this post was submitted on 11 Sep 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.
- Keep the comments in YPTB posts about the moderation action itself, not about the general topic in which the moderation took place.
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.
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.
Relevant comms
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You weren’t subscribed to the community because prior to your ban, I did a search for your username—didn’t find you on the subscription list. Furthermore, that thread was the first time you ever upvoted or downvoted any topic there.
Since you were not a member of the community, and since your only participation occurred in that thread—concurrent with other votes in quick succession—it is reasonable to assume that you were brigading.
Lemmy is still small and has a lot of small instances, a good number of us use All and not subscribe to every community. There are like 5 gaming communities that pop up on All, daily.
Nothing OP said was uncivil, they didn't call anyone names, they didn't troll or act like a dick. Having a different opinion of someone isn't being uncivil.
You clearly have the same mindset as other reddit mods do and you really shouldn't hold any mod positions if this is how you act with different opinions.
That community is incredibly small. I am the only active poster there. That post was already several hours old, and suddenly 10 downvotes come in quick succession? And none of them from members of the community? Yeah, that looks like a brigade to me.
As for the OP—I’d say accusing me of advertising is pretty damn uncivil. And not someone I want participating.
If you don't want people to interact with your content, go make a WordPress blog or something.
You posted something unpopular enough that 10 different people down voted it, just take the L.
This is completely unhinged. Touch grass.
Subscriptions don't always federate fast or correctly. (You can find many people with the same issue here) For many communities it still shows "Subscribe pending" for me, despite getting the content in my subscribe feed. No, I hadn't participated yet - the community is barely 2 weeks old.
If you’re saying you weren’t part of the brigade but just so happened to subscribe—but it did not federate—and downvote at an inopportune time, while a brigade was ongoing, that might be possible. I’m skeptical, but it’s possible.
However, your immediate recourse was to create this thread instead of DM and iron out a potential misunderstanding.
That’s really unfortunate.
As I wrote on another comment, you didn't DM me either, but permabanned me over 2 votes. Your ban message "Don't want you in the community" also didn't give any indication that you assumed I was part of a coordinated brigading attack. Instead, it very much read to me like you were just annoyed at having been downvoted.
Well, I probably could have given a more detailed reason. I will own that.
I will also unban you because you seem genuine and not malicious.
I stumbled on this post browsing all and had no skin in the game but downvoted only you for being insufferable, maybe people really just don't like the way you converse and find it patronizing and presumptuous.
That's some top tier insufferable pettiness.
So basically anyone looking through all posts is not allowed to contribute or vote before they follow.
Great.
lmao what