this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bonus, I somehow missed this before but recently came across it:
This removes all credibility from Goat. I regret not seeing it sooner or I would have never made my YPTB thread about his edit requests, because nothing he has ever said has ever been in good faith and it just isn't worth considering anything he says.
He operates exactly as those he calls out, while supporting genocide and bigotry. Wonder how that happens with someone so opposed to anything that lenas left.
Antisemitism is when you call out genocide.
Yeah, also as a bonus I messaged sh.itjust.works admins because it was to my understanding that using their platform to make disgusting bad faith accusations wasn't okay and they said they don't want to suppress "political opinions" in response to that comment I screenshotted. So not only have opinions of goat been clarified, but also opinions of an enlightened centrist instance. Shame too, I thought they were a good place as far as I knew them but it seems they are not.