this post was submitted on 10 Dec 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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idk, man, do you got any evidence this is UM other than "trust me, bro"?
I'm an Admin on lemmy.today and the accusation that DJM is UM (and others) occasionally comes up. Both I and @mrmanager@lemmy.today have looked into it and neither of us have ever been able to find any kind of proof.
I've engaged with several Lemmy users who supposedly had proof but they were unable to provide anything better than what OP has up above. It's always loose conjecture and "trust me, bro".
Yes the DJM account is annoying but that's not enough to get banned from our instance.
Ok, now do DonaldJMusk and the other dozen accounts.
I know you can't because of them being on other servers that aren't playing ball but that kinda feels like the point.
You're just the bartender, but once this conversation is over I'm done with Lemmy. Not your instance, all of Lemmy. He's following and harassing me everywhere and the most you can do is call him annoying.
Fuck you.
I insulted this idiot once or twice, and they didn't follow me around. I'm curious how hard you went in the paint.
Edit: someone linked my mod file and apparently that idiot perma banned me from a dozen communities I have never interacted with. So my point is moot.
All DonaldJMusk accounts are banned on Piefed.social.
you're a brand new account making accusations, but not providing any proof to back those up, and suddenly after less than a day you've had enough of Lemmy and are leaving?
sounds like you just wanted to stir the pot for the attention.
But how else would the UM haters find new ways to stir shit without the one day old user who offered nothing? Proof is evil!
When I say "DJM" I am referring to DonaldJMusk.
You obviously have another account because the one you're commenting from is only 6 hours old, has just 1 post (this one) and only 17 comments (all in here). I checked because I wanted to see one of these accounts harassing you and look into it. Unfortunately there's nothing for me to see so there's nothing I can do.
My suggestion would be to report the user accounts that are causing you grief to the admins of the accounts home instance and then block them. Takes like 15 seconds to do both of those actions.
Sadly my wife isn't into sharing, otherwise I might be interested. 😘
Hey admin! I'm curious. I started an argument with someone and they mentioned my mod file. I'm still super new here and don't quite understand what that means. Can you explain it and/or tell me how terrible of a person I am based solely on that file?
Modlog, here is yours. https://sopuli.xyz/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=16720769
Thanks homie!
And big lol at all the "serial down voting" bans. I thought voting was public, and I do not down vote often.
I must've seriously pissed off a prolific mod.
This is strange, it says I'm banned from my own instance. I'm so very confused.
Lol.
It's all the shit I talked to them!
This is a good trip down memory lane.
Amazing how you proved a day old account made to make this point wrong, and they freak out. I'm sure that's not suspicious.
Weird thing to crash over people saying you could be wrong. That's always an option.
Bravo. And they say we're the bots. Or Tankies. But Hexbear said we're bad guys for not being Tankie enough. What a wild 48 hours it's been for us. Somehow too far left but not left enough. Somehow asking for proof is a lie.