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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That's a major flaw in lemmy. No ban notifications. Or, I've never gotten one. Like, rock n roll, ban me, especially if it's justified. But since lemmy doesn't let me know, if a mod doesn't send a "fuck off and die" note, I may not find out I'm banned for months (like your situation, it wasn't until someone else brought it to my attention).
But I do have multiple accounts, and if you want to ban me instead of just this account, you gotta let me know so I can filter shit out so I don't vote on an alt or make a comment while I'm piddling around or whatever.
Also, apologies for going off topic since the mod action taken against the OP is the point of posting here, PTB. With no specifics given, and the total lack of anything hinting at racism in your years on lemmy, I can't see this being a justified ban. Like you said, you're human enough to put on an asshole hat now and then (less than me most likely, but still), but racism just isn't something you've indulged in even in jest that I've ever seen.
Agreed!
I'm not 100% what is going on with ban notifications, but you will get some. Mostly from communities but not all. I think it's depending on which instance has implemented that AutoMod function. But none of them tell you that you've been banned from another instance. Hell, it doesn't even show it in my modlog. I had to go to midwest.social and manually search their modlog for myself and THEN see that I was banned. I'm sure I've probably got that on a few other instances.
I abhor racism. I was raised in an exceptionally racist household. I cannot say that I never said the N-word because I did. A lot. But growing up in a hateful echo chamber in a small town on a small island when everyone is so white they sunburn at night? You never see anything to break that mold. First person I met who wasn't white was a Native dude at school when I was like 10ish. He was great, invited me over to his place and I went. Met his family. Every single thing I had been told was a complete lie. Was at that point I started second guessing everything that I was ever taught by my shithole parents. I was furious. I'm still furious. Well over 2/3rd of my life later and I'm incredibly furious. I am not okay with being used, especially against people for no reason. Like hell am I going to try and continue that for other people.
Then there's the fact that I'm gay and have a "vested interest" if you want to put it that way because racism isn't that different from homophobia in how insanely fucking stupid the entire thing is.
But more than anything? It's just a fucked up way to be. I'm a die hard Trekkie. If I watched that show and came away going "Racism is okay!" then I need to be shot.
I've removed two posts in the one comm im a mod of (that isn't just a personal comm) and both times i responded in the post explaining why it's deleted, before removing the post. That's the only way I know of that will alert a person they've been moderated.
I've never gotten a notification for anything of mine that's been removed or banned.
It is heavily dependant on the instance and whether they have that set up. Lemmy.world will send notices but not all instances do. I don't think lemmy.world will send a notification saying you've been banned from the instance though, I could be wrong
Must be recent, when I was banned they didn't give me a notice. They eventually wrote an entire post about it, but never let me know directly.