this post was submitted on 30 Sep 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.

Rules


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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[–] cass1312@piefed.blahaj.zone 80 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Scrolling through the community quickly, there were like 3 jokes mentioning a husband's wife, one mentioning a car's manual transmission stalling, and one that's over a week old that includes the word "ass' which is directly breaking the no-profanity rule, yet somehow the concept of a gay couple is too confusing for a 6 year old? Oh and also a joke about "Cherenkov radiation" which I am 1000% confident no 6 year old on earth has ever heard of.

PTB

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 27 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe people should be reporting those other posts mentioning heterosexual couples to make a point.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

You know what they say: Alex and Philip don't make Robert

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Well now you've done it. You're going to get removed for being racist.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Fair enough! Wish the mod was weighing in here at least then.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I'd tag them, but de-anonymizing (sp?) mods is against the rules of YPTB 🤷🏻

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I hate so much when sections of Lemmy moderate as if they still have corporate masters to answer to and advertiser-friendliness to worry about.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 hours ago

On further discovery, that doesn't seem to be the case with this particular decision but generally?

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oh really? I missed that rule, I thought it was just using admin powers to reveal them was the no no. There's only one mod of that community.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

There's only one mod of that community.

Hence why I'd be able to know who to tag without being an admin myself 😁

I'm pretty sure that we're not supposed to mention even the most guessable identity if it's not in the modlog entry, though 🤷🏻

[–] unruffled@anarchist.nexus 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

One of the posting guidelines is literally:

Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

So, if OP already figured it out, then I think it's fine to mention. But I'm actually not 100% sure why there is a rule against deobfuscating the modlog in the first place. I'm typically for more transparency rather than less. I think @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com would have written the original rule, so I'm sure he can explain it better than me :)

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

If the mod is obvious then you can talk about them. If it's not, then refer to the "community mods".

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

That's wild when the first posting guideline is

Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

Seems like that's a tricky path to walk when posting here.

@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com Any chance we could get clarification on the naming of PTB mods here? @unruffled@anarchist.nexus

[–] unruffled@anarchist.nexus 2 points 8 hours ago

See my comment above yours in the thread.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Just don't try to instigate brigades peeps. Keep things nice an stick to discussing their mod action.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe people should be reporting those other posts mentioning heterosexual couples to make a point.

Mods would just ban people for pointing out the posts or comments breaking rules rather than addressing the issues being reported

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek with that comment honestly.

Lemmy.world not beating the allegations again.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 14 hours ago

Its the joys of how hard it is to convey sarcasm on the internet 😂.

Favorite removal reason from world is making too many reports so deleting instantly rather than locking