this post was submitted on 27 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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Instance banned for a single vote (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by darkdemize@sh.itjust.works to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Apparently I was instance banned for a single downvote on a ~~comment~~ post I disagreed with. I've said before that mods who do this kinda thing are cowards, but I'm honestly not hugely upset about it as I'm not a furry, so whatever. But insulting me in the ban is too much. Grow a fucking spine you pussy, and at least message me if you're too going to insult me with your ban.

Edit: Changed comment to post, for clarity. I assumed it was a comment I downvoted as I tend to interact more in comments.

Edit 2: This got more traction than I expected and I'm glad to see most agree that moderating by voting behavior is childish. I don't condone the transphobia in the comments though. Don't judge people for how they view themselves, judge them for their actions, especially towards others.

Edit 3: Now apparently I'm inciting harassment by posting here. Go fuck yourself. I never even called you out by name.

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 70 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Reddit mod energy

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 59 points 5 days ago

Honestly I agree. Getting banned is one thing (is getting banned from furry content that much of a loss), but the literal trash talking in their comments (knowing you can't respond) is plain childish.

If you're gonna insult someone, grow a spine and do it where they can punch back.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

This is honestly the true price we’re paying for the Fediverse.

Reddit: one very well known billionaire enemy. Type fuck u/spez and try and cope.

Here: many instances (lemmy.zip, shitdoesntreallyworks, .ml etc) owned by spez clones who have no life and find random comments of other-instance users on their instance and instance ban them. And now apparently also for voting. The worst thing is that modlog doesn’t even properly display why and how and by whom you’re banned from that community. Or if it was instance or community level. Every week I see people who make sensible contributions permanently banned on the instance level and losing access to a community I mod because trigger happy owners have far too much power.

The Fediverse is not an improvement in this regard. And the worst part is this behaviour is often defended by an army of “just make another account” apologists.

Also notice that despite many reddit exoduses we’re still struggling to gain any meaningful monthly active users growth.

We need a system where admins can’t have sweeping powers, but saying that on here is not cool.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 46 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Modlog intentionally hides the name of the admin responsible for mod actions to users.

This is by design of the Lemmy creators, but I feel like this intentionally inherits one of the worst things about Reddit: mod unaccountability to the community.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 19 points 5 days ago

Well at least there is a public modlog. You know someone within a community has hit the ban button. Albeit the viewability of the mod-log generally could do with some ironing out.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's infuriating to me as a mod as well, because things getting removed without me being able to understand why makes it harder to do my "job." I can't even go ask the admin for their reasoning, because I have no idea who it was!

That goes double for the fact that when somebody checks the "remove content" option when banning, the removed content doesn't show up in the modlog.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 6 points 5 days ago

If a community has a small number of mods you can filter by mod on lemmy to see if it is who you think it is, but it shouldn't be that hard to see which dumbass mods are banning people for stupid and petty reasons.

[–] hesh@quokk.au 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The point of federation isnt for each instance to be perfect. It's that you have options.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We need a system where admins can’t have sweeping powers, but saying that on here is not cool.

It's also just not possible to do that?

The comparison with /u/spez is off to me. He is more in a position of CEO than an instance admin. He doesn't get involved in the drudgery. Instance-level admins are more akin to reddit powermods, honestly. Spez is more akin to the devs, except in this case the devs don't control the instances.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I hope you're not too upset about being instance banned from a furry instance. Not a huge loss IMO. 😅 But that is some extremely snow-flakey power tripping, I will agree! Very childish!

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm not. Like I said, it was the shitty comment to go along with the ban. People who talk shit about others behind their backs are pathetic.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Yup, I got you.

Definitely cowardly.

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Typical from Draconic NEO.

PTB

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 days ago

I kinda hate that votes are tracked. I have vote weights hidden on everything I can, I don't like to let what others vote influence my own votes. I'd even hide the arrows, but I do occasionally vote on something if it's overly positive or negative. I know karma weight doesn't matter like it does on Reddit, but I still think it's a stupid system I mostly don't care about.

I am partially furry (as in, I appreciate anthropomorphic art, and I cosplay a character that is furry-adjacent, so I have a tail and ears), but I don't defend the community when it comes to bizarre shit like this. It hasn't affected me yet. The thing that annoys me is, they will spam furry porn in one community, and the moment a few people block it, they will make a whole other community and spam there instead. Like they really want you to see furry porn. And when it comes to animated, GenAI, CGI, or SFM porn (that is, porn made without real actors), I'm fine with a lot of it, and more than I would be if it were real... but I don't wanna wade through pages and pages of furry porn. (I browse /all.) So I do block communities that spam content. I'm almost kinda waiting to get banned from a bunch like this... and I won't care. I definitely speak to and associate with furries, I think they can be cool people, but the ones that feel like everyone should be forced to see it... I could take or leave that crowd. Just know they do not represent the entire community. Some of us just like speculative fiction... or something like Pokémon or Animal Crossing.

[–] remon@ani.social 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

They banned me for suggesting to block their instance in another PTB thread. I see it as a badge of honour and nothing of value was lost.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Grow a fucking spine you pussy

Yeah, they won't. You're beating a dead horse.

[–] Redjard@reddthat.com 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Your marked vote is on a post.

Post is the pitbull thing yet again.

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Either way, post or comment, does that change anything?

[–] Redjard@reddthat.com 3 points 5 days ago

Probably not, just clarifying.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The post: https://pawb.social/post/40961254

Downvoting this post does imply that you're prejudiced against certain breeds