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.
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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.
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- 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.
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- 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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Maybe it's that the mod is racist and they are just letting you know? That would make way more sense than you being racist.
That's the only guess I got.
I went to midwest.social and looked at my own profile. Gives me a general timeframe of when I was banned. One of the last comments I made that was federated to that instance was this comment.
Context is easy to make out, but the dude was saying that constant reporting on deaths in Palestine was unhelpful because it would desensitize everyone to the death and make them expect it.
The only thing I can think of is that one of the admins of midwest.social is aggressively zionist or just completely misunderstood that comment.
Ooooh. This was in that era when being pro-Israelian or pro-Palestinian meant everyone not of your view was racist. All the extremies were clambering to bag that rhetoric for themselves. Racism is obviously a fntastic card to have in the narcissists' deck, but it needs to stick to something first so in those opening rounds everything from anyone on any side is "racism".
And let's be honest; the odds of a moderator being a narcissist is higher than the normals
It is not that much different now, protesting genocide is apparently "antisemitic" according to some. I have been banned by some tool not a long time ago for exposing a genocide apologist.
You can get technical and point out that Palestinians are obviously a Senetic culture too. Basically most of what we now know as the Middle East is/was.
When Israel got the benefit of the doubt, I guess some progress has been made.
Also, if this is true, it supports my broader thesis that modding is largely a censorship exercise.
Can't you edit your removed comment to see what the contents were?
Sorry for being unclear. I never had an account on midwest.social. Midwest.social sitebanned my lemmy.world account so no one on midwest.social can see my posts or comments.
When you're banned from an instance, they stop federating your content to their instance. So you can get a general timeframe of when the account was banned because the comments and posts will stop appearing. They all show up as "removed" but it still tells you when it was removed and what post it was on.
I then went to my lemmy.world account and searched up those old posts. I looked at the comments that I made around that time and the only one I could find that was even remotely touching on race was the one I linked above.
But you see, it was I who was unclear...
I think if you tap on your comment and attempt to edit it, some clients let you access what you wrote before it got removed.
Well now I'm just confused because that doesn't make any sense. The comments were removed on Midwest.social. My account is not. How am I supposed to click edit on a comment that's on another instance that I don't have an account on?
... Is this why I couldn't see your posts? I noticed certain communities were very different when logged in or not on Voyager, I have been reporting it as a bug this entire time.
Yup. Exactly why. I was just outright banned from the instance entirely so none of my content was federating.
If you weren't logged in, then the app was probably using lemmy.world as a default instance and so you were seeing all my stuff.
Might wanna go apologize to Alex lol
lol