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.

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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.:

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~~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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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)
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[–] Endmaker@ani.social 57 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (35 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.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, the problem of modreach is definitely not a solved problem. The other problem, of all discourse being directly controllable from on high by a profit-driven company, however, is solved by lemmy. I believe that was the original issue lemmy was meant to handle. And that problem does seem to be solved. We'll just have to handle the problem of public official reach the way we normally would.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 weeks ago (22 children)

lemmy fixes admin abuse, not mod abuse.

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[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 44 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

the... scales... of justice are often harsh

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

But fair when they are gill-ty

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 41 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Ada used to do this too before people started speaking up

Mods and admins will always find a way to trip over the smallest amount of power.

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The ban across multiple communities is not intentional. I just meant to ban them from !vegan@lemmy.dbzer0.com. I was not used to Tesseract's ui. But even that was definitely jumping the gun upon rereading the joke.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 33 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Why would you ban them from !vegan though, considering the comment was made in another community entirely? Even if we assume the comment was serious, you're basically saying the rules of the !vegan comm extend across the fediverse.

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[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

The mod in common across all these servers is @Sunshine@lemmy.ca and her other alternate accounts on various servers.

Sunshine, if you see this, this is a pretty overkill response from you over what is a joke about the lengths people go to to lie to themselves. If you're thinking it was a bad joke still deserving a ban, at least diminish the sentence length down from a month to a few days instead. I will edit the post to communicate the lessened ban length.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 48 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's OK Sunshine, JayDee's made out of styrofoam.

[–] xep@fedia.io 33 points 3 weeks ago

I'm sorry, but you're banned from every community I moderate now.

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[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

After the 'update' I'm still confused how that is even worth a 6 day ban from the vegan community.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They also walked that back a bit after.

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Right but 6 days for that makes vegans look absolutely nuts.

Inb4 I'm banned for being anti vegan I'm literally 20 years vegan

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 22 points 3 weeks ago

Sunshine is absolutely nuts.

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[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 35 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

PTB, if you were banned from vegan Comms I wouldn't really care, but a joke getting you banned from multiple non related Comms over several instances? Now that is crazy

[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

I thought i had a perm ban from them when i called them hypocrites for not caring for the feelings of vegetables. Saddly it was not

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[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 3 weeks ago (19 children)
[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

That is golden 😂

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, they're just blatantly banning people who said something they disagree with now.

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[–] remon@ani.social 27 points 3 weeks ago

Oh yeah ... that mod. Not the first time they did that, but this might be the pettiest one, yet.

PTB for sure.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I did see that. She is a pretty active mod it seems.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 weeks ago

Well at least you got a great story to tell when people says the /s is unnecessary. :)

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 13 points 3 weeks 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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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

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

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn't know PETA modded communities on Lemmy

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

PTB - The humor could use a bit of work, that joke was reeling in so slowly, just flopping around like a....

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Fuck, i liked Sunshine too...

PTB

Glad they at least reversed it after getting caught

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