This mod does this kind of thing... a lot. Search for "qrstuv" and take a look at other mentions of them in this community
Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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.
Relevant comms
wouldn't this be a troll mod aka the definition of power tripping?
It would seem it to me, yeah. Enforcing stringent rules that are, as far as I can tell, completely unwritten is just manufacturing reasons to ban people. Between that, the bizarre Garfield comic edits, the fact that a solid half of the account's entire history is "thank you for creating [descriptor] content!", and the near-total refusal to actually talk to anyone, I have no fucking idea what's going on with that account
Found the zionist
Every post I see in that community is locked, and almost all of them are by the same user. The whole community is a power trip.
I don't know if that's PTB or the mod being, well, I want to insult their intelligence, but I won't. So it's PTB.
The comment may have been short, but it conveyed the idea effectively in that length. It's also very true.
Content censorship
Israel must be feeling the pressure, fucking Zionist acolytes have been spazzing extra hard recently.
Reddit get sanitized but they let some discussions and the normie is getting big mad. Feel like Luigi situation where both sides are just done with doing left right circle jerl lol
Israel playing up DC incident is back firing lol
qrstuv does not appear to be a Zionist, though
No I don't think so either, this type of random ban is kind of their MO though. Maybe we need a YBP category for You've Been Pranked? :p
Was this on a post about Israeli goons firing at diplomats in the West Bank?
I knew immediately that's what this was about. Fucking Zionists.