this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2025
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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.
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- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
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Holy God... you are talking to Cowbee. Rookie mistake.
I have no idea about the substance of your ban, because I got bored before coming anywhere close to reading the whole thread, but more or less, the type of behavior you encountered is why these guys are banned in a lot of places. It's weird transparently dishonest boosterism combined with claiming the right to "destroy" and troll anyone who is an enemy, also lying about what your opponents believe and why they believe it, and then getting aggressive with anyone who dares to disagree, and then inevitably whining about the colossal ideological unfairness when they inevitably get banned.
lemmy.ml and Cowbee are best left alone I think, except periodically to point the way out to freedom for anyone who's wandered into their orbit accidentally.
For anyone reading: The context is here, including Cowbee being published on lemmy.world while aggressively whining that his team is forbidden from speaking on lemmy.world for ideological reasons, and then this comment (from this thread) as I guess the final instigation for the ban:
This one made me laugh though. You're not wrong. I get the impulse to want to spend extensive time trying to prove Cowbee wrong and hope he or someone involved will see the error of him, but that's the playing-chess-with-the-pigeon game, probably a tactical mistake to spend too much time on.
Not feeding trolls is a forgotten art. I think it's because everyone is taught to feed the algo nowadays, but it's disappointing it's not better in the fediverse.
Edit: Oh dear. The guy wrote an essay on why he's the hero for getting in shouting matches with idiots =/
And this dude got caught defending transphobia is now crying fowl and federating Db0 because we called them out: https://piefed.social/c/meta/p/1393247/defederating-from-dbzer0-and-lemmy-ml
Fucking lol
Everytime this user pops up, usually them being the only idiot. Case in point them in this entire thread
And then he complained on his instance that he got banned for transphobia saying we're the bad guys for removing it.
Yeah that was a massive surprise. Although sadly not surprised they have a comm specifically for that
And now they're getting instances defederated because they we're transphobic and and utter asshole
https://piefed.social/c/meta/p/1393247/defederating-from-dbzer0-and-lemmy-ml
🤣
Another common bigot L.
A while back I weighed in on the "Hasan Piker shocked his dog with a dog collar" controversy. To no one's surprise, a whole bunch of shouty people emerged to write all sorts of excitingly unproductive comments to me. After a while of fumbling with how to cope with it, I made the policy that every time one of them posted something hostile and content-free at me, I would make a whole new post of some horrible video about Hasan and link them to it. It took them a few repetitions, but eventually I think they realized that they were producing the opposite impact as they were aiming for, and every comment of theirs was spreading the criticism instead of bullying the criticism into silence as they had intended. They stopped interacting with me lmao.
Similarly I tend to get banned from Hexbear and lemmy.ml. I don't think you should troll the trolls, and definitely you shouldn't just play the straight man to their little game, but modern trolls in the Lemmy sense aren't usually just trying to amp up pointless controversy for no reason. They usually have a goal. If you stop playing the game they are trying to dictate to you, and instead just work to undermine the goal, it's all of a sudden not fun for them anymore and they leave you alone. This has been my experience.
You gotta imaging anyone spending as much time as them anywhere on the internet, doing that much typing, being so obtuse and weird.
They will always respond. They have infinite time and energy, they will never engage your argument in any form of good faith unless it exactly meets their political requirements, and their job is to find a way to find classify you as an out group the minute you wrong- think.
Engage if you want with that in mind, they also won't block you, which is fun in a different way.
So what would an acceptable "good faith" way of disagreeing with you look like? Because at a certain point it just seems like anything other than just immediately conceding to you is considered "bad faith"
I mean, if you can honestly look at these back an forths and think they resemble anything approaching a rational conversation and not just circular meta discussion with the intention of targeting the person making the argument, then you aren't looking to talk to me about. You are looking for padding to put around the sharp parts of my opinions.
Starting the convo by Sea lioning in a post about a dude who was banned for sea lioning is also hilarious, i want to commend you for that.
looks around nervously Haha yeah... yeah...
Lmao, you're one of the good ones Phil!
Ha, I appreciate it