this post was submitted on 18 Mar 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:
- 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.
YPTB 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.
Relevant comms
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I added you as a mod to a useless community, go check the modlog on photon now. It's a well known issue that @Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com is unaware of where people who don't mod communities can't see mod names in the mod list on some servers. Since I added you to a community as a mod you should be able to see the list now and the user details on exactly who banned you.
This is confusing and I really don't know why Lemmy devs added this restriction into Lemmy at all but it's an easy one to get around.
I understand your intention and I appreciate it, truly, but it doesn't help the problem because I've known for a while now (as shown in the Modlog screenshots) who's responsible for the ban. And of course, my point is that I can't contact them because they're only active in Digital Art (the community I was banned from). I can't comment on their posts, and I insist, Lemmy doesn't have secure direct messaging. Even if I wanted to contact you to chat, the only way would be to register on those external apps I mentioned, Element.io or Matrix, which I won't do. And if I did, I already know how they'd think of me, considering how they treated me.
If I wanted to talk to you, my message would get lost.
Your message would not be lost, it recommends usage of Element.io because Lemmy messages aren't end to end encrypted. That doesn't mean the message will be lost it just means admins can see it. That's not a huge drawback though since since the communications being exchanged with the mod are not sensitive data. Just inquiry about moderaiton.
I sent this to you as a private message to demonstrate that messages go through and do not get lost.
I just wanted to clarify about Lemmy's DM system. When you send a DM to someone (like someone named Mark), the only ones that can see it are the admins (Mark's admin and your admin) and you and Mark. In social media like facebook, twitter, tumblr, reddit, deviant art, etc. it is the same only now it is you, Mark, and the entire moderation teams on those social media platforms that can see the messages. "Secure" (seguro) in the message you are seeing means "end to end encrypted", so that only you and Mark can see the messages. This is only possible in Matrix, Signal, Simplex, and XMPP. I am not aware of any popular social media platforms that have end to end encryption for DMs. Even WhatsApp and Telegram are not really trusted. If facebook had to turn over data on you, that would include all of your messages because facebook can read all of your messages on facebook's server, facebook is not secure. People are telling you to use Lemmy's DM because unless you are saying something sensitive (like your real name/address/bank/etc.) while talking to the mod that banned you, you will be fine, it is like sending a message on any other social media. When I make this comment, everyone in the fediverse can see it, but if I sent you a DM, only me, you, my admin team, and your instance's admin can see it. Your message will not get lost.
I know it can be confusing at first, but you are only banned in one community on one server, there are many other communities you can interact with that will appreciate your art.
Uh... Why me? I don't know what to say about that.
A thank you would be nice, since I helped you fix the issue about not being able to see the modlog details.
you were upset you didn't have access to the tool that other user was using to audit and demonstrate what was going on. @Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com just gave you access to those tools. i'm pretty sure based on my own experience with photon it would have already worked, but now it will work guaranteed.
no one is trying to hide or obfuscate anything. lemmy just has some unintuitive UI behaviors on the default UI