this post was submitted on 07 Apr 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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It's a bad take (in the context of to community you posted in) that is worded as a personal attack against the mod, it's not a good look for you. It still harsh to get perm banned for pretty much your second comment there though ngl
But yeah aside from that, the general vibe I'm getting from the community and the mod is that there's an attempt to build an echochamber of a specific ideology, and severe enough disagreement will likely land you a ban if the rules can justify it in the slightest way possible. It's a bit contradictory though, given how 99% of the mod posts there are just radical liberal coal that most people can agree with (just look at the upvotes), but when those people start commenting, they start banning them en masse since it's not the kind of people they want, and I don't think they have the self awareness to realize this contradiction.
Wonder if there's an acronym for "you probably deserved less, but the mod is also at fault for attracting and 'baiting' people like you over with their posts", idk.
Nothing says attractive pro-liberal meme like criticising both sides. I don’t know how you can see that community and think it’s anything but a space for leftists and not liberals even if the occasional meme makes fun of people liberals also don’t like.
That's precisely why I've never said that it's all of the posts, but the majority of them. Most posts there talk shit about right-wing of capital (i.e. the police and neoliberalism), are just anarchist larp material (throw molotov i am so cool type shit), or some vague anti-capitalist virtue signalling. These kinds of posts are something that most liberals (especially socdem servile belief in the state types) agree with and subscribe to the community for, and it can easily be observed when the occasional post that happens to disagree or attack them gets posted.
It's the natural outcome of plopping down 20 posts every single day from other websites, most of them are going to be heavily upvoted inoffensive crap that are made to be agreed with and not consistent polemics.