this post was submitted on 18 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.
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- 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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YDI. You were sealioning and deliberately playing in bad-faith, such as (but not limited to) when you claimed nothing in the screenshotted text was bolded when it was. Your ban had nothing to do with the argument, but with the sealioning.
Quote me claiming "nothing in the screenshotted text was bolded" for the court please.
You could have said that @Cowbee@lemmy.ml worded it incorrectly, and that you never said that, you only said that a specific line wasn't bolded (at least I assume that is what you are trying to get at here)
It would be a better use of everyones time.
I literally conceded that he could have that point, because it was literally completely irrelevant to the discussion. I then invited him to rejoin the discussion multiple times after that, but he continued to accuse me of lying, instead of just agreeing to disagree and move on. Yet you deem my behavior as more harmful to the community.
Why are you both so fixated on that hyper-specific, non-sequitor?
The fuck are you talking about?
I'm not.
Oh sorry, I assumed you used bans appropriately. My bad. Guess that sorta resolves this post though!
What... you think I'm a mod or admin?
Oh, yes -- I did think you were a mod and the one that banned me, based on how things came to my inbox.
Nevermind, you're just a Cowbee orbiter. Yawn.