this post was submitted on 28 Sep 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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Dude thats a 2d picture, no humans were harmed in that image. This gotcha you seem to have is kinda pathetic.
Well they can't separate the fiction they invented in their head from reality, makes sense they can't separate other fiction from reality.
That's what im saying. The first time i saw this sort of behavior was on Twitter, and for whatever reason, its left the xhitty platform and made its way to our corner of the internet.
It is a constant everywhere, not just Xitter. Tumblr, reddit, any place where you can share art.
One time on reddit someone got mad at the official art of a character who was 17 who was dressed modestly and not at all revealing, the most skin was her arms, ankles, and face, but because the character was 17, someone wanted to check the creators hard drive.
If you make a character below the age of 18, you're now evil to some people.
Yikes, people are nuts about this stuff. I personally think it's self reporting, or closet pedos fighting their inner demons by attacking innocents, but I have no basis for that outside my gut feeling.
Projection from pedopholes is nothing new. Just look at the GOP, Catholic Church, and transphobes.
Still, I wonder why. A lingering sense of guilt? The fear of being found out? Stupidity?
Gulit and shame, no one would suspect the person who is vigilant of the crime to be doing it.
Psychology is a bitch when people who understand it pay attention lol.