this post was submitted on 18 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.


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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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This is becoming ridiculous.

We are back at square 1.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The thing is it's working because you are coming here to vent about it and there's no "he said, she said, they said". Not blaming you for coming, that is the right move. Each person can independently assess if the mod actions are reasonable or unreasonable.

Automod doesn't change that, and honestly I think automods are needed to relieve the burden on volunteer mods on a growing userbase, even if there will be false positives sometimes. That can be reversed through manual review. If you don't like the decision of those mods, go to an alternate community, especially for news, tech and politics topics, there are plenty out there on the Lemmyverse.

[–] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Have you actually tried reading the rules of the community you want to post to? YDI

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

No offense, but they make sense to me.

  • First two are political posts. Probably a bot enforcing Rule 6.

  • 3rd post is technically a blog post, not a news article, I guess.

  • Third is borderline political?

The removed post justification should be more explicit, and removing a Servo dev post is ridiculous. But like it or not, it seems to fit the community’s rules.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 points 24 minutes ago

The removed post justification should be more explicit

Yeah, the only crime here is that 'automod rule triggered' should be replaced with something that tells you which automod rule was triggered.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago