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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A long time ago I downvoted a bunch of posts from a person spamming and got banned from a half dozen unrelated communities for being a "mass downvoter"
Technically true, I've probably downvoted more posts than upvoted. But to ban someone for using fediverse features as designed? I dunno
I'm not a serial downvoter. I maybe downvote around 10% of what I upvote, and that's considering that I regularly browse /all and find spam that I downvote and report, so I wouldn't call myself a "mass downvoter". It was also the first (and only) time I downvoted in that community. Some mods really don't like disent. But it's fine, I only found out because I went to the modlog to check something else and found out that I was banned. I suppose if I didn't even notice that I was banned, it means I'll be able to survive the experience.
Oh I'm with you, I was just adding an anecdote to back up your point. Those mods should just migrate their communities to an instance without downvoted if they're so sensitive about them
But if the downvoter isn't on the same instance, then the downvotes still count and everyone else can see them.
Let’s say I’m on an instance that doesn’t allow downvoting. I have a community dedicated to pretty hairless cats. If you’re on a different instance, one that allows downvotes, you can still downvote all my posts.
I’ll never see your downvotes, but everyone else who isn't on my same non-downvoting instance will, and that might hurt interaction in the community because people may see all the downvotes and decide not to visit.
Plus, the reality is that I'm an egotistical prick who sometimes likes to see exactly how much and how many people hate me. Hint: It's a lot :)
This is my rational as well for putting my communities on standard instances.