this post was submitted on 14 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:

  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

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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.


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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Eh, it's definitely not power tripping. They explained their reasoning, gave a limited ban, and did so politely.

Whether or not the comment violated rules could be debated, but they erred on the side of caution. Since we live in a world where even a meme community can be a target for hatred and nastiness, the mods erring on the side of caution is necessary. That isn't something I'd be willing to debate at all. Some communities just need extra vigilance. That's one of them.

I think you'd be well served by taking this chance to reexamine what you said and how you said it. The same basic idea could have been expressed in a way that didn't even get close to the rule, plus ways that didn't get as close much less be so close as to be indistinguishable from breaking the rule about targeting validity of terminology.

Maybe you didn't intend your comment to be taken as it was. I'm willing to believe that. But you do need to be aware that it sure looks like someone trying to dance around a bad faith argument in hopes of trying to play a semantics game to bypass a rule. Loopholes don't actually exist for this kind of thing, and shouldn't. You abide by the spirit of the rules, or gtfo. So, if you weren't doing that, then you gotta recognize the dubiousness of the comment and accept that future participation in that or similar communities requires an extra level of thoughtfulness in constructing comments.

Edit: the title of your post here is at the least misleading, and at worst an outright lie. The screen shot included in the post shows it as originally a temp ban ,as does the mod log. The perma ban seems to have happened based on your behavior after the temp ban, which is fully on you