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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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- 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.
- 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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Woah glad you caught that, just gave a ping to sopuli.xyz's admins on the page hopefully they'll respond soon and deal with that.
He has a few other alts as well, but it's not exactly my day job to keep detailed notes. However, I am sick of his shit and that dude is a fucking cockroach.
TBH, I don't think it's really against any rules to dup a username across instances as SMCF is actually on .world. However, this is being done with malice and should be addressed. UM must have been holding a grudge from when he was banned from .world.
Honestly, I think the issue is that it really is a job, and there isn't anyone who's really well-positioned to take charge of it.
Any system which allows easy, anonymous account creation is going to be subject to some level of abuse. Any system which does that, and also is distributed among multiple instances with admins who don't always see eye-to-eye on things, is going to be absolutely helpless in the face of even a very rudimentary attempt at abuse, and anyone who wants to will be able to run rings around the admins and just kind of run around doing whatever they want. Telling people "just block the obnoxious people on whatever new accounts they make when they get banned" obviously isn't the answer, but it's what people fall back on because it is the only thing that can be relied upon to work.
I think Bluesky's idea of federating out block lists (basically, as I understand it) is probably the most straightforward non-awful way. You don't want to make every new user encounter every obnoxious person and learn, one by one, who they are and that they need to block them. That way lies madness.
I'm fine with that. In fact, I'd love you all to just block me rather than create new thread all the time trying to ban me from the fediverse--simply because you don't like news articles that I post. lol
Please, please, please work on that.
As I have always said, block me and ignore me. But banning is just silencing disagreeing opinions.
I have a right to say what I want. You have the right to ignore me. But I am allowed to be here.
Not sure how much clearer I can make it. I would love to be able to block and move on, that's what I did. You are committed to not respecting the block, taking actions from new alts which will send me notifications, and then lying in this strange fashion about it. I understand why you're pretending that's not what you did. But I'm happy to provide proof in the form of screenshots or anything else. Or, any admin can verify it.
You are allowed to be here, sure. Everyone is. You're not allowed to violate the rules of the space. And, when someone's sufficiently unrepentant about not respecting the rules of the space, they lose their right to be here. Your commitment to going beyond "saying what you want" and instead, among other things, starting to harass and irritate other users deliberately when they exercise their right to say what they want, is exactly what keeps losing you accounts. That's the system protecting itself.
I'm not pretending anything. Dude, I have no way of knowing of how you block me or don't block me or what names you have blocked or what instances you have blocked.
You have taken your "minor" annoyance and made it this huge thing like I am fucking stalking you which is false.
You have all the fucking stats on me and where I post and how I post, then you can fucking see how little you and I actually interact.
I alternate through my accounts on different instances regularly. Each instance has a different vibe. That's the fucking fediverse. I'm sorry you don't like that I can do that.
So for the love of whatever gods you like, please come up with a #wildcard script that will just block every instance of my name. I have no reason to follow you. But you post a LOT. So our paths will cross.
I have never harassed you. Stop saying that. Responding to a post that you made in a public forum is not harassing. You post in communities that i post it. That's the fucking internet.
IF I WANTED TO BLOCK/BAN EVADE, I WOULD COME UP WITH A DIFFERENT USERNAME TO DO IT! Which have not done.
Which brings up another subject, so I have a request. Since you seem to know where and how I post and every fucking second of the day I am online, can you please please please, address all the people who say that I am multiple people, that I live in russia, that I post 24 hours a day, and can you inform Draconic [email protected] and [email protected] that I'm not the alts that they say I am? lol
Motherfuck, you all have gone batshit crazy over my name. You all have spent more time talking about me than the 10 seconds it would have taken to just fucking block me.
So use your little script program thingy, write some sort of wildcard name search script, put my name in it and boom! Every single instance of my username will be blocked even when I create a new one, and you can stop obsessing about me.
I'm not leaving Lemmy. I have just as much right as you do to be here. Even if I am on a 100 instances. Write your little wildcard name blocker and be done with it.
And again, I'm not the fucking point of your original post that this thread is about! This is all off-topic. lol