this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2026
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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.

YPTB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.


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I sent the MOD this message:

Hi XXXXXXXX, I just noticed that you banned me 2 hours ago from c/Science for Spam. I am confused. I mostly lurk and haven’t commented or posted anything in several months. I definitely don’t post ads or spam. Can you please let me know what happened?

The only reason that I noticed that I am banned is that I watched that (long-ish) video about Brainrot on the feed and the top comment is asking for a tldw.

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[–] gkaklas@lemmy.zip 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

matrix thread

It has happened to me as well! It's the "vote-only" part that triggers it, to filter out bots

Dessalines:

[...] We don't usually allow vote-only accounts on lemmy.ml, those are mostly bots targeting specific users or communities. That's our rule 4, spamming.

Since it was an .ml account I just stopped using it; I don't know what you could do about voting on .ml communities though (aside from using your account to post more)

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 1 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

This makes sense, since I've downvoted .ml posts and admins and haven't been modded, but I wonder if there's a better way to block bots?

You need an account to curate your feed and folks are gonna vote. There shouldn't be an obligation to participate in the comments.

Maybe some kind of random bot test sent to vote-only accounts?