this post was submitted on 26 Jul 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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Were they innocent persons?
Is this your attempt at a serious argument?
We don't need to be polite with them, they're fash. Who cares if they get doxxed when they deserve far worse.
What we need to do is not make legal headaches for db0 by allowing our users to post people's social security numbers online when republicans are notorious for using litigation as a weapon to harass people they don't like.
Oh sorry, I didn't know this was .world. I guess we should also make sure not to bad mouth Zionism as that's antisemitic and may cause headaches. Better delete the piracy comms, they're also legal headaches.
Did that little tantrum make you feel a little better, Champ?
Resorting to ad hominems? Okay.
Don't use words you heard on the internet until you actually know what they mean.
An ad hominem is an attempt to refute an argument by using a personal attack. I didn't attempt to refute anything, I just insulted you. So it's not an ad hominem, because I'm not arguing with you, I'm dismissing you entirely because I don't think you or your viewpoint is important enough to me to waste my time discussing it further.