this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
226 points (94.8% liked)
Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
1634 readers
48 users here now
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.
Relevant comms
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I'm an Admin on lemmy.today and the accusation that DJM is UM (and others) occasionally comes up. Both I and @mrmanager@lemmy.today have looked into it and neither of us have ever been able to find any kind of proof.
I've engaged with several Lemmy users who supposedly had proof but they were unable to provide anything better than what OP has up above. It's always loose conjecture and "trust me, bro".
Yes the DJM account is annoying but that's not enough to get banned from our instance.
I kinda figured. it seems to me that a lot of the accusations we see in YPTB and elsewhere is people just saying bad actors are UM, and a lot of people just agreeing without any skepticism at all because they don't like UM. which is fine, they don't have to, but it seems like a lot of the tings UM is accused of are just from this negative feedback loop of rumors. at this point it wouldn't surprise me to see somebody claim he eats babies.
And the OP is mad at the admin showing it's not UM and not breaking any rules either. Now they wanna leave Lemmy.
And the admin also called out OP for likely being the one to having alt names, because OP's account is only a few hours old and the comments in this thread are the only comments he has made. I've never even interacted with OP and he's not banned from any of my communties, so I'm not even sure how my name came up anyway! lol
Honestly might be an alt of someone who hates you, projection is their entire thing of such people.
This is a big kicker for me. I have an identical name on a separate instance only for when .today gets attacked. This isn't that fucking serious! Who goes out of their way to manipulate votes? Like I treat the numbers as feedback as compared to an indictment.
I oddly got accused of it by some taco butt plug braincel, but found the entire idea laughable. Which much like relationship cheaters, makes me think they were actually doing it and projecting.
These numbers aren't real or important, why do some people take them so seriously?
I'm baffled at how many people seem to take this all seriously. I ain't got time or the brain cells to switch between 300 accounts, alt usernames, instances, etc. Just cuss me out here. Not only that, these people they are accusing of me being, don't even post the same shit I do, so why would I create alternate names just to post stuff that opposed my views?
So wait, am I every socialist on here now? Or every anarchist? Or every republican? Or every democrat? Or every libertarian? Do people not realize that those are not the same things? Am I all of those now?!
Isn't "astroturfing" supposed to mean having the same message? All the names they are listing post all kinds of different shit. So what would the point?
I have actually chuckled outloud by some of the comments here. People really need to go outside more. lol
Someone just linked me my mod file, and I apparently pissed off someone very active here cause I am perma banned from so many communities I never interact with.
It seems like this is early adoption, but current Reddit.
They flagged me for serial down voting, but votes are public and I very rarely down vote anyone.
If I gave enough of a shit I'd investigate & make a post here, but I got better things to do with my time. Other than today, cause I did babysit a popular post I made this morning for a few hours
In the old days, at least people were annoyed because of things I actually did by not voting for their hero. This thread is a whole 'nother level of weird though. I've read every comment, and I still haven't figured out what it is people think I'm doing or what my goal would be. What are they mad about again? I see they are mad, but I don't know why. I'm 300 people or something now? I've never even interacted with OP and his account is only 17 hours old. What in the world?! lol
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world pinging for their claim so they may see the evidence isn't on their side
That last sentence is why I'm a big fan! Let idiots get ratio'd. But I also wonder why our very laissez faire instance gets ddos'd so often.
First of all- BULLSHIT. I have brought evidence to you and you chose to dismiss it.
And I told you- you could have talked to JordanLund, he’s got the proof. You chose not to. You’re protecting him.
Yeah, whatever man - I had a huge "attack" one day, and wouldn't you know, about 4-5 of the usernames listed here were involved in that. Odd that. Also, their traffic patterns were hugely suspect.
I spent hours into investigating that "perhaps these are real users" and nope, they fell right into my honeypot routes. UM and CM0002 are bots, full stop.
They also aren't Tucsonans, which is why I didn't approve their signup.
I don't think many admins actually know how to properly audit for bots - and honestly, that problem is harder when you're a global instance.
It's part of why I don't think global instances will work for the fediverse, too vulnerable to bot manipulation. We need proof of humanity - and that scales better with local nodes.
TrustMeBro™
Lack of evidence is now proof he's guilty. Wasn't at the scene of the crime? Guilty!
Ok, now do DonaldJMusk and the other dozen accounts.
I know you can't because of them being on other servers that aren't playing ball but that kinda feels like the point.
You're just the bartender, but once this conversation is over I'm done with Lemmy. Not your instance, all of Lemmy. He's following and harassing me everywhere and the most you can do is call him annoying.
Fuck you.
I insulted this idiot once or twice, and they didn't follow me around. I'm curious how hard you went in the paint.
Edit: someone linked my mod file and apparently that idiot perma banned me from a dozen communities I have never interacted with. So my point is moot.
All DonaldJMusk accounts are banned on Piefed.social.
you're a brand new account making accusations, but not providing any proof to back those up, and suddenly after less than a day you've had enough of Lemmy and are leaving?
sounds like you just wanted to stir the pot for the attention.
But how else would the UM haters find new ways to stir shit without the one day old user who offered nothing? Proof is evil!
When I say "DJM" I am referring to DonaldJMusk.
You obviously have another account because the one you're commenting from is only 6 hours old, has just 1 post (this one) and only 17 comments (all in here). I checked because I wanted to see one of these accounts harassing you and look into it. Unfortunately there's nothing for me to see so there's nothing I can do.
My suggestion would be to report the user accounts that are causing you grief to the admins of the accounts home instance and then block them. Takes like 15 seconds to do both of those actions.
Sadly my wife isn't into sharing, otherwise I might be interested. 😘
Hey admin! I'm curious. I started an argument with someone and they mentioned my mod file. I'm still super new here and don't quite understand what that means. Can you explain it and/or tell me how terrible of a person I am based solely on that file?
Modlog, here is yours. https://sopuli.xyz/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=16720769
Thanks homie!
Lol.
It's all the shit I talked to them!
This is a good trip down memory lane.
And big lol at all the "serial down voting" bans. I thought voting was public, and I do not down vote often.
I must've seriously pissed off a prolific mod.
This is strange, it says I'm banned from my own instance. I'm so very confused.
Amazing how you proved a day old account made to make this point wrong, and they freak out. I'm sure that's not suspicious.
Weird thing to crash over people saying you could be wrong. That's always an option.
Bravo. And they say we're the bots. Or Tankies. But Hexbear said we're bad guys for not being Tankie enough. What a wild 48 hours it's been for us. Somehow too far left but not left enough. Somehow asking for proof is a lie.