These communities are quickly moving twoards an automod system where there is no accountability.
This is a lazy practice ported over from reddit and will do nothing but harm the fediverse.
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2025
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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.
YTPB 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.
- 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.
Relevant comms
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FWIW the names are often intentionally hidden through a setting in the Lemmy admin panel.
Pretty sure it's a server default so I'm not sure it's always intentional. It was just configured that way when they set up their server.
On the web browser you can filter by mod, which is useful if there are like two mods for a community (or one really active mod that you are already aware of) but not very helpful when there are very many as it becomes very tedious.
My guess is they didn't want to make it easy to see who modded each action to avoid the general log being treated as personal actions instead of a list of things that happened. They probably added in a filter so one could see the actions of a mod kind of like the filter by user.
I would love one additional filter for community.
Nothing like getting a speeding ticket for going 44mph in a 45 because you came close to breaking the law.
Also it's indisputable, also you're banned forever from driving on that road you helped build.