this post was submitted on 14 Mar 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.


Some acronyms you might see.


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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Technically [email protected] is not against instance rules, but it feels like it should be. Is there really such a subr***it that's allowed to operate?

[–] recursive_recursion 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I've previously made posts with unpleasant vote ratios and have also been met with criticism/constructive criticism but haven't resorted to shooting out bans.


The primary issue is that they've displayed their inability to take criticism and resorted to using mod powers as their chosen immediate action.

  • shoot first ask questions later

I personally feel that all credibility and rationality is thrown out the window due to this observed behavior.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

An instant ban like this is definitely a PTB in itself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Does that community have 1 subscriber and 6 users? Does that count the mod?