this post was submitted on 17 Aug 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.
- 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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Posting often isn't spamming but if I were to comment on those "cross-posted" (ie spamming the same link to as many communities as you can come up with that you don't even participate in) articles that he clearly doesn't have time to read, that is spam, even I don't even comment to 5% of what he posts in a day?
It's weird that you've managed such cognitive dissonance you don't even recognise it yourself.
Albeit not really. You know you do it.
Tá tú ag spamáil tuairimí. Conas atá sin difriúil?
You're spamming posts here and comments under every post that person makes. Their posts actually contribute to the communities, your comments do not. And removing a comment you made doesn't make us russians.
I'm using Lemmy as its supposed to. These are forums.
Maybe you're not old enough to be conscript... uh, to remember that before all these alternative forums, bots used to be look downhill upon, so if you posted too much and never engaged with any comments, you'd be banned.
You're pretending as if he's engaging in good faith. He never engages with his spam of articles he can't even read. I'm actually engaging. He's a coward, and can't back up or reason his clear spam.
He can't read the things and he doesn't engage with him, yet there's nothing that would make you admit it's spam.
You're pathetic.
Do you consider @cm0002@lemmy.world spam?
Besides, how do you know he didn't read the articles.
If you consider unrelated comments complaining about the op engaging, then sure.
besides, most posts he posts don't get many comments, what is there to engage with?
Tá tú trua freisin. <3.