this post was submitted on 18 Oct 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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A while back I weighed in on the "Hasan Piker shocked his dog with a dog collar" controversy. To no one's surprise, a whole bunch of shouty people emerged to write all sorts of excitingly unproductive comments to me. After a while of fumbling with how to cope with it, I made the policy that every time one of them posted something hostile and content-free at me, I would make a whole new post of some horrible video about Hasan and link them to it. It took them a few repetitions, but eventually I think they realized that they were producing the opposite impact as they were aiming for, and every comment of theirs was spreading the criticism instead of bullying the criticism into silence as they had intended. They stopped interacting with me lmao.
Similarly I tend to get banned from Hexbear and lemmy.ml. I don't think you should troll the trolls, and definitely you shouldn't just play the straight man to their little game, but modern trolls in the Lemmy sense aren't usually just trying to amp up pointless controversy for no reason. They usually have a goal. If you stop playing the game they are trying to dictate to you, and instead just work to undermine the goal, it's all of a sudden not fun for them anymore and they leave you alone. This has been my experience.