this post was submitted on 16 May 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.
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.
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For people genuinely wanting links for context, I've talked about some of Sunshine's history in previous comments. https://lemmy.world/post/33055701/18273538
I didn't know about some of the things mentioned here, but it wouldn't surprise me. Using so many alts makes it hard to document these things. I expect that's probably intentional.
Why do you and Hamid keep saying she had anything to do with the Vegan v. .world events? It was only naevaTheRat and Eevoltic that took action against two users in the vegan community, causing .world's Rooki to interfere and leading to a back and forth between the parties. The modlog is still available for all to see.
They discuss Beaver/Sunshine in some of the comments of that timeline summary post. I don't think she took mod action against Rooki but IIRC her constant drama led to the vegan community moving soon after.
She's named by TheTechnician27, who was a newly appointed Vegan moderator, about a month after the "cat drama" though. Based on my observations at the time, the original Vegan moderators left and appointed someone new to take over because of .world's actions (e.g. see this comment from naeva).
TheTechnician27's understanding of the prior events seems lacking, as they argue she was at "the center of the recent controversy [involving] Lemmy administrator Rooki", offering no evidence and going against the facts of the modlog. Perhaps that's the source of misinformation here, because you say something very similar: "As Beaver, they put the lemmy.world vegan community in trouble with admins over that vegan cat food drama". That part is simply not true.