this post was submitted on 07 Apr 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.
Rules
- 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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Why does that merit a ban?
they're complaining on every post and deleting the ones they don't like, and you're questioning why that merits a ban. not only that, but they then came to YPTB and lied about being banned for nothing. and you claim to not see the very plainly public constant negative posts they make in that comm, which are clearly listed on their profile. not really sure why you're pulling a Trump fake news over this, but I'm not really interested in finding out. I'm going to just assume you are not being serious and not waste any more time on your nonsense.
The only people that see the deletion are the users on their instance, right? It looks like that's mostly just them. I don't see how this affects anyone else at all.
yeah, so was their ban. 🤣
That's right, when I delete a post hosted on a remote community, it's only deleted for our own users. Our instance's users get upset when they see AI slop, as it conflicts with their anarchist values, so I kindly removed it for them. We have rules about what sorts of content we federate over from other instances.
The deletion affected Deceptichum's ability to propagandise to MULTIVERSE users, and nothing else. Though the people voting in the comments seemed to approve of it.