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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Me? Oh I've posted here before. Hell, I've been posted about before. Like I said, I am an asshole.
Granted my biggest 'blowout' over a power tripping piece of shit mod, I used TenForward itself to do it instead of here. Arguably I should have but it was just after the launch of TenForward and the admins of Startrek.website were actively harassing myself and the lemmy.world admins to attempt to get me banned. That and there were a lot of posts being made at the time questioning why I had suddenly left startrek.website, why myself/Picard/Umm/NegativeNull and others suddenly stopped posting to Risa entirely. It was just easier to make one giant post on that community.... why did I start talking about this and get links?
I need sleep. I also need ADHD meds. And I'd like to eat.
Can someone shoot me?
Request denied. You produce the content.
Whenever I get the energy for it again, 100%. I'm waiting for the rain to stop so I can go dumpster diving and find something to eat.
Edit: I got guilted into posting more...
Edit2: Rains not stopping tonight and I'm too cold. Maybe tomorrow.
You can have only one of those things. Maybe 2.
Something to eat please. I'm so hungry. And the thing to eat is a LEAD BULLET.