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
Major PTB and hypocrisy. Accelerationists/anti-electoralists are fucking LARPer anarchists, at best, who buy into the same sort of political religion that tankies do. Refusing to use any tools at ones disposal to to stop fascists is pure performative bullshit. Being not just willing but enthusiastic about sacrificing vulnerable people on the altar of socio-political changes that have never in history come from such acts is amoral and in direct conflict with attempting to improve the human condition and establish any sustainable anarchic society.
And before they pile on and say "oh but liberal democracy is fundamentally unjust", well, the world isn't fucking black and white. Making lives worse, by all historical data, just increases human suffering. Want to take to the streets and do some direct action and use other tools of political change? Do it. If you're going to talk the talk, walking the fucking walk or shut the fuck up with the performative claims of moral superiority because all evidence shows that you have done nothing to assuage human suffering but opened the door for those who want to cause more of it.
Also, banning someone for dissent in a comm apparently dedicated to anarchism? That is not behavior in line with anarchic organization and is pure abuse of power over others to give oneself an artificially louder voice. Best to hang up that mod jacket until you learn to stop being a fucking poser.
ETA: Sorry for the aggressive tone but I'm pretty tired of people being too far up themselves to care about how their political actions effect others and even more tired of faux anarchists abusing their power to silence others' voices.
An anarchist not respecting free speech and enforcing rules on a forum is hilarious to me.
As we all know, anarchism is no rules, and the less rules there are, the more anarchist it is.
This community is anarchist-flavored. Reactionary takes won't be tolerated.
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This is an anarchist comm. You don't have to be an anarchist to post, but you should at least understand what anarchism actually is. We're not here to educate you.
But I think I should make the rules more explicit about liberal electoralism brainrot.
EDIT:
Here's a more explicit rule for you. but as always the FAFO is in effect for the next time you think something is not explicit enough.
No shaming people for being anti-electoralism. This should be obvious from the above point but apparently we need to make it obvious to the turbolibs who can't control themselves. You have the rest of lemmy to moralize.
- Goes inside an anarchist space
- Calls all anarchists stupid for not voting for fascists
- Gets banned for breaking the rules
Yep, it's a PugJesus moment. "Vaguely leftist".
So much for "I don't get a thrill out of debates." I wonder how long PJ will complain about db0 like he did with blahaj.
No shaming people for being anti-electoralism. This should be obvious from the above point but apparently we need to make it obvious to the turbolibs who can’t control themselves. You have the rest of lemmy to moralize.
Love this!
Don't feel too bad, I've run into this shit in real life while trying to get leftists into action. Not even voting, but doing direct things. The idea then was that any action not tearing down the establishment was wasted.
My response? Great to fucking hear that, let's do it. Their response? Leave, you fucking plant.
People are fucking morons.
morally
smh.
voting against fascism
LOL YDI. Liberalism works in cooperation with fascism. All of your politician heroes are working with fascists right now. They're in the same buildings doing the same things. This whole "voting against fascism" when you're talking about a genocidal prosecutor is gross AF.
PTB
Despite this being one of the things i disagree with Pug on, voting for Kamala Harris was objectively the correct choice last election.
The way we escape the Duopoly is to abandon it, but there were no viable 3rd party choices.
Also none of what I said so far can justify the moderation decisions made. Censoring this kind of speech is a bad look for the anarcho-communist community.
Despite this being one of the things i disagree with Pug on, voting for Kamala Harris was objectively the correct choice last election.
What is dangerous about Pug's behavior here is even though myself and others have repeatedly provided examples for how prominent leftists and leftists in general advocated voting for Kamala Harris, if not enthusiastically to others every single one I know explained in clear terms why even though they didn't really like Kamala and were against the Palestinian Genocide Kamala refused to acknowledge or do anything about differently than Biden (at least she wouldn't give any serious indication of it in her campaign... like at all... zero percent)... and yet Pug Jesus spitfires memes and comments that keep trying to portray leftism as this death cult obsessed with intellectual purity.
No, Pug is in denial about the cruelty of their own assumptions that they didn't realize until it was too late, and I am tired of them bringing the rest of us down for it and throwing mud on leftism in general in the US.
Either the protest vote was powerless and doomed to fail in the beginning or it was the dues ex machina that thwarted the wonders of neoliberalism that were just about to be bestowed upon us until we sinned... it is an emotionally compelling story and that is why it is scary... because it isn't supported by the evidence, at all.
Delacruz was electable, if we voted for her.
I'm gonna be honest this is my first time hearing that name
Third party presidential candidate from... I firget which party, the kinda-socialistish one i think. I heard someone responding to a lib saying we should have fallen in line behind their ghoul with turning the argument around, and stole the fuck out of it. Its a great reminder that 'unity' does not mean 'do whatever the libs want at all times'.
Oh yeah deltarune has been great, just dropped this week!
I think the thing a lot of people are missing is that abandoning the duopoly, or any other major political reform, is NOT a "just vote in this one election bro I swear" deal. These things take time. Sometimes a lot of time. And until that time where it happens, you need to spend each election thinking "how is this going to affect progress towards our goal". And allowing trump to win did nothing but push us closer to having a republican monopoly. See all those news articles of local government republicans in power suddenly starting to host town hall meetings that are republican only.