this post was submitted on 03 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:
- 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.
YPTB 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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it's meaningless since I couldn't choose to act on my intention
Its not meaningless, at least not in a material sense. Trying to identify intent is useful information, it can guide interactions to being more empathetic/sympathetic, productive, or interesting.
Is it meaningless in the sense of like, spirituality? Or existentialism? Absolutely. Like, we aren't here for any reason and no one choose to be here. It never mattered in any mystical, magical, spiritual reason. There is nothing beyond what is here. We just exist and we like what we like and want what we want.
if it's meaningless, why are you so focused on trying to define it and defend your position? you must recognize this is only rational if you have agency.
Because I love discourse. I love discussing these ideas. (Though sometimes I also hate it)
Agency is one's ability to influence your environment. Agency feels good. So does solving puzzles and helping people.
if you're not choosing how to change your environment, you have no agency. rock slides change their environment but they have no agency.
Rocks have no agency because they aren't conscious or contain intelligence.
Characters in books are fictional autonomous beings and are often described as having agency or having no agency on the basis of their level of influence on the story. That's what I'm describing in a sense when I use the word, but applied to real conscious beings.
consciousness doesn't grant agency. free will does. if we can't agree on this, then go on making up your own definitions.
Perhaps I should try for a different word to describe it or modify it in some way. I will concede it ends up entering into semantic debate sometimes (if the discussion even reaches this point) and I find that kind of discussion pretty dull.