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.
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Oh i've stopped looking for logic with these weasels.
I got banned with a "merry Christmas ya filthy racist" for pointing out the Master from Doctor Who was a genocidal maniac who tended to get hoist on his own petard. Because the current iteration was played by an actor of SEA descent. Apparently actor =/= character is faulty maths.
To be fair, you were banned from hexbear.
Ironically, the term "dunk tank" has rascist origins.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunk_tank#Origin (note: slurs).
Go back a bit further, i also got banned from .ml for referring to xi as "winnie"
That's actually your earliest banning. The lemmy.ml one they just put down Rule 1 or whatever. The admins of lemmy.ml are a piece of work. They also banned my startrek.website account a long ass time ago but were all but forced to reverse course. Was the early days of Lemmy and I was posting way more than I do now, which is saying something. Why'd they ban me? I posted a meme that was the dude from Jimmy Neutron saying "My first gay character!", attributed to Disney. The teacher then was like "This is your 18th first gay character" or something. I posted it with the title "They're always the first in China, at least before being removed."
Instant ban.
poor little lemmings. They'll never be part of the power structure no matter how much they gobble, best they can do is swing at people on a federate instance so they have to go to one of a hundred others.