this post was submitted on 16 Apr 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.
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.
- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
- 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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I wouldn't know. I'm not obsessed with trying to figure out if people have alts, but as far as I know, I've never come across that there.
Even though there’s evidence to prove you’re ban evading?
Or wait…. Was Universal Monk banned from this instance? Someone should look into that.
There is no evidence to prove that I'm ban evading. Because I'm not.
A quick search of his name shows that he's actually on this instance, so he's not banned from this instance anyway. So not only am I not ban evading because I'm not him; it wouldn't be ban evading even if I were him.
Also, I'm not the subject of OP's post, and I'm not the mod who banned OP.
Perhaps the admins/mods here would want to talk to the mod team at /Politics, and perhaps they don’t care. Either way, everyone knows who you are.
Let’s take a look:
Your BarryGoldwater alt was created on the exact same day as the one you’re using now, you both post in the exact same communities- saying the exact shame shit, about the exact same shit. The communities you post in? Amazingly and totally coincidentally run by either your Universal Monk account, or your DJM account!
Imagine that!
The banner art used on several of your alt’s all come from the same place, the shit-tier writing style in the description is the same shit-tier pseudo-intellectual rhetoric Universal Munk used to spew, and speaking of what Universal Monk used to spew…
You were flat-out busted quoting something word-for-word that was said by Universal Monk several months ago on /Politics.
All one has to do is just ask the mods there.
And if you’ve forgotten, I’m the one you PM’d with threats and personal attacks that finally got you banned from LW.
I've never threatened you with a PM or in any other way, and I'm not banned from LW (that I know of because it's a toxic instance and I rarely post there).
And I'm not the subject of OP's post and I'm not the mod who banned him.
I am reporting you now, because you've went to far by saying I have threatened you, and it appears you're just trying to get into a slapfighting contest.
Please stop accusing me of stuff, and please leave me alone.
K, thanks, byeeeeee friend! :)
Oh, wait… so you know, I still have the PM. I’d be happy to share it with any admin that would like to see for themselves. K, bye Monk :)
As you can see I am an Admin on DJMs home instance. I'd like to look at what you have.