this post was submitted on 28 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:

  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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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I sometimes block obnoxious people, but I only block myself from seeing them, right? Their newer comments will still be visible for anyone else. I guess the fediverse cannot handle real blocking of people, right ?

I mean I can understand (not in OPs case) sometimes you want to ban a person, not just block them (again, not in OPs situation, that's just a childish mod).

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Correct.

You can also, before you block them as a user, look and see what they mod, if anything.

Block all those comms, then, block the user.

If everyone were to adopt a paradigm like this, active engagement with the... way that lemmy works, to express displeasure with certain people or comms...

You end up with a kind of dynamic equilibrium... people who are disliked, disagreed with... their comms just stagnate.

But, the whole trick is convincing people that... their engagement with lemmy as a system, as a collection of basically message boards run by people... well, it requires active engagement, if you don't want it to redditify, ossify into cliques of ludicrous powermods.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lemmy doesn’t, PieFed does.

If you block someone on PieFed their replies to your comment won’t federate out of the instance they posted it on.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Do you have any contact with quokk.au admin? There's a serious problem with the troll using quokk.au as the instance in which to spam from.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you a mod there? Are you Quokk.. or?

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 points 1 day ago

IRL friends. I rang them.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How does that interaction with moderation I wonder, like, if you moderate a place, you presumably need to be able to see what is going on in it, to see if something breaching whatever conduct standards you have has been posted. If you have a bunch of users that you can't see, doesn't that undermine your ability to do that?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

That's a very good question. It might explain why modos ban people instead of blocking them actually.