this post was submitted on 24 May 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.

YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.


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[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

PTB

IIRC, this numbnuts has done exactly this before. I blocked all their coms as well as them.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This mod does this kind of thing... a lot. Search for "qrstuv" and take a look at other mentions of them in this community

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

wouldn't this be a troll mod aka the definition of power tripping?

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It would seem it to me, yeah. Enforcing stringent rules that are, as far as I can tell, completely unwritten is just manufacturing reasons to ban people. Between that, the bizarre Garfield comic edits, the fact that a solid half of the account's entire history is "thank you for creating [descriptor] content!", and the near-total refusal to actually talk to anyone, I have no fucking idea what's going on with that account

[–] nickwitha_k 2 points 4 days ago

I have no fucking idea what's going on with that account

Nor do I and I've been on that instance for a while.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 28 points 5 days ago

I don't know if that's PTB or the mod being, well, I want to insult their intelligence, but I won't. So it's PTB.

The comment may have been short, but it conveyed the idea effectively in that length. It's also very true.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 22 points 5 days ago

Every post I see in that community is locked, and almost all of them are by the same user. The whole community is a power trip.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Was this on a post about Israeli goons firing at diplomats in the West Bank?

[–] graymess@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago

I knew immediately that's what this was about. Fucking Zionists.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is it just me or does SDF have a lot of questionable mod and admin actions?

To clarify, I'm not accusing them of acting maliciously or anything. I just think they're weird people.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wasn’t that the instance that a few months ago they couldn’t contact the admin to ban some Nazi comms because the admin never logged on?

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeyeye. Now he's more active but that was definitely a moment.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I thought it was. Definitely a shady instance with poor oversight.

[–] synae 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

news on sdf is a travesty, do not go there, do not comment. Best to block the community and its mod

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago

Found the zionist

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Content censorship

Israel must be feeling the pressure, fucking Zionist acolytes have been spazzing extra hard recently.

Reddit get sanitized but they let some discussions and the normie is getting big mad. Feel like Luigi situation where both sides are just done with doing left right circle jerl lol

Israel playing up DC incident is back firing lol

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

qrstuv does not appear to be a Zionist, though

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 days ago

No I don't think so either, this type of random ban is kind of their MO though. Maybe we need a YBP category for You've Been Pranked? :p

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

PTB

Another pathetic troll tripping on 0 power

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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