this post was submitted on 11 Mar 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.
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- 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).
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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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Your opening statement here points right to YDI.
If you're going to be hyperbolic to the point of absurdity, it's impossible to not believe you were intentionally fucking around in the original community.
The rest of your post here doesn't do anything to improve that appearance either.
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Edit: yup, YDI. Your comment was off topic and useless. I strongly suspect you were rage baiting. If not, then you're just one of those people that has to inject venom into things for fun, which I tend to think is very much a detriment to any community. Was a permaban the right starting place? Maybe not, but damned if I wouldn't have been tempted to do the same thing. Some shit just does not do anything useful, and if someone is doing one of those things, they'll likely do others.
Maybe some PTB here, but I'm damned if I can make myself care
Second edit:
I thought I recognized your user name from a different comment you made. I did; your comment about the macbook neo was superb, hence why the user name stuck in my head. I'm not sure why someone capable of that kind of great comment would also make the one you're posting about. It does make me believe you aren't a chronic shit stirrer though, so I have to mea culpa on that bad assumption, even though it is usually a good one to make with the limited information in this post itself.
Because they're both great—the dissonance is your own intonation.
Thanks for your comment! Mod who made the decision here.
The reasoning behind the decision was more or less as follows:
And yeah, by this point, everyone knows "Elon bad". But stating the obvious doesn't contribute anything useful to spaceflight discussion.
You're not wrong yo take action. You were power tripping with the perma-ban. Simple 'as. Especially if it was not explicitly against the rules. Do you have a response to OP's reply?
At the time of my comment at least 7 people didn't seem to know or care Elon Bad.
Your reasons sound vaguely reasonable on the outset, however
The point is, either make those things the rules and then enforce them, or just down vote (or at best remove) but no need for the banning. c/elonsmagnificentspacetravel is also an option and I wouldn't commented in that either, even if it didn't have any rules.