this post was submitted on 07 Jul 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:
- 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).
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- 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.
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- Keep the comments in YPTB posts about the moderation action itself, not about the general topic in which the moderation took place.
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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probably has something to do with you downvoting a ton of their comments. judging from the cringe teenage edgelord tone of this post, seems like they were right about you being a troll, whether or not the ban was deserved.
you also seem to have a tendency to downvote leftist content while upvoting liberal content that's trashing leftists of some kind or another. which might not raise any eyebrows for people from LW or other Zio trash servers, but is going to raise some eyebrows on this server.
LOL. I have used this style of writing because of the rest of the posts in this channel are kinda depressed. But, agree. Maybe I should remove emoji. But I definitely haven't trolled anyone here, yet(I assume you actually need to post something like comments or post). Preferences in upvoting and downvoting shouldn't be connected to banning in any matter. So, the only thing left is the fact that I disliked some posts and comments of this moderator. But I wouldn't say that there was like a tonn of them. I only discovered recent posts + lurked a bit here. If downvoting here in reasonable amounts for disagreement is considered being a troll, than this is not as happy place as I imagined it.
The reason should be spam activity in that case
What about me, babe? Can I get an apology? Write it yourself, please.
for starters, don't call me babe, you creep. and second, how's about you take a long walk off a short plank, kthxbai.
Don't call me a neoliberal then.
I didn't, you knob. you absolute buffoon. I told you to calm down because you're being a raging asshole for no reason.
and being called a neoliberal is a pretty fucking silly reason to be this much of a dick. if your skin is this thin, then maybe being on the internet is not good for your mental health. I've been called a terrorist by mods and admins all around fedi, you don't see me bawling about it.
yet another alt of the transphobic loser harassing MM. enjoy the permaban that's coming, you fucking obsessed weirdo.
I got banned as well even though I hardly downvote content on fedi.
I got no opinion on the ban itself, all I was pointing out was they downvoted at least several comments by MM (I didn't dig any deeper than that because I don't really give a shit, tbh). on top of that the smug edgelord tone of the OP makes me not that really sympathetic to their plight.
I will say that it's not surprising that MM is so ban happy, considering the harassment they constantly face by transphobic sloppers. we've already banned one sockpuppet account in this thread, but I'm sure more will be along to post the absolute worst shit imaginable soon enough. if I had to deal with the level of bullshit MM does, I would probably ban anybody that looked at me funny too. I also feel sorry for @flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com for having to deal with this every time.
Aha, so the non-written rule for this mod is that you can't engage with their communities and posts in any way, especially if your account is fresh? Hmm... Needs to be written somewhere for the future generations.
Don't play cute, it doesn't fit you. The unwritten rule is don't get pissy at someone because you didn't like something they post, then go to their profile and downvote all their comments.
See, where you fucked up is all your votes are public. So we can not only see what you downvoted, but the exact time you downvoted.