this post was submitted on 21 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.
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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That's against the rules in some communities. Some consider it unhealthy behavior to sweep through and downvote everything simply because you dislike AI, especially if you're not engaging with the posts. And especially if they are small communities.
If you ran a tiny anti-AI community and a bunch of pro-AI users came in every single day and downvoted every single post just because they disagreed with the idea of the community, would you be cool with that? That’s basically what you’re describing here. You’re free to take that position, but communities are also free to make up their own consequences for that kind of behavior.
I've seen this before. People go out of their way to downvote as much content and encourage others to do the same in an effort to suppress communities. Now whether these anti-AI people like it or not. AI communities have the right to exist on Lemmy, when they don't it's up to instance admins to remove them. Taking it upon one's self to attempt suppression of said communities will be seen as hostility by those communities and will earn bans from those spaces.
Also OwOarchist left out that they were seemingly instance banned from blahaj.zone for encouraging a suicidal poster to commit suicide. I trust Blahaj's mods on that way more than I trust them it was more than likely correct. Which means they aren't exactly a great person themselves.