this post was submitted on 11 Jun 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.
Relevant comms
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And I wish more Lemmy people understood this!
Surely we need to build more communities insulated from disagreement. The whole point of lemmy is to circle jerk each other right?
"OMG YOU AGREE WITH ME? OH WOW YOU AGREE WITH ME TOO?! FUCK IT FEELS SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!"
Pathetic.
Disagreement would require some level of discourse, a proposition supported by data and argument - Just driving around the city and throwing eggs on everybody isn't much of a disagreement
None of that is required for a disagreement. I disagree that you should be running communities, but after seeing the communities you do run I really don't think it will matter much either way.
Oh I forgot, we’re supposed to allow people to be asshole trolls just so they feel better about their own worthless, meaningless, sexless lives.
Projecting much? I'm sorry you haven't found intimacy in some time but that doesnt mean everyone else isn't fucking regularly.
Yeah, ok, sure buddy.
Lemmy is already like this, even more so than Reddit. The fact that people come here because they think Reddit is right-wing is hilarious to me. Reddit is one of most leftist places online. And extreme about it. The fact that people come here because they think Reddit is "right-leaning" shows you just how insulated people want to be by coming here.
Most people stay here because they want more extreme insulation. The few that come here thinking it's more open and less censorship find out real quick, that's not true. I saw a post in a casual non-political community about a guy talking about taking a walk and enjoying the weather.
Comments immediately combusted into posters talking about Trump and Musk. LMAO