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.
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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Banned from !palestine@lemm.ee for disagreeing that Trump facilitated a ceasefire in Gaza (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Although personally in favor of Palestinian independence and critical of war crimes committed by Israel in its siege of Gaza, I attempted to explain in a back-and-forth discussion with a user (only afterwards learning was one of the community's two moderators) why protest voting in the 2024 election to "punish" the democrats in favor of the republicans harmed the ultimate interest of reigning in Israeli violence in Palestine.

To further emphasize the damage caused by such a protest vote, I argued that not only is Palestine worse off with Trump elected instead of Harris, but as are a myriad of other social issues. The other user disagreed, arguing that Trump's return to office facilitated the ceasefire, rather than my argument that Netanyahu deliberately delayed it to help Trump get elected.

After my fourth reply post in a reply chain that stemmed from my initial reply to the moderator's comment, I was banned from !palestine@lemm.ee. Having at no point advocated in favor of the violence perpetuated by Israel in Gaza, I think the ban was unjustified, and demonstrates a bad precedent for maintaining echo chambers of moderator opinions, rather than communities that foster discussion.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well... you might have a point. Supporting Palestine without supporting Hamas isn't precisely what you said, though. You said "terrorism" from the Palestinian side. I think without carefully qualifying that to mean that you're only talking about events like October 7th, it's easy for someone to assume you're using the Israeli definition, where any type of resistance at all is "terrorism."

Like I say, I agree with you on this. In any other community I think it would be a clear-cut PTB case of censorship. I'm just saying that when dead family members are involved you have to be extremely careful what you present and how, because it's going to be the easiest thing in the world for people to get heated at you for it.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Consider me uneducated.

I've always thought "one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter" is worth considering.

Oct 7th is hard to parse as a justified retaliation. But what does a justified attack even look like?

Is Palestine's only moral choice to stand their ground?

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 3 days ago

It's just a shitty situation. They don't have the power to be able to save themselves. And no one from the outside is coming to help them, while they're dying one by one, families and soldiers, mothers and kids.

Killing, raping, and kidnapping a bunch of people at a music festival is never going to make you a freedom fighter. Not least of which because Israel is going to be ecstatic that you did it, and milk it as far as they can to get away with what they wanted to do anyway, and then hope you do it again so they can "retaliate" and keep cycling the machine. But I can't really answer your question about what I think they should do. I think someone should come from outside, and help them. There's a whole damn world that has that option.