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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- 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.
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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 bet one of the admins just had it out for you and came up with a bullshit excuse. Midwest reminds me of the Tankie Triad sometimes, quite a few of their users are .ml and Hexbear alts and the nonsensical banning is perfectly on brand. Nowhere near on the same level, of course, but still clearly a problem.
Side note, I hardly ever see anyone posting from that instance anymore. Used to see their users all the time. I wonder why?
Midwest is still federated with Hexbear as well.
What I find bizarre is that I only found out by complete accident.
Someone else made a post and @'d me. I looked at it and it had a response with someone saying "That account has been banned" and he was from the midwest.social instance. This dude happens to be a buddy of mine and I chat with him on Steam and Bsky so I reached out and asked what he meant while I looked at midwest.social and saw the banning.
He thought that lemmy.world had banned me for whatever reason (Spam. Spam would be the reason) and that's why he wasn't seeing my posts or anything on Lemmy anymore. That I either got banned or left lemmy on my own (which I did do for a hot second). I responded to him and asked if he could see the response. He couldn't. He then looked at my account and saw all the posts outside of midwest.social and saw all the posts I've been making and that's when I made this post.
Whole situation is just so weird.
Thanks again @End0fLine@midwest.social
Well, that definitely explains the number of tankies from that instance. On a side note, I'm really glad you're back on Lemmy, the place felt empty without your posts.
Thank you <3
Life has just been a lot lately. Hard to get the energy to to go sorting through memes for 20 minutes, post them all and then go digging through the trash to find something to eat. The depression just does a lot of "What's the point" and the not eating for days doesn't give me enough energy to think up a point.
Any idea when Midwest was setup? I feel like I only saw Hexbear for a short bit before the blocking function became available. Then I immediately would have blocked Hexbear.
It just seems very midwestern to take the "just ignore them" approach.
I like it because I prefer to have the blocking of instances be my choice.
ooo has the redbaiting found a new target?