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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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 1 month ago (13 children)
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[–] Endmaker@ani.social 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 19 points 1 month 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 19 points 1 month ago (22 children)

lemmy fixes admin abuse, not mod abuse.

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

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

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But fair when they are gill-ty

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 children)

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

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month 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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[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

They also walked that back a bit after.

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 month 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 23 points 1 month ago

Sunshine is absolutely nuts.

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[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] xep@fedia.io 33 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 36 points 1 month 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 14 points 1 month 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 34 points 1 month ago (19 children)
[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

That is golden 😂

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] remon@ani.social 28 points 1 month 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 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 month ago

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

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago (5 children)

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

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 19 points 1 month 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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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I didn't know PETA modded communities on Lemmy

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

Fuck, i liked Sunshine too...

PTB

Glad they at least reversed it after getting caught

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[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I honestly think substantial chunk of Lemmy mods are worse than these on Reddit. Just look at pro Israeli censorship on feddit or some ridiculous world mods actions.

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