this post was submitted on 08 Oct 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:
- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
- Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
- Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
- Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
Rules
- Post only about bans or other sanctions that you have received from a mod or admin.
- Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
- Don’t deobfuscate mod names from the modlog with admin powers.
- Don’t harass mods or brigade comms. Don’t word your posts in a way that would trigger such harassment and brigades.
- Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.
- You can post about power trippin’ in any social media, not just lemmy. Feel free to post about reddit or a forum etc.
- If you are the accused PTB, while you are welcome to respond, please do so within the relevant post.
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.
- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
- YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
- BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
- CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.
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that's certainly the modlog history.
I'm sure you want to correct the record in this thread that I'm unrelated to ikt's actions. There are more comments referencing me than there are comments referencing ikt.
Yeah i noticed, even after the spat between dbzer0 and mog i do not think you had anything to do with this, since checking the comm modlog it was clearly all by ikt, who as i've described is a huge piece of shit; and you've abandoned that community anyway checking the "asking for mods" post. I'll talk to the other mods about this
I also notice that this post doesn't meet the posting guidelines
There's no mod/admin listed
There are only removed posts, no banned users.
There's no screenshot showing the mod name
There's an explanation for each removal
There's no explanation as to why this is unfair.
It also doesn't meet some of the rules:
Quill didn't receive any of these mod actions.
There are no mod names attached
The accused PTB also can't respond
Browsing through some of the posts across this community, very few actually meet the guidelines and rules. For the sake of transparency and the purpose of this community, shouldn't the standards be much higher?
there is an explanation for why this is unfair: the rule is not explicitly stated anywhere. it seems outwardly to be something that was arbitrarily decided and never communicated. i tried to keep it very focused on that. i'm sorry i messed up on this post in some regards, i will amend my post some more when i'm at my computer and can add more screenshots.
i was actually really trying to keep the focus on that this community is a problem instead of turning this into a "everyone point fingers!" time. it seemed to me like since this is the world news community with the second most subscribers like it would be a likely place for newcomers to lemmy to go looking for this content. i saw at the time the most recent post was from the last 24 hours, idicating to me that it was still active.
my first comment in this whole thread was drawing attention to other communities people might want to subscribe to to elevate their visibility and encourage users to subscribe to them, elevating their profile. i was less concerned with ikt defending themselves since i think they've made their stance abundantly clear through their actions and more concerned with limiting the damage done by a community that appears atop the list due to its subscriber account since everything is political and everything is propaganda.
for full disclosure, i think israel's genocide of the Palestinian people rises to the level of being world news, relevant to everyone. if it were me and i were subscribed to this comm, i'd want to unsubscribe and find other comms to join to increase their visibility rather than stay connected to a wavelength that presents a skewed view of the world via omission.
i'm less interested in reforming heavily propagandized people on a presence platform than i am on limiting the damage they can do. over the years i've reached the conclusion that the internet is not a free forum for discussion, but a great huge alleyway covered in posters. our role, as the people in that alleyway, is to make sure our view has presence so that later someone can perform the verbal confirmation that actually shifts views in the propaganda formula.
i get that the whole world is invested in what's occurring, but it doesn't give much room for other global news, which is why ikt was removing it I think
until there's a rule or a pinned post i won't speculate on their reasoning and only judge based on that actions speak louder than words
so what do you think about this community's response to your thread?
personally i am unsurprised, YPTB is quite obsessed with me
Doesn't that fall under "other sanctions"?
Huh, i actually didn't notice. I mostly only moderate on this community when it's breaking of instance rules or clear spam, but i leave the actual moderation per comm guidelines to Unruffled or db0. I didn't even know we have a 'accused PTB can't respond' rule lol, but i have only banned their main, and it was a couple of months ago, unrelated to this post.
But yea you raise a good point. @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com @Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com what do you two think ?
You should aim to follow the sidebar rules .
There is no "accused PTB can't respond". I don't know what either of you are talking about. We explicitly allow PTBs to respond. Just not by opening new threads about it.
Yeah, but what about the majority of posts made in this community not actually following these guidelines and rules?
I'm not as anal about rules like other mods. I understand that people often don't see the sidebars and mistakes happen easily. So long as things tend to follow the spirit of the comm, I tend to let things go or just ask the OP to amend their post. The rules are there to help people follow the spirit of the comm.
i didn't realize there was a rule to @ the mod in question. i'll amend the post
There is no such rule! Where are you peeps seeing these?!
oh there isn't? i just assumed goat was saying that based on… you know… the rules. i'm on my phone right now so i don't have an easy way to read the sidebar
goat says a lot of things...
do you think this community will accept if a moderator featured in this community used your comment as an excuse for their moderation?
It depends? I think you're still under the mistaken idea that this comm judges mods on how well they follow their printed rules, rather than how much of a power-trippin' bastard they're being. A mod can have bastardly written rules and follow them to a T and we'd still call them bastards for having such rules.
such as you banning users for being libs?
Why did I just know you were simply building up to a gotcha 🙄
If you feel I'm being a PTB, make a post about it in this comm.
if you were aware of your own hypocrisy then that's on you
No hypocrisy here mate. But good to see your claim of trying to amend relations was just a lie since you're still clearly salty AF and having to resort to bad faith statements like these.
Goat is still upset, it's why they're here. No other reason.
I am upset, yes, because you and others keep slandering me with falsehoods
Goat, you really need to back off. The drama is over, stop trying to reignite it. You made your defense already, you don't need to go after db0.
very well, as long as I'm not mentioned