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 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month 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.

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[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Anyone who mods more than one community should automatically get their account deleted and IP blacklisted, especially if it's across instances.

This is supposed to not be reddit.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t have a problem with modding multiple communities, because some people simply have the time and patience for it while others don’t. But there should 100% be reasonable limits. Maybe a cap of 3 or 5 communities, and sweeping bans in multiple communities should automatically trigger a manual review from other mods.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Nah, lemmy is way less intensive work on the mod side of things still. Most communities, you'll go weeks without needing to do anything at all.

This community here has a bias towards high traffic communities. The more traffic you get, the more reports you get, the more chances of someone doing stupid stuff that needs mod action. And, with a higher volume of mod actions, there's a higher chance of even the most level headed mods fucking up in one was or another.

Most of lemmy, one person could moderate a hundred communities and you'd never know that they were there at all.

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