this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2025
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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.
YTPB 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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(((sinophobia)))
Hypocricy is their super power. Call everyone else racist just like magats. While apologizing for and championing Han supremacists. China has diverse and awesome cultures hundreds and thousands of years old. The Han are trying to scrub it all away. “OnEcHiNa!!!!1!!!“
hey. don't do the triple perentheses. especially when you're saying you're not a white supremacist. you don't need to give them any evidence. for context the triple parentheses are an old white supremacist dogwhistle idicating to other readers that you are in community with other white nationalists and believe Jews and Black people are in league together to run the world. i don't think that's where your comment is coming from, but it's not a good look and i had to look past that to read what you were trying to say. easier to just say what you're saying without using the racist dog whistle
It's apropos because it's a similar mentality. Used to confuse and mask their speech to others. Using it ironically is also not the same as truly using it. Neutering it's utility especially when people understand what it is. It doesn't matter what anyone "claims" to be. You will know them by their actions. All you have to do is look and you will never see me pushing Han or white supremacy. Just calling it out.