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this post was submitted on 10 Aug 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.
Relevant comms
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your wish is my command. I felt like I should've kept them around a little more, after the end of the thread to see where this goes, but might as well bite the bullet now. @bdonvr@thelemmy.club should probably deal with this on his side too.
I'm sorry you got misgendered, hopefully he gets banned from their home instance too.
Done, thanks,!
Really do appreciate this cross instance collaborative moderation and I feel like more of it would make lemmy as a whole a better place. I have seen other admins tell me not to ping them about behavior of their users outside their own instance which just strikes me as cowardice at best and tacit approval at worst.
As the fediverse grows we're gonna see a lot more influx of reactionary shit from people leaving reddit and bringing that baggage here.
We also have a Matrix chat for this kinda thing not sure if you were ever invited?
I was not but I would certainly join it. Be warned my matrix shows up as unverified because my old phone broke and I am unsure how to fix that.
I think I signed up with a protonmail account and I don't even remember which recovery email that is linked to. I should probably just make a new one.
My old desktop and my old phone died in the same week like a year ago.
Its mainly an admin room but we do have non admin observers, i can invite you; what's your matrix user?
@nakoichi:matrix.org