this post was submitted on 10 Dec 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:

  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Rules


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.


Relevant comms

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1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards

https://lemmy.ml/u/davel

2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

Community Ban

3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).

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4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).

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(I have not posted there)

Likewise the community has no rules listed, so I'm not sure how I've broken rule 4

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Davel is probably going to try to claim me downvoting a post or comment of his that popped up on my feed or something as me breaking the entire instances rule 4 (no spam?) - which is why I need to be banned only from one community I don't engage in.

Lemmy.ml admin Davel has been rage downvoting my posts a lot lately, even going so far as to downvote me telling real legitimate antisemites to 'fuck off'.

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Even CowBee had the decency to admit they were in the wrong and change their ragevote to an upvote.

Davel however seems to especially thinskinned even for the typical .ML'er and would rather double down and engage in poorly disguised retaliation bans for criticisms of a political ideology.

This thought terminating behaviour on display by one of the admins of such a reputable and outstanding instance as Lemmy.ml was not at all warranted and I hereby call on the leadership at lemmy.ML to unban me so that I may continue to not post in their community.

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[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Stop acting like you're innocent.

They banned you for brigading after you posted links on hexbear directing users to a post you had made about OP.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

She supports left unity when anarchists are attacked but not when they defend from AuthComs. She always defends them but not us.

Edit: "I defend anarchists, I just mod a place that hates them and defend Hexbear and Dengists and everyone but anyone more individualist than Lenin. And calling out user actions is sexist."

I'm not "feeling attacked", I'm calling out bad faith from someone who always defends the aggressor.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I call out people for being sectarian against anarchists. It's literally in the rules one of the comms I mod. I'm not going to defend someone that's being shitty just because they're an anarchist.

I try to report users being ableist when I see it regardless of who it is.

if you're feeling attacked because I called out one of your friends for something I saw as misogynistic, maybe that says more about you than you intended.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And calling out user actions is sexist.

Nowhere did I say that, however I did think that one of OP's thread title was misogynist, and he banned me for saying that. He also said it was homophobic to even raise the issue, but again you don't care when it's your friends doing it.

I literally do anarchist organizing IRL, I am an anarchist. Anarchism isn't being in the 'right' online clique, as important as that clearly is to you.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

please direct me to where anything about 'brigading' is mentioned in their rules. it's vibes based bullshit, they banned me because I made a post about their mod acting like an asshole and they went looking for an excuse.

they site banned me for a singular link in a comment on a thread, not even to their site. meanwhile the OP is acting like a martyr for getting a singular comm ban

you moderate for them though, so I can see why you would be inclined to defend their behavior

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There aren't any rules, and you shouldn't need to be told not to brigade.

You're from .ML with a personal vendetta, so I can see why you would be inclined to slander them.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No rules except the ones you make up to get rid of people you don't like.

not beating the vibes based moderation allegations with that.

I'm literally the only person to get banned from quokk.au and it's a rule essentially made up on the spot.

is cross-posting brigading now?

the person I was originally replying to seemed pretty outraged at the idea of decisions being made arbitrarily like that- but I'm sure if you guys do it it's fine.

I don't think it's reasonable to say I have a personal vendetta, I'm just bringing this up because the OP is acting like getting banned from one comm for acting like a toxic asshole is actually dictatorial mods banning someone arbitrarily.