this post was submitted on 12 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.
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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It's because you continue to argue with users even after they've asked you to stop. You've had multiple reports, and you've also made multiple reports of your own.
If you're reporting the person you're arguing with, and they're also reporting you, then it's not very productive, is it? So to satisfy your urge to argue, I engaged with you until you said nonsense about what Marx said, and I countered with a direct quote from him. But despite that, you ignored it and changed your phrasing, and made a thread to brigade, as you often do.
And all bans are temporary anyway, even now you're unbanned and free to resume arguing. Bans on the community work with a warning first, then a ban, but bans only last 24 hours, and each subsequent infraction doubles the amount. You may request an unban at any time, which you never did. No other community on Lemmy is as lenient. None of your comments are removed. I also get a lot of DMs and a lot of harassment from Tankies, they've even tried to dox me a few times. MOG is the only active community that stands against them, and I've seen every method they use, which you are using. From the community's perspective, you are one of these tankies, and as moderator, I have to put the community first before a single user.
You also messaged me 15 different times to continue arguing, often within the same 24 hours of your ban. What do you expect me to do when you ignore your ban, just to argue directly? What do you expect me to do when you report every user you're arguing with? What do you expect me to do when you don't know what no means? You can't control yourself. As I said multiple times, you're not looking to argue but instead to harass, which you are right now doing by making this thread.
You are a sealion. You were banned for harassing multiple users. And the fact you report them when they argue back shows that you don't actually care to engage, but just to sling mud. -- Again, you're unbanned with no comments removed
Interesting.
Give me even one example of this, i did it to you because you falsely accused me of something, which of course, i have the right to explain myself.
Yeah, I did report you before I realized you were a moderator, because you were arguing in terrible faith.
You countered me with a direct quote that had nothing to do with what I said... that did not in fact contradict anything I said. I said marx did not give a specific implementation of communism, the quote you gave INCLUDES A STATE, and is thus, obviously not an implementation of communism. He never claims to give an implementation of communism, he's just giving a description of a country that might someday become communist, not one that is currently. It's well-known in circles of marxist scholars that marx never gave a specific implementation of communism.
I did not ignore it, I explained precisely why it was incorrect, and i'm obviously right about this, it's very straightforward logic
at the end of history there will be no state, communism is the end of history, therefore that is not an implementation of communism because it has a state doing things.
Yes, because you falsely accused me of lying and I wanted to clarify that I did not in fact lie, and that anybody could easily see that you are arguing in bad faith. I wanted you to unban me because my ban was not justified.
I have only ever reported you.
Retract your false accusations, man up to the fact that you were wrong.
Nope, this thread is looking for justice to you harrassing ME. I gave a friendly informational post about communism, you harrassed me for it, anybody can see that. That's why you're universally getting a PTB.
That's false, I was banned for this interaction with you, point to the other users i harassed. Give even one example.
You got reported because your arguments were so bad that I genuinely believed you were trolling me, only for me to be incredibly shocked that you are a moderator.
I have engaged with EVERY SINGLE claim that has been made in a civil and calm manner. Find even one example of a point i have ignored or not addressed, i challenge you.
I think sealioning is a nonsense excuse you're peddling because you want your arguments to just go your way by force. You didn't even go "don't these points contradict?" and give me the opportunity to explain myself, you just instantly banned me. I think that's a very convenient excuse for you. A sealion wouldn't reply to all of your points openly, and directly, they would avoid your points and bring up random unrelated nonsense. I did not ignore anything you said, and you falsely accused me of things and harrassed me, that's why you're here, for being a PTB. And this is easily and demonstrably NOT your first time here.
edit: you massively edited your comment so i'm going to just address this:
that's literally the first request I made to which you said
When I requested I didn't realize it wasn't permanent.
i'm curious why you'd say that if i never requested an unban, but sure.
and yeah I get dm's can be easily faked but honestly just think about it what are the odds that I didn't request an unban...
I have not done anything that anybody dealing with a PTB wouldn't do.
I have not made a single pro-authoritarian post in my entire accounts history, feel free to look, i'm not a tankie, regardless of any biases you and your users hold. Also, if you and your users hold the view that i'm a tankie and can't even point to one instance of me being authoritarian, that's pretty embarrassing. An entire community of tankie haters that can't even identify one?