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.:

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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[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 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.

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[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 3 days 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 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They also walked that back a bit after.

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 3 days 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 20 points 3 days ago

Sunshine is absolutely nuts.

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[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 3 days ago (19 children)
[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

That is golden 😂

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Fuck, i liked Sunshine too...

PTB

Glad they at least reversed it after getting caught

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[–] remon@ani.social 26 points 3 days 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 days ago (1 children)
[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 18 points 3 days 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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