this post was submitted on 29 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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I was expecting this post, thank you.
To start, you were engaging in revisionism and apologia.
I'm fine if you have issues with genocide only being referenced three times in the amnesty report, but you also vehemently denied human rights abuses and the imperialism of current-day China, even arguing for a supportive imperialism, which there is no such thing. The Uyghurs are detained based on ethnicity, which is mentioned numerous times throughout the report -- you denied this.
Your ban is temporary, 24 hours. All bans on meanwhileongrad are temporary and are always given after warnings.
This community
You're also being disingenuous; dbo is not just 'another' user. They are the moderator of this snark community (and admin of the instance), which regularly interrogates moderator decisions or behaviour without actually caring if the user has violated the rules. This thread is an example of this. I knew you'd make this post because I've dealt with so many Tankies such as yourself that it's become all very predictable
Which brings me to why I originally pinged db0 about how they vote. This is a perfect example of why I'm specifically holding this community and dbo to this special standard, or rather, the standards they hold others to. The OP, @IndustryStandard@lemmy.world, explicitly violated the rules despite being warned and despite many chances to explain their reasoning, so they received a ban (all bans are temporary on meanwhileongrad). Yet, despite this ban being justified, within the rules, and having received multiple warnings and chances, I am still a "Power-tripping bastard"-not on the basis of my moderation, but rather my views.
To illustrate this, I pinged db0 about their support for Tankies, much as this community pings moderators as to interrogate their personal views instead of the reasoning for the bans. You even conveniently left out the reasoning for why I originally pinged him; that's bad form, and you're being disingenuous again.
See, this community regularly interferes with the posts linked. Here are examples from across the thread:
And when moderators come in to give answers for the bans, they're still attacked. I was pinged to explain why PugJesus messed up, which I did and fixed the mistake, but I was still attacked.
In this thread, no one actually goes into what rules were broken and why they were banned. (Not that I agree with @PugJesus@lemmy.world, I don't agree with their moderation and have since removed them as Mod)
Pug doesn't have a chance to explain their reasoning because the moderators here, specifically db0, regularly bans people and makes up rules.
nice. imagine this community's rage if "shut the fuck up tankie" appeared in modlog... owait, it did with Pug and this community predictably raised a fit about it... But silence when it comes to db0's moderation.
I answered No. But why do you, db0, and this community expect the same of moderators?
I also explained that !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works is constantly brigaded and attacked as it is the only community that stands against Tankies across Lemmy and holds the developers of Lemmy accountable for their extremist views. We constantly encounter bots, spammers, alt accounts, trolls, and doxxers, so I need to be vigilant by regularly checking who's interfering and from where.
However, I also regularly see members from this instance and from this community voting on comments and posts that are critical of tankies. When this is coming from the same users and community, that's rather concerning.
To quote db0,
Maybe you should start holding your community to a higher standard -- It's being captured by tankies. And I'm sure you know the history of how communists treat anarchists lol
Because nothing says anarchy as much as "shut the fuck up liberal"
I don't expect to reason with anyone from this instance or this community, but hopefully, those unfamiliar with this community, instance, and Tankies as a whole will appreciate the efforts.
thank you sincerely, this was a rare opportunity, shoutout to @blaze@lemmy.zip
On a slightly unrelated note: I had issues with the d0 admins not enforcing their “disengage” rule when a user was harassing me on their instance after I asked them to politely to stop engaging.
I had flatworm ban me for two weeks for a first offence against the disengagement rule and I’ve never seen that before.
It felt personal.