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this post was submitted on 10 Dec 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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Weird how they came in here suddenly.
B-but it was on all of our front pages! Ignore when we post it, link it, screenshot everyone, on our Slop community! Then talk about how much we hate them but don't do anything to stop getting angry about it on the same community!
Edit: it keeps happening, wow I'm so shocked.
Edit 2: on the front page of Slop, users from Hexbear commented and then went to the post being discussed https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/59235577?scrollToComments=true
"But we don't do that! Lemme just prove we do!"
Didn't come here from slop or any other comm, it's genuinely the top for me. Default settings, which are sorted by All & Active.
Considering we're not federated with .world, this is probably the most active thread on our federated spaces.
Edit: also there's quite a few .zip bots which would have artificially boosted the activity
You couldn't have come here from slop because this thread isn't on slop: they're just lying through their teeth
oh yeah the .zip bot, I was surprised it somehow got through
The zip bots are very odd. I've reported them for spam.
And again, it was not the top when I checked. I concede things may have changed since then, but when I checked while work was slow it wasn't.
I think the discrepancy comes from whether or not you're logged in to an existing Hexbear account.
I got a screenshot on PC in an incognito window for just visiting Hexbear as a guest (default: Local and Active) vs my default as a user (All and Active, since federation at the very least)
Ignore the Nvidia pop up, I launched a game in the middle of testing this
It's the "local" vs "all" sorting.
I personally used the "all" setting when I checked, but it's important to note.
That's probably a factor, I don't have an account there.
How dare you play video games and have fun!
This hasn't been posted to slop, you dishonest troll. As ever, you're just mad that communists are allowed to use the website built by communists
Yeah that acct is phony AF. A lib insult to the memory of EVD.
Hello I got here from the front page and as you can see (if you’re timely):
https://hexbear.net/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=Active
This post is currently at 2nd place of our front page, discounting the pinned megathreads.
Now I have provided proof of our position, will you provide proof of yours?
Of course they won't prove their position; their irrational boiling hated is all the proof they need
Why did you link to a different post?