this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
-6 points (44.2% liked)

Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

1720 readers
4 users here now

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.


Some acronyms you might see.


Relevant comms

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Context: a thread about what instance to reccomend.

Turns out talking about .ml users excusing Russian war crimes and Iranian crimes against humanity is not OK in c/asklemmy. Nor is mocking defederated Hexbears on alt accounts who literally admit to sealioning XD

Seems a tale older than FidoNet, we must remember we're one take a ModGod dislikes away from GOODBYE!

top 37 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Doing a ban then quick unban to remove comments so they don't show in the modlog feels kind of abusive. It's exploiting a flaw of Lemmy to prevent the removed comments from showing up.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 days ago

One of the biggest reasons why I dislike lw is they constantly just scrub removed comments from mod log

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

And if calling people out for sealioning is against the rules, why not just straight ban me? Why ban and insta-unban, just to quietly remove the comments and then not have a ban appeal another mod might see?

Makes no sense really.

[–] pelikan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

After reading the original post, one might assume that the community in question is !asklemmy@lemmy.ml , but after checking the modlog it becomes clear that deal is about !asklemmy@lemmy.world

Since there are no deleted comments in the modlog, there are two options: either .world moderators are now protecting all the .ml narratives and it's PTB then, or this comment was such low quality shitposting that is was unacceptable even by .world standards, and in this case it's clear YDI if not YDM.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We don't know who owns these instances. It could be anyone.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lol, I would not know even how to turn on each thing that needs to be turned on.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

That's exactly what someone who owns the instance would say! We're on to you!

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What was your comment about Iran was it only legitimate condemnation of the regime authoritarianism or did you mention support for the united snakes intervention?

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You should post a link

It also seems like you were the sealion

I'm not a fan of removing comments with ban so the mod fucked up there

Im gonna call this BPR, but you also deserved some action, I just cant see how bad your comments were