this post was submitted on 11 Mar 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.

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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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Yeah I post a lot, but... I have no idea what I did?

I try to post a diverse range of interesting articles and take the time to quote relevant parts to contextualize my posts and I enjoy many Lemmy.World communities, what gives?

I can't find any messages explaining why or anything.

I can't even ask anyone there now can I right?

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[–] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

since this post wasn't to a LW community the removal didn't federate. to see the full picture of our automod actions you have to look at the modlog at the source instance.

the post you created that was removed here was linking to a domain that has been massively spammed by bots in the past, which is why it's in our automod blacklist.

as others already pointed out, you've been unbanned already when we saw the automod notification. you can also find contact in our instance sidebar:

i don't have any evidence whether this domain has been spammed on behalf of the website owners, or whether this was a third party trying to frame them, but since there were no or almost no legitimate links to this domain before the spam bots i'm inclined to believe that this is a very shady website that should be avoided in any case.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Thank you for the explanation, I genuinely appreciate it!

Do you mean I accidentally linked to a shady domain that has spammed others? Or I looked to an algorithm like I was participating in a mass spam event linking to a target "victim" website? Sorry the wording just has me a bit confused.

edit ah, the former right?

[–] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago

you linked to a shady domain that lots of bots linked to in the past

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Glad it got resolved. Kudos to @MrKaplan@lemmy.world for coming in and explaining everything (even tho he banned me! lol). A lot of mods/admins don't do that. So that's awesome!

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 17 hours ago
[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You should still be able to view the modlog:

https://lemmy.world/modlog

Looks like an automod issue (they do try to catch spambots etc) but also looks like you have been unbanned too.

All's well that ends well?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 20 hours ago

We love a happy ending

[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 3 points 20 hours ago