this post was submitted on 30 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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Downvoting aside, not actually giving a reason for a ban is really stupid and comes across as being done in bad faith, imo. That alone makes this feel unjust to me.
Regarding downvotes, can someone explain to me why it's bad or wrong? I've posted my drawings before and they were downvoted. While that stung a little, isn't this just the nature of the internet?
Now imagine you had your own community centered around your art. And instead of someone just not liking your work, there's this one person who goes out of their way to downvote everything you post, no matter what it is. He doesn’t block your community. He actually waits around just to downvote your stuff.
Now let’s say you have another community. Not art-related at all. It’s about pears. That’s right, just pears. Poems about pears, pictures of pears, pear facts. Suddenly, every single post gets downvoted.
And guess what? It’s the same guy.
Sounds weird, right? Like what kind of person follows you around the platform just to downvote everything?
Let’s take it a step further. You look up the guy’s profile and realize he’s never posted anything. No comments. Nothing. Out of curiosity, you check his voting history and it turns out all he does on Lemmy is downvote every new post he sees.
Creepy, right? But also way more common than you’d think. That’s why you keep seeing this topic pop up.
Everything I described has happened to me. Sometimes all of it, sometimes just parts. But I’ve definitely run into people on Lemmy who downvote just because they think it’s funny. For me, some people just downvote my shit because of my name and the fact they don't like me. And they have been very open about it.
One guy even said about me, "I can't help it. I see Universal Monk's name. I downvote."
Lemmy seems to attract folks who are a little more extreme in their obsessive behavior than other platforms. Sure, a few users have been wrongly banned here and there for downvoting. But the number of serial downvoters here is ridiculous, especially the extreme political types or the hardcore anti-AI crowd.
I had someone downvote some stories I posted the other day. In a pattern that seemed to imply he didn't actually read them. But he let me know that it's because he didn't like the cover art or the story subject (Trump, hamsters, vampire nuns with strap-ons, and nutraloaf).
That kind of downvoting is fine and what the button is for. But it's not like he went in and downvoted everything.
And since he didn't like my writing style, he blocked the community so he doesn't have to see my posts there (I post a lot). That's how Lemmy should work.
And of course I didn't ban him; he didn't do anything wrong.
You are in too deep.
Nah, the people who live to follow people around and downvote are in too deep. Easy to ban them now, so easy peasy to deal with them. That's what makes them so mad! lol