this post was submitted on 14 Jun 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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Progressive Politics mod labels every opinion they don't like as "reactionary trolls" and bans them (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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The Mod of progressive Politics (TokenBoomer@lemmy.world) removes any opinion they don't like and bans any users that hold these "descenting" opinions. I was banned for pointing out that a

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[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

I know that guy. He's a fucking troll. I don't know how he got to be the mod of that community. Seriously.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago

Link the modlog.

[–] kayky@thelemmy.club 9 points 2 weeks ago

It's a common trend among these communities.

Just call whoever you disagree with a troll, then you don't have to argue and mods can censor them.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

Cool. More I was an asshole in a community and got banned post

[+] Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

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[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 weeks ago

What’s even a local mod? Reddit has no mods of their own in general and they outsource „admin” work to some call center in India where reports are actioned upon a roll of dice.

[–] kayky@thelemmy.club 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Agreed.

Lemmy has the potential to have less mod abuse, but we need communities that don't engage in it.

Right now most mods will abuse power whenever it's convenient or preferable to them.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Mod powers on social media will always be subject to abuse. The majority of people who start a community do so with the sole intention of being in control of it. Especially so when it's a duplicate community of another, larger/older one.

And a decentralized platform like Lemmy just adds one more layer of easily taken power in the form of an instance admin. Anyone can spin up an instance if they were dedicated enough, and have much more control than a simple mod.

It's super unlikely that there will ever be a totally fair and balanced platform, completely free of biased moderation. At best, you can choose to use sites and communities where your biases at least align.

[–] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't really understand the outrage to be honest.

If you spin up an instance and put in the work it is the right of the admin to do whatever they want with it. They can ban you if they don't like your username or whatever it is, and it's fair game.

I think it is pretty entitled to use the stuff of someone and still have demands.

If you don't like how the ship is directed you can always change ship and sail the same ocean.

Admins are responsible for the mods. They are just an extant of the admins and should act in their spirit. If they don't act in that way they should get the boot.

I mean isn't that one of the points to have different places from which to access the same content? Having different cultures and values?

So yeah, I agree with you. This will always happen and , in my opinion, people should stop being so surprised by it and start building their own spaces instead of demanding that existing places change.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If you don’t like how the ship is directed you can always change ship and sail the same ocean.

Great analogy for the fediverse! People used to give me grief for being on more than one instance, but I had to jump around a bit before I found the places and m@tes that fit my ideals.

[–] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

You just say that because you are anti fish.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

Please make screenshots a little more narrow to make them easier to read, thank you! 💜💜

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

You have direct attacks on users based on their instance in your screenshots, fam.

I mean, I say the same things, I just don't cry when the obvious .ml alt bans me for it.

[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just instance-block .world, as the reddit refugees end up there, the least worst will naturally filter out to other smaller instances in a helpful Darwinian selection process

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lemmy is drawn almost entirely from Reddit refugees. The occasional mastodon user wandering in with @s at everything doesn't change that.

[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

Right, and my ideal situation is that all the low-quality ones stay on .world and the rest filter out to join us on smaller instances.