

You can just post screenshots of your comments.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

People want spaces about a certain topic. It makes sense that people then "censor" things that don't fit said topic.

Even if that topic is "Be kind".

Just as with "free speech" in real life, online there are also limitations. If you disagree with those limitations, you have the freedom to go elsewhere. If you find that nowhere fits the kind of place you want to be in, make your own.

Just as people don't have to tolerate being around others mouthing off in their face, so to can they take steps to avoid/prevent that online.

In my opinion, people that can't fathom that concept are the ones most in need of that oversight.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I honestly think that most of us are so used to being monitored and told what to do/say/think that we prefer it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Anyone can create their own instance at any time if they want.

Or most instances allow the creation of a community, subject to the instance rules.

People can say whatever they like inside of their own homes, it's when they go into other people's homes that they need to play by the rules of the homeowner, or else gtfo.

I haven't clicked any links here or looked at the modlog, I was just responding to your comment in the general sense.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So you have no knowledge of the conversation but you see fit to offer accusations all the same.

It's this level of awareness and maturity that I've come to expect from lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Judging from all of your comments here, I'd highly suggest that if you keep smelling shit everywhere you go, maybe you should check your shoes.

I seriously can't fathom coming into a place, badmouthing everyone already there, and then being surprised when they react negatively.

Also, if you want a place without moderators overseeing everything with a fine toothed comb, there are countless *chan sites with minimal moderation (only removal of heinously illegal content). You might seriously have a better experience on one of them if you find lemmy stifling. There's even a number of them now that allow users to make their own boards for whatever niche topic they want.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Moderation is normal for any group. Sometimes there's explicit rules and active moderation. Sometimes, they're implied, as with a basic friend group.

Going into a community and expecting absolute free speech is not reasonable.