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:

  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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UPDATE: The Unbans are showing up on modlog now.:

unban log screenshot

~~I have traded the month-long ban in the many communities for a 6-day ban in vegan@lemmy.dbzero.com, which is a more reasonable ban~~. this ban has also been lifted now. I appreciate the cooperation from the mod over this misunderstanding.


So it seems i've gotten a month-long ban in..... over 30 communities across lemmy.dbzer0.com, sopuli.xyz, lemmy.ca, programming.dev, and several others, for this comment here.

Screen cap of comment for posterity:

It's directly replying to a comment saying they can't imagine why anyone thought otherwise about fish feeling pain, which is reasonable. You might notice the quotation marks, because it's satirizing people's mental gymnastics about fishes' pain perception. It was meant in jest, exclusively.

It seems likely that a single mod took this joke wrong and chose to ban me on every community they have control over.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

This is really hilarious but also thanks for sharing all the instances to steer clear of lol

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

To me the "joke" wasn't even that funny, more like middle school snark. The whole thing seems like an extreme overreaction.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

In my Lemmy?? No fucking way!

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't know PETA modded communities on Lemmy

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 3 points 17 hours ago

PETA would send the fish to a kill shelter

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This platform just doesn't get satire or sarcasm, does it?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

For most part it does, but there are a small number of people who have established their control over a portion of it and like to wield their authority. So basically like reddit, local politics, and pretty much every social situation.

My most upvoted comments includes a lot of sarcasm, satire, and snark.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy is the most black and white community I've encountered. Nuance is completely fucking lost here and god help you if you try to argue against the prevailing wind.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

You dropped the /s.

Tap for spoiler/s

Imma be banned now.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 17 hours ago

I've seen that said about all online spaces. The reality is that communication is harder than people think. Speakers and writers think their intentions are obviously jovial. Listeners and readers think their intentions were obviously malicious. Tale as old as time.

[–] SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago

Just from personal experience: there seems to be an undercurrent of opinion that sarcasm and irony lead us into narcissistic dystopia fast.

As witnessed by the many ironic Redditches that turned bloody fast: There are just too many Psychopaths willing to take over and use it to lure the apparently plentiful masses of stupid people in (Biden-Bro and The-Donald come to mind).

I know certainly myself have tried to make this place less toxic by beeing less sarcastic. It's not about getting it and more of a conscious choice for me. As a side effect, I feel less bitter or disconnected from my life, so that is a net win.

Do I miss beeing an ironic, sarcastic ass sometimes? Absolutely. But it is not the good place I want to hang out at.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Seems weird that you got banned for a comment but the comment itself wasn't removed.

Anyway I think bans very often mean, "Your comment made me angry, so as a mod or admin I found a stick I can hit you with." And when it comes down to it, people who run websites don't have to publish anything they (or their proxies) don't like.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 17 hours ago

Shout out to the time here that I suggested a mod block someone they didn't what to interact with and their response was "but as a kid I can't because I need to be able to see their comments" as if that makes using mod powers okay when you personally don't want to see something lol.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 12 points 1 day ago

The ban was for a different community. Sunshine saw their comment and went "that person sucks I'll ban them from my sub[s]"

I don't think she was a mod where the comment was made

Also she claims she accidentally hit "ban them from everywhere I moderate" instead of "also remove their posts and comments" so maybe the comment would have survived anyway

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[–] Endmaker@ani.social 56 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (53 children)

Y'know, concentrating power in the hands of a single person / group defeats the purpose of decentralisation.

I can understand if the damage is limited to communities within a single instance, but when a ban is so far-reaching - across so many instances - it makes me wonder what's the point of choosing Lemmy over, say, Reddit.

It's still the same problem again, just with different people in charge - like Bluesky vs Twitter.

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (23 children)

Yikes, a mass ban over multiple communities for that? PTB

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