this post was submitted on 28 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.

Rules


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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[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

No, there was a reason to ban you. It just was not a valid reason.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I tried joining Piefed instead of Lemmy... Before even making a single comment I was banned from 3 communities for "Lemmy account with same username has been seen to start arguments on the Lemmy equivalent to this community"

Fucking thoughtcriming me

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, I was so excited about piefed when it first came out. But the thoughtcriming and social rating based on people disgreeing with you, took the shine off pretty quick.

Happens on lemmy as well.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Careful their PR team will come here to say why you are wrong on what the code does!

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 0 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh look it’s the tankies coming out to talk shit about PieFed because people are abandoning their shitty transphobe software.

Just a few more donations bro and the devs will release a new feature in a few years! They might even think about allowing a proper blocklist.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Love the only response from you is insults, and ignoring the substance.

Although didn't have you pegged as on the piefed pr department

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au -2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The substance of you exaggerating a moderation feature to discredit PF?

Oh no it has a little badge next to usernames that only admins and mods can see that shows a user might be problematic due to the majority of their posts being downvoted. Literal 1984.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yes reading the code, and reasoning from the creator is definitely exaggerating.

So you are cool with that type of rules? Interesting

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 0 points 6 hours ago

What type of rules? It’s literally an icon next to a username. I mod on PieFed, I see it occasionally it’s not a big deal.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 19 hours ago

Piefed communities are creepy. It's a platform based on the concept of those dead duplicate communities trying to boycott the Lemmy devs.

The piefed communities that come across my feed are so curated and empty it's always just a mod fighting with every other comment.

[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago

Yeah that's dirty.
You could probably appeal those bans, but just autobanning everyone that reminds you of something bad isn't a very good way to build community.
Those 3 communities are probably just one guy with a precrime banbot, btw

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That night be there antibot automation. You can appeal if it wasn't you. It's their current attempt to try to combat some AI bots that have been around on Lemmy.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

They're automating assessments of user interactions on Lemmy as an anti-bot measure?

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 12 hours ago

Their design is making it easier to see what the mods/admins think is wrongthink then remove from there. Or if you don't interact how they want. Then there's the poorly written code.

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[–] BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

All I see is no VPN and an almost dead battery. No idea what the rest is about

[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I never interacted with any of those communities or the mod. Nothing was explained to me either.

And I don't trust VPN's, I trust TOR

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Buddy, I’ve got some bad news for you about TOR…

[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 7 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

You mean fud?
Go for it, im rather into cryptography.
Tell me about how giving my credit card to a corporation that says "trust me bro" is more trustworthy than Tor... Go ahead

[–] texture@lemmy.world -3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

you dont need to use a cc to pay for a vpn and tor is slow as fuck. maybe using tor is part of why you got banned even, like "suspicious" ips as htey do with vpn ips sometimes.

edit - why am i being downvoted?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

Should be pretty easy to figure out the mod responsible, especially since it's across multiple instances.

Either way, I'm really not a fan of mods just banning someone from every single comm they mod. If you want to be an admin, make your own instance please.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

It's very "reddit like" abuse of power behavior.

And is honestly something instance admins should be able to crack down on.

It's easy enough to defederate from instances that are toxic, but it's not so easy to do the same for individual communities that are mass owned by one or two people who abuse their power.

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[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What the fuck is even going on in this thread.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 13 hours ago

No clue. I came in here thinking it was about one thing, then I see people arguing about different shit. lol

[–] will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 day ago (8 children)

one or more bigots keep making lots of harassment accounts to attack draconic neo. they spam posts like this and the trans communities too with their shit

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

I have to wonder if it's because draconic has been fighting Zionists from Feddit harassing them, or because Draconic doesn't tolerate users going into communities to spam/mass downvote and now is a target of spam.

Either way, it's a bad case for the admins of the instances to continue it.

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[–] KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Lemmy has a real problem with alts and sock puppeting

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Lemmy is terrible software for stopping bad actors. I feel like the devs designed it.

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[–] BootyEnthusiast@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Here's the mod who did all this btw:

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[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 day ago

Some mods have victim complex think if they shut down any dissenting voice they have achieved

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