this post was submitted on 28 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.
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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)?
- 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.
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- 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 was reacting purely to the "fortunately." Basically saying, I am not bothered if they want to start to escalate the bans. I will whine about it here and then move on with whatever I was doing.
I said fortunately bans applied in one instance don't apply in other instances. Although there are some instances applying pressure on others to ban users.
Hm... I do get what you're saying, but as far as I can tell the pressure works the opposite of the way you're saying. Like if they did succeed in pressuring someone else to ban me, that would just wind up hurting the reputation of the instance that did the ban.
Instances like Hexbear and lemmy.ml that try to enforce a pro-Russia viewpoint wind up as the pariahs that they deserve to be. lemmy.blahaj.zone is a little more complicated, since the crackdown they are trying to pressure people into adopting is actually a legitimately anti-bigotry crackdown, but even with them it seems like it is more common for it to be "yeah blahaj cut itself off from the raft idk" as opposed to "oh no we better ban anyone who says they like Dave Chappelle or else blahaj will cut us off from the raft." I think in general Lemmy seems to be pretty anti censorship as a general rule, which is as it should be IMO.