this post was submitted on 10 Oct 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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Your post is not a link to an article.
But also jl is still allowed to moderate there, which caught my eye much worse and is more disturbing. I guess fair removal but also wtf they still have Lund? Is there an esh option?
I don't know who or what jl or lund or esh are, in afraid.
Jl and Lund refer to the chief mod of .world, which needs to be defederated.
Esh refers to a term from a subreddit, 'everyone sucks here'
Thanks for explaining.
What is an article? Is it something like this definition?
Why can't an argument written by a non-profit be an article?
If it has to come from a news corporation, which ones? Who gets to decide?
If the MAGA regime decides to label a news source as "fake" is it no longer trusted? What if the news corp is dissolved but the writers started something else?
There's no sense trying to argue your case like I'm some kind of legal judge. It looked to me like you wrote a sentence of opinion and linked to a petition rather than link to an article. I assumed they meant news article. You didn't. The person who gets to decide is the moderator.