this post was submitted on 07 Aug 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.
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- 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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"Sex and gender are two different things, I'm not a transphobe!"
*One comment later*
"Having a Y chromosome make you a man!"
I remember when people tried to be believable. If there was any doubt about you being a transphobe, your comments here have thoroughly assuaged those doubts. YDM.
It's honestly annoying. Yes, sex and gender are two different things. This is correct, but hardly relevant. The chromosome thing is nonsense, even a cursory google would teach the layman there's XY women and XX men who developed that way naturally, let alone all the inbetweens because like anyone who stops looking at their phone once in a while, life is messy. But then they go on to suggest that toilets should be separated according to sex. Few women would actually want XX trans guys in the women's toilets.
It's all just a lazy excuse to pester an already marginalised and vulnerable minority. That and the perverts who want an excuse to look in little girls private parts. And the most frequent victims of the penis inspectors? CIS XX women and girls who had the temerity to not wear make-up and dress hyper feminine when in urgent need of a shit.
God forbid someone wants to do a poo. Or tackle the real threat to women: CIS men. But right-wing women are too scared of their pastors, fathers, uncles, brothers, and elected representatives, so they would rather not attack them.
To quote Andrea Dworkin:
Meanwhile income inequality is worse than its ever been, the world is likely to go into an economic depression sooner rather than later, the planet's on fire, fascism is on the rise across the world, and we've arguably never been closer to nuclear war. But hey, look over here, time to play penis inspector in the little girls bathroom.
You want to know the funny thing? I worked at a Dutch resort that got so tired of all this bullshit, they simply made all the toilets unisex. It wasn't a political decision, the countries pretty right wing, it was a commercial decision. That's the logical end result of all this nonsense.
Sorry for the huge rant. It just grinds my gears. And I'm not even trans.
And obviously I apologise if I made a small mistake somewhere. No offence meant.