this post was submitted on 05 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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This issue just keeps getting more and more entangled - someone called to defederate from an entire instance based on actions regarding a single, tiny community (on a fairly small instance to boot), now it seems that I should go read that article in order to fully understand what's going on... so I'm drawing a line here and saying that even without bothering to read that article, the wording of this OP (in YPTB I mean) is poorly framed.
Communities should have the right to protect themselves from not merely random downvotes but serial, bot-like brigades. Especially for something called "Thoughtful Discussion" where they are aiming for more limited participation by more thoughtful people, and all the more so when they make a special rule just for that. PieFed has superior methods to handle this - like the ability to restrict downvotes selectively to only community members (I think? I am not a mod there but I remember seeing that mentioned somewhere) - but using Lemmy software there really are no other options provided besides banning people who don't bother to read the community rules. I agree the solution is not ideal but what else does Lemmy offer to meet the same need?
This OP could be a YDI, or it could be CLM, or even BPR, but without being an admin or doing my own intricate research on lemvotes (which is the burden of OP to have provided) I simply do not have the information necessary to decide. (Therefore it's probably YDI, even if the mod's rejection reason could have been more clearly articulated on their end.)