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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.

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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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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/12702247

offending user (CW transphobia and queerphobia)https://lemmy.sdf.org/u/ashton1593

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[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's... obscure, I guess, if I don't speak Arabic and less funny if I have to read the explanation without knowing the pun, but nowhere near offensive.

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think what makes it funnier is how unrelated those two terms are. It's a quirk of the Arabic language and there's a whole class of these types of puns.

My favorite one is "bullying" and "the tigerization"

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think you might appreciate the German word "Scheinwerfer":

(The joke is that the word "Schein" can mean both the "shine" of a lamp or paper bills, and "Werfer" means thrower or caster. So a "shine-caster" aka light or a "bill-thrower" depending on how you interpret it.)

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Thank you for sharing this beautiful culture with me