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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:

  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Rules


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.


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Edit: you would have to be a complete fucking moron to think that that was a serious comment.

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[–] _cryptagion@quokk.au 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (11 children)

I know there was some claims that DOGE sent information to some servers in Russia, but that's also unsubstantiated, if I remember correctly. So technically, the mod is correct. And since it's a news community, it makes sense they wouldn't allow gossip, in order to combat misinformation.

That being said, it wouldn't surprise me at all if it was true.

[–] marsza@lemmy.cafe -1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Brrrooooooo…. It’s a joke.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The joke is on you on this occasion, because the mod of that community is an absurdist who bans people for nonsensical reasons all the time. So maybe have a laugh about it and move on, since you met a fellow comedian. I mean technically it's a PTB situation but it's also quite funny once you stop expecting the community to be serious.

[–] marsza@lemmy.cafe 1 points 9 hours ago

You would thing since news@ is a pretty important community name, the admins would discourage that behavior. I guess that instance is to be avoided.

[–] _cryptagion@quokk.au 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That doesn't really have anything to do with whether or not it's misinformation tho, does it?

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