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.
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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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- 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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You genuinely don't get the connection between the suicide joke and the comment "cause 95% of you are guys lets be honest?" You're bending over backwards for obvious transphobes that make no attempt to hide it purely because they share your anti-Hexbear bias. If you genuinely can't come up with an explanation for the 95% comment yet find it not at all transphobic, then there's no way you'll ever admit to being mistaken anywhere else.
Secondly, I have given evidence not just of myself, but other users directly being censored, where you even agreed with me that that's problematic. I have never said Lemmy.world censors everything, just that they foster an environment by censoring particularly squeeky wheels and preventing leftists from federating, under reasoning they should also ban hilarious-chaos for if they were being consistent.
Do you see why you're getting pushback from people here?
That's one of the most mask-off instances of transphobia, referring to the userbase of Hexbear itself as "95% guys." Yerbouti didn't mention the people in the thread, but Hexbear as an instance. You clearly don't care about an honest conversation when you bend over backwards to defend Zionists and transphobes like that. I've answered every question, I can't give a number on something like that. You've clearly demonstrated dishonesty and bad faith, called me a liar numerous times throughout this thread, only to be disproven time and time again.
As a. FYI, Phillip lied when he said he never knew about PugJesus, when he's had accounts interact with him on communities he's modded and talked before. He'll feign ignorance and being a smartass when everyone with an once of reality knows his bullshit.
Yep, checks out, figured it's as good a time as any to disengage.
And they're temporarily banned for transphobia too. Lovely person they are. Liar, defender of bigotry, hates anyone to their left more then their right...
Yea, when they played like they didn't understand what yerbouti was getting at I knew nothing would have changed their mind about anything.
I can think of one you haven't answered...
There are a few more, actually. Another good one would be:
If you send me an article you would like to post on lemmy.world, that doesn't violate any kind of community rules but that you think will be banned because it is anti-DNC or anti-Israel, I'm happy to post it and see whether it gets deleted as part of their grand conspiracy to make sure that the postings are only 99% criticism of Israel and preventing you from securing that vital last percent.