this post was submitted on 20 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.
Relevant comms
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If you don't post or comment in a community, why are you subscribed to it?
Do you know how many are lurkers on any given site? 90%
Much much much higher than that.
Probably. It's just a rule of thumb. . Say 10% of people using the ~~site~~ platform have an account and 10% of them post/comment.
So more like 99% lurk.
On corporate social media sites, lurkers still provide (ad) revenue, but on Lemmy they are leeches. They use our community’s resources while contributing nothing.
Hard disagree. And that kind of talk will not lead to this place flourishing.
What does a flourishment of non-participants get us but increased hosting costs?
What if Wikipedia had that attitude?
I'm not, I was viewing all. Sorry, "my frontpage" is probably misleading, I meant the all page on my device.
Oh. Well, if you don't want to see all, don't go looking at all and then get upset when you see all.
That's pretty ridiculous, obviously one can want to see an uncurated list while still judging the value of individual items, that's not mutually exclusive.
Sure, you can totally do that... and also a mod can totally ban someone who mass-downvotes all the posts in a community (rather than simply block it or the submitters). Actually the ball is entirely in your court there to decide what you want to do.
You may accept that you are going to be banned from communities that it seems you have no interest in seeing anyway, or you can start blocking them so that they do not show up in your All feed.
"Block early, block often" is practically the motto of Lemmy.
why would you assume they are subscribed to it?
bc OP indicated that, saying "my frontpage" (emphasis added).
the frontpage also displays local and federated communities.
You missed the point. The word "My" implies the Subscribed feed, rather than "All". At least that is the most straightforward interpretation, which explains why the person you responded to thought that.
that doesn't imply that at all. other people might not filter their front page by subscribed communities. that's just your assumption based upon what you personally do.
No, back when I used Lemmy I mostly used All. But then I did not call that "my" frontpage, unless I switched to Subscribed. Perhaps there is a language issue here, but the personal form of "my" implies a customization aspect, not the same shared set of posts that everyone sees across all of Lemmy (unless they block content, which OP seems not to).
Or at least it could imply that, which explains why the person you responded to might have thought that. There is a logical basis for doing so, I am saying.
Dude what is wrong with you? Debate pervert bullshit.