this post was submitted on 27 Apr 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.
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.
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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Look, ignoring anything else, people really need to get the idea that a post removal is not inherently power tripping. It's the point of a mod. That's the thing they're for: curating and keeping the crazies to a bare minimum.
If the mod is removing a single comment or post, with no other action, it isn't power tripping unless there's some corroboration of a pattern of suppression.
In this case, you provided no evidence of such, and the accusation you made is so far over the top absurd that I think you actually deserve a ban here.
Now, me and db0 have disagreed on multiple occasions, and I called them an asshole the other day, so this isn't someone kissing ass. But one thing that cannot be said about db0 is that they're in any way a fucking nazi. Fuck, if a real revolution popped off, despite my disagreements on precise details of what should happen after, db0 is one of a small handful of people on lemmy I'd gladly work beside.
This post is pure shit stirring, and isn't what this community is for, though it's good that it stayed up so that the absurdity of it can be addressed.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with the principle that mods and admins can be and should be called out when they're up to fuckery. But that isn't what this is. This, to go old school, is calumny, verging on libel.
I'm sorry.
This wasn't the best place to post about it, I suppose. As someone else mentioned, something like out of the loop might have been a better community to ask about this.