this post was submitted on 11 Jun 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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What is with all the twats purposefully going into communities they don't agree with just to be asswaffles?
YDI, and quite frankly I applaud the mod for not putting up with your bullshit and shutting you down before you disrupt their community.
What's with all these communities who can't handle a single opposing viewpoint. Almost like the point is just to sit around and jerk each other off.
The mod message clearly says it wasn't because of an opposing viewpoint but was for mass downvoting.
You go into a community you already disagree with you're going to see a lot of comments you disagree with too. Mass downvoting isn't engagement. Perhaps instead of downvoting all those posts, OP could have responded to them with their opposing view and actual engaged with the opposition like they did in the one referenced post.
Nobody owes you a place to voice your opinion. Our instance, our rules. Accept that, or get banned, it’s that easy.
I'm not forcing anyone to allow people to voice their opinion, just calling them weak and emotional when they can't handle an opposing opinion. Double points if they can be mention banning someone and free speech in the same sentence.
I don't care if I'm banned it doesnt change my life. Dbzer0 banned me like two years ago or so already anyways. Second most hypocritical next to .world.
Narrator: In this comment, Rekorse had failed to understand the difference between the pop culture use of the term "anarchy" meaning "no rules" and the political theory of Anarchism, which if it was distilled into a sound bite would be something like "no state". Maybe he was confusing us with Freeze Peach Libertarians? Perchance we'll never know.
I wish I could make sense of this.
Wow, this sounds like you are ban evading then. Hmmmm...
How is it ban evading? I'm on a different instance, can't help it if dbzer0 is allowed where I'm at.
Well because the line of thinking is that if you are banned, then have start on a different instance and post on the place where you are banned, it's ban-evading. Just giving you the heads up. I personally don't care if you post here or not, I have no issues with you. Just saying that you are sorta admitting out loud to ban-evading.
I don't really care what I'm doing is called, I won't change it based on whether its officially ban evasion or not. If I get banned here for it, I'll make another account or move instances. I'm not sure why people are so concerned about keeping their account in good standing to be honest.
Hey, brother, you do you. Fight the power! I have no issues with ya, mate.
Yeah sorry if that sounded a bit dry, appreciate it and have a nice day!
Well ..... WHAT IS YOUR OPPOSING OPINION? Show me the non-epidemology that a ketogenic diet is unhealthy, or that animal based foods are unhealthy.
So far you have only illustrated that you don't like the concept of the community... There isn't much there for me to work with.
Free Speech and Freedom of assembly are both compatible.
~~Your not banned.... you haven't broken any community guidelines.~~ I've decided our interactions in this thread mean I probably should just put the ban in place, we have demonstrated we can't be civil in our conversations and it wouldn't be productive.
Someone smarter and with better sources already tried and it didnt change much. You don't seem to care about people, you seem to just want to be "right" based on your perspective and narrative.
Again though, I don't care to be part of your communities so have fun with your power trip.
They did handle it, they banned them. That’s handling the problem quite nicely.
As for your alt being banned from db0, good riddance. There’s no place for centrist scum here, especially scum who play devils advocate for pedophiles.
Who's playing devils advocate for pedophiles?