38 points

Man, your post has really brought out the CCP shills. It’s fascinating to watch people go, “Nuh-uh! China doesn’t do any of that!”

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I learned a dozen countries are all in on a conspiracy theory in which they pretended China had operated overseas police stations in their respective countries. Fake news!

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13 points

yeah, seems like they’re really hoping to convert some lemmy users

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36 points

What is “Rule 1”? Is it “Thou shall not have a different opinion.”?

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32 points

thou shalt not say things that are censored in china….

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Funnily enough it seems like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml are also censored in China via their great firewall.

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5 points

because westerners can access it

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Officially, it’s “bigotry”, unofficially it’s a catch-all so that when someone brings it up their more prominent users can make declarations like this:

“routinely the actual reasons people are mad at .ml is getting banned/ censored for being bigoted”

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7 points

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.

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2 points

So they’re saying communism is a disability… Makes sense!

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5 points

Only in actual fact, though ashamedly never written down anywhere irl in a manner that is so clear and understandable.

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16 points

I got banned there last week for saying that lemmy mods are just as pathetic and banhappy as reddit mods

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15 points

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3 points

Was this before or after Anakin was on the council?

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Before I think, all of the clone wars happens before episode 3

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if you asked him, he was never really on the council 😆

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in my experience, they’re a lot worse….
stuff that would get a comment removed or a note from the mod to chill just gets you an instant permaban here…
and they’ll ban you for the dumbest shit too… simply discussing china’s human rights abuses that are well documented and publicized is “racism against chinese people” or some dumb shit….
luckily it’s just the hard hard leftists… the places that are all shills anyway (like he-x-b34r)
(i just spelled that dumb so it’s harder to search).

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I’ve noticed mods of some instances will lurk and ban users for comments that weren’t even on their instance.

Some of the mods on blahaj do that while using fake user accounts to sow approval.

It’s insane what patheticly small amount of power internet janitors will manage to trip on

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Don’t start with Bahaj, I remember a post some time ago where I saw lots of removed comments so out of curiosity I went through the modlog. People were being banned and comments removed for literally nothing (like, not a slur or x-phobia or anything, just a discussion about OPs topic), ban reasons for example were “you’re not the victim” lol. When I pointed it out in that thread, my comment got removed as well (but I graciously was allowed to not have my account banned). Of course you don’t want to have instagram-esque comments in Lemmy but power tripping mods still suck and the modlog is kinda useless if you cannot revoke decisions

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These threads are great because they are nice tankie block attractors. They can’t help themselves from commenting on their non tank-3 accounts.

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9 points

It’s hilarious. I have them all tagged and the same usual suspects always show up like clockwork.

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3 points

If I see cowbee in the comments here I’m gonna chuckle.

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1 point

Lol is there a list somewhere? Id love to just blanket ban all the morons

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What’s rule 1 on .ml? Everyone is getting banned for it.

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Ableism is forbidden, so you get banned if you make fun of communists.

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2 points

So they are accepting that they have a mental illness right?

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8 points

Either that, or they consider it their religion and/or gender.

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Rule 1 on .ml is “no racism.” In this post, it appears to be “racist” against Chinese. At least from some kind of a point of view.

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No, it is against China, not Chinese people.

“Chinese” is a heavily loaded term, containing nationality, ethnicity, culture and language. In this case it is criticising China the nation, not Chinese people in any sense.

It is racist to link China the nation to Chinese people, because many people who are ethnically Chinese do not associate with China.

I know I am about to be downvoted heavily by tankies but just remember that .ml are hypocrites.

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They also use “racism” as an excuse if you say Russia was wrong to invade Ukraine.

@Davel@lemmy.ml , lemmy.ml mod who larps an American but is a Russian fucking hates it

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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

  • 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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