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:

  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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UniversalMonk, PapaSkwat, DonaldJMusk, TheSilentNickel, QuantumTickler, his communities are full of Astro turfing sock puppets.

EDIT: My list of sock puppets. I doubt it's perfect and I may have picked up a few that weren't him

Area15@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today
EndlessApollo@hilariouschaos.com
EndlessApollo@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
KaratinBandit@feddit.uk
PapaSkwat@lemmings.world
PapaSkwat@lemmy.today
PhilipsHurtFeelings@crazypeople.online
QuantumTickle@maga.place
Rhoerii@lemy.lol
Snatchdaddy@hilariouschaos.com
TheSilentNickel@feddit.org
barrygoldwater@lemmy.wtf
donaldjmusk@maga.place
thesilentnickel@lemmy.today
thesilentnickel@lemmyusa.com
donaldjmusk@lemmyusa.com
quantumtickler@hilariouschaos.com
quantumtickler@feddit.org
quantumtickler@lemmy.myserv.one

To the mods of this comm, I understand this isn't a post complaining about a mod action taken against me. It's hardly even a complaint against a mod, although he does mod a handful of communities. I know it's a hard-to-prove personal message that the accused will deny sending or say was a joke he told a troll, his word vs mine. But this is beyond the usual actions mods take. This is abuse of the fediverse, harrassment, ban evasion, and vote manipulation.

I believe the situation to be self evident even without this message that the users who frequent DonaldJMusk's comms are primarily him with a new username on a new server and they're leaking out into other communities with ill intent.

If action is to be taken against this post, I ask that it be locked and not deleted.

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[–] th3raid0r@tucson.social 2 points 1 day ago (21 children)

This admin will state that UM is a bot. And wouldn't ya know it some of the other signup attempts used the alt names. Weird that.

I don't think many admins know infosec practices very well to be frank.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago (20 children)

So we have 2 admins who have proof he's not and 1 who has no proof (documents, photos, just anecdotal).

[–] th3raid0r@tucson.social 3 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Nooope, I have IP data, email logs, and other things. However, much of the data had fallen off my WAF retention period. Oddly convenient how you just assume I don't have these things rather than keeping them close because I don't want the bots to figure out how I'm catching them.

When you conveniently leave out that providing proof reduces an admins ability to re-use certain detection methods, it makes me pretty convinced you're complicit.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When you conveniently leave out that providing proof reduces an admins ability to re-use certain detection methods

How the heck would anyone but you know that your proof would reveal your detection method? That's not a given.

And what's the point of collecting proof if the only way you have to convince others is "trust me bro, I've got the evidence, but you can't see it, my dog ate it."

And then when asked for proof you jump to implicate the person asking for proof? That's terrible form. We have an instance rule against bad-jacketing users:

  • Don’t be shitty to each other. i.e. [...] or bad-jacketing is bannable.
[–] th3raid0r@tucson.social 1 points 1 day ago

Well, You're more than welcome to reach out on more secure comms, such as matrix to get the proof! It's strange how that's basically standard for most of the other respectable instances, but not here.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Weird how he's just not gonna give it away. I'm sure any day now they'll have proof he's a robot and also a Tankie and also a fascist and also a shill and also...

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