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.
YPTB 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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Thank you for making it clear the bot didn't make a mistake in removing you from the community
The bot doesn't read intent, it just bans anyone who doesn't agree with your misinformation.
I'm using a heuristic to approximate if a user will be a positive community member.
I'm sure there is room for improvement
You have demonstrated you would not be a good fit for the community.
Right now I don't see a problem with the heuristics
Anyone who disagrees with you isn't a good fit.
Actually I welcome disagreement. I love a good debate. It's good for the community to have threads with lots of comments, and that usually only happens when people disagree
I'm about building a community. Which means growing participation. If every post in the community gets dog oiled immediately then it discourages other people from genuinely participating.
I see moderating as a form of gardening, you have to cultivate the garden you want, weed it, nurture it.
Thats your problem, its not gardening and people aren't plants. Plants don't give a shit if you act like a self-righteous asshole.
What is your thesis? Points don't matter?
If they don't matter, then it doesn't matter that people can't send negative waves to my community - Right? Fair is fair.
Are you collecting points? How do you gauge when your communities are successful? Would you like to share your metrics for success?
Conversations in the community.
Did I just break your llm or something? All of a sudden you don't make sense? I had some simple questions there chief.
I don't think you understand what the word metric is. I'm not sure why I'm still replying to you.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/metric
I don't think you know what "measure" or "something" mean.
The number of conversations in a community is a measure of something.
Well then our conversation is a positive for this community, apparently.
Oh yeah! This has been great, all the activity and attention has tripled my subscribers since this YPTB post was made.
And with that, Jets ego grew five times as big that day!
Sure, why not! Engagement is engagement.
Anyway - yes, conversations are what good moderators are looking for in their communities.
You are the goodliest moderator.
Lol another lie, I bet you don't even follow a carnivore diet
I do actually!
You don't have to agree with my choices, but you should at least give me the benefit of the doubt.
Two more links that do nothing to prove your claims lol, you're a joke
It demonstrates I've been following a carnivore diet, at this point your just denying everything I say... which is rather childish.
It demonstrates that you claim to have been following a diet, with no actual evidence to prove it, fucking duh.