this post was submitted on 26 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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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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- 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.
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- 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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talking about Ukraine on lemmy is going to be kicking one nest of hornets or another. i got banned from !ukraine@sopuli.xyz because i said the only way to kill fascism is through books (education) or through bullets (self defense) and they took me to mean calling for indescriminate killing of russian civilians which i, to this day, have no idea how they came to that conclusion. i was even trying to tell someone else to tone down their pro-violence against civilians stance at the time and all his comments got to stay up, but all mine got purged.
i've since been unbanned, but it has still left a really bad taste in my mouth. at this point i kind of only talk about Ukrainian news with one lemming and the Ukrainian neighbors i have here.
but now that i've made a comment about Ukraine on lemmy, let me make it abundantly clear what my stance is: the Ukrainian people live atop what the rest of the world sees as a pit of resources of burn. the athropological, archaelogical, and genetic records indicate that Ukrainians have been indigenous to their land for 30,000 years now. their oppressors are extraction companies perpetuating what us Appalachians call The War on the Land. most people call it Class War. my hope for the Ukrainian people is the same as my hope for my own people: deliverance from the perpetual war against the land enacted by hierarchical society.
i see in ruzzians the same uninformed and ignorant stances and behaviors that i see in those who enact my opression. they are themselves opressed by the same war on the land we are, they are simply not given access to the information needed to understand this. thus, in an active war, the Ukrainian people are forced to set aside the book and focus on the bullet. i hope that one day all of us who suffer under these conditions can stand shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm, hand in hand, and sing in celebration of the end of the age of vampires
Good comment. I usually stay quiet simply because of your first paragraph. Its a nuanced concept, and the internet does not understand nuance. You say one thing then you're not supportive enough. If you say something else it means you're a sympathizer. Text and internet just isn't the way to convey it.