this post was submitted on 12 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.
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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.
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 other accounts? My other main lemmy account was https://sh.itjust.works/u/UniversalMonk account. Posts are public there too.
And I recently started https://feddit.online/u/UniversalMonk And posts are public there too. I also have a xander science one. and I was on vegantheory before it closed down.
All are socialist-oriented and/or third party oriented. My posts and profile for .world is still up to.
Are you forgetting that everyone on .world was mad because I advocated third-party voting BEFORE the election. Back when it was traitorous to say so on Lemmy? It's cool now, but def wasn't cool to advocate third-party then.
So what alts are you referring to?! I've always advocated third-party voting and always said the duopoly sucks. I mention it in all of my profiles too.
The reason for the alts I mentioned is because you never know when an instance will shut down. Lemm.ee the 2nd or 3rd biggest instance is shutting down. Pefect example. And I used to be on lemm.ee too. profile is public there too.
Yep, and they gave in to the mob-rule and banned me. But look at every single post i made on slrpnk. Socialist or solar oriented. The mod actually reached out before he banned me, gave me the reasons (the mob-ruling people) and offered me time to switch my stuff over. So I have no ill-will for slrpnk whatsoever. They were totally cool about it.
Again, see the lemm.ee instance shutting down. The vast majority of my posts are from here and st.justworks. Both histories are public.
All you are saying is that people don't like me. Ok. We know that. I KNOW that people don't like me because I didn't vote for Biden/Harris/Trump. I have always said they are the same. And I always will. Proud of the fact that I advocated for third party then, before it was well-accepted.
I don't wanna turn this into a political thing, but let's face it. That's why you and others are mad at me: I didn't vote for Biden/Harris/Trump and was open about it.
Now having said all that. I have nothing to do with OP. OP isn't banned from any of my communities. You all turned this in to a UM fest, I am merely defending myself.
ALL my posts from every instance I have been on are public. People are fine not to like me because I don't worship the teet of the capitalist duopoly. Cool!
But don't go around making up shit that's not true like that I'm the guy who banned OP. I have never even heard of OP until this post today. Enough people hate me for real reason, people don't have to make up stuff. (not meaning YOU specifically, I mean the others talking about alts that aren't me.)
Also thanks for your posts about threads to ban me. I AM proud of those, because they show in black and white, for all to see, the mob-rule bullying that happens to people who aren't exactly doing what you want. That's why they are also in my profile graphic. I'm not trolling, I'm wearing the mob-rule madness as a badge because I'm glad I stood up to you all then, and standing up to you all now.
But I got nothing to do with OP's situation. I think this is all going off topic, and people should just concentrate on OP's complaint.
Also the AUK you are talking about uses a bot to ban from his community regardless of if you've never voted there, or posted there. The mod logs are full of his bot bans/unbans.
The admin during that conversation disagreed with him.
In fact, I'm not banned from that dude's comm. I checked just now. lol