this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2026
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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.
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- 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.
YPTB 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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I find it deranged that, based on content submitted to communities on other instances, Hexbear targets users not even using the site.
Further, my best understanding is that comments in such communities are being removed on Hexbear, such that they remain on the original and other instances, only appearing as removed from Hexbear. I never knew such a capability was available to administrators of Lemmy instances, and its use strikes me as among the most misguided expressions of censorship.
Yep, they ban users for off site content. When it happens to them they claim fowl play, but when they do it it's valid. If you moderate their users coming into your community? Oh you better believe they don't like that either.
And it changed it's argument from when I last read its comment. Surely that's not weird.
The repeated revisions to the explanation would not have been necessary, except for a complete lack of transparency and fairness in the actions.
Lack of transparency is the greatest thing for such moderators.
I hope to find my own peace using an instance not federated with Hexbear.
If we ever do have the vote to defedrate Hex, I'll vote yes and never think of them again as they circlejerk about us.
I thought slrpnk was defeated with Hexbear?
I hope to find peace as I continue using SLRPNK, as it is an instance not federated with Hexbear.
If I didn't like the admin team here, I'd consider swapping to slrpnk solely for that. I know my admins won't hate me if I did swap, but I really enjoy the level headed nature of them.
I presume you are talking about me? I have not changed any arguments in this post, was it something from longer ago I don't remember right now?
On the one hand, I think if someone should be banned, offending comments should be removed so the modlog contains documentation. But on the other, it does lead to what you said, where it only appears removed on hexbear and not on other instances. And yeah, if you didn't ban someone for things they did outside of the instance, that wouldn't be a problem. I've also seen the opposite, where content removed by mods/admins a dbzer0 comm removed comments and it was then re-instated on hexbear (and only on hexbear)
When seeking out ever more users to ban becomes an end in itself, an objective of transparency no longer carries any value.
I'm not sure it was "seeking out." masquenox was talking with hexbear users in the comments removed 23 days ago and probably in the two posts I linked.
Hexbear users chose to participate in a discussion, community, and site in which such comments are not unwelcome. The comments observed applicable rules. The actions undertaken are quite markedly unreasonable.
Nah nah, when they do it to anarchists that's left unity.
When we ban them for ableism and harassment of our users, that's us being rude to them.
Somehow they're always in the right and never in the wrong. Especially when the mods who say they remove inflammatory comments about anarchists never do when you report them, even with ableism included.