this post was submitted on 30 Sep 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.
- Keep the comments in YPTB posts about the moderation action itself, not about the general topic in which the moderation took place.
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.
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Make an alt here then sib.
.worldis one of those AmeEigoAuth grammarian instances. If you don't follow their gweiloyu, they mark all you posts as «Spam» and ban you.ic ic.
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We’ll probably agree in a lot of things too. I got extreme slack from threadie for calling language a tool, especially when endangered linguists decide to collectively end it. It felt like faux-concern, or how gen Z calls it now “concerned trolling.” If they didn't want the language to die, they wouldn't have let it rot, or Rosetta stone graph it. Language is only as good as people use it. Conlang et al..
I guess I’m currently in the ignoring it phase then, given that this is the first I’m hearing of it. Quokk is on my list of next instances, but ideally I’m holding out for a German language instance that accepts criticism of Israel (I can dream). If I get banned from world before that happens, I’ll check quokk out. My main concern about it has been time zones, because I get stressed out when I feel like I should have responded more quickly - is most of the traffic in line with Australian times?
I’ve got accounts on a bunch of instances though, and while I do absolutely get the criticisms of .world, I just don’t use it for my more radical ideas; it’s mostly the memes instance for me (I definitely do check up on the memes I get on my .ml/beehaw frontpage, but I find them too depressing/aware to be my main source of memes).
Pragmatically, I’ll grant them that moderation and administration are voluntary positions, and if they can’t find any volunteers who speak a given language, it’s near impossible to moderate posts and comments in that language, and if user X insists user Y is being abusive, it can be incredibly difficult to determine if it’s actually the case, and then you run the risk of either ignoring the abuse of user X or enabling X’s abuse of user Y through the report button.
That said, .world is big enough that if smaller (international) instances can moderate in a given language, they should be able to do the same.
Def. create the community here then. Quokk.au was forked for anti-genocide & anti-apartheid praxis. We were there when
.worldwas defending Zionism. When they merged into Zion camp, many users emigrated.don't be. threadiverse as a whole is very understanding that everyone is different, and can only allot so much time to engaging with others. Everyone here that I am aware of treats threadie like email: “we will respond when its convenient.”
originally. I slowly turning to Ame times, then European. It all depends on syndicates.
not in piefed, .ml, and FHF😅. They have paid moderation. pylova, our fork of piefed, is not financially independent to hire moderation at the moment, but we would appreciate the mutual aid if viable.
Yeah, I strongly disagree with .world’s (and feddit.org’s) views on Zionism, but I just compartmentalize my usage based on my account instance. I’m also personally against the death penalty, which seems to make me pretty unremarkable for most .world mods, even though I’m definitely not against hoping some people die (it’s sadly actually too long a list to make here, but it includes multiple whole professions).
Huh, TIL. Glück im Unglück, I’m too poor to have ever sent them or sadly you guys money.
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