this post was submitted on 07 Jul 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.


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Recently entered the platform and already got recognized by one of the top modblog contributors - the MysticMushroom1776 @lemmy.dbzer0.com. And I got the title troll in so much communities. And I haven't posted there even once.

But, as I understood from the modblog, getting a ban from this moderator is very common and thus doesn't feel like something special. Especially, since there are no direct requirements specified for receiving it. And in private messages I was unsuccessful in getting answers.

So, maybe here can the moderator give the whole list of what to do(or not to do) to gain such attention, so that other people can/can't get it too? Because of the rules for comunities don't give enough info.

Thanks in advance.

P. S. Made post more serious.

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[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Holy PTB, Batman

I assumed you were downvoting them left, right, center, up, down, and sideways. Yeah. You downvoted them one time, at 2:35AM (not sure which timezone). You received your "automated ban" 1 hour and ~15 minutes later.

Hell, looking at ALL your voting, you seem more reliable of a voter than I am.

This is petty-level power tripping.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 1 points 14 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

I see at least several downvotes on MM via lemvotes within a couple minutes. I didn't dig through all their vote history, but I would wager there's probably more in there somewhere.

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I got that one! The piece of shit called me 'neoliberal' instead of troll, which is kind of slander and I'm more upset about than the bans.

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

Yeah, I got banned for being an AI troll despite not posting in any of their coms and not trolling anywhere else. Kinda seems they just take any negative AI sentiment anywhere as proof of trolling or antagonistic behavior.

The thing that really confuses me though is the Europe com. I can understand wanting to make your safe little slop spaces, but to then just have one called "Europe" which should have absolutely nothing to do with AI be a mandated pro AI com is just weird controlling behavior.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I think I remember that Europe community being created because of heavy handed moderation on .world's Europe. DBZ was supposed to be the "free" instance that didn't have that problem.

As you say, most of those are fringe slop communities and who cares if they're heavy handed in their little fiefdoms, but they definitely shouldn't be running a continent wide place community. If that Europe ever took off they need to get rid of them or move again.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

I think large communities should elect mods each year

I don't think they're literate. I got banned from the same list for neoliberalism. I'm not even sure they know what that means.

[–] RollyJeho@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

This moderator likes to ban in all of their communities at the same time. I suppose that this is some kind of insecurity to prevent revenge towards them in a form of inappropriate behavior in other communities. This does prevents banned person to interact with them in their comunities, but doesn't prevent of doing so in other, like here. Normal people send a warning or something firstly, not instant permaban. This is what makes this moderator a questionable person.

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

In the case of this mod though, there's not even anything to warn against. They just don't understand online discourse and are knee jerkingly overly reactive.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 3 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

probably has something to do with you downvoting a ton of their comments. judging from the cringe teenage edgelord tone of this post, seems like they were right about you being a troll, whether or not the ban was deserved.

you also seem to have a tendency to downvote leftist content while upvoting liberal content that's trashing leftists of some kind or another. which might not raise any eyebrows for people from LW or other Zio trash servers, but is going to raise some eyebrows on this server.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

The reason should be spam activity in that case

[–] RollyJeho@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

LOL. I have used this style of writing because of the rest of the posts in this channel are kinda depressed. But, agree. Maybe I should remove emoji. But I definitely haven't trolled anyone here, yet(I assume you actually need to post something like comments or post). Preferences in upvoting and downvoting shouldn't be connected to banning in any matter. So the only thing is left the fact that I dislike some posts and comments of this moderator. But I wouldn't say that there was like a tonn of them. I only discovered recent posts + lurked a bit here. If downvoting here in reasonable amounts for disagreement is considered being a troll, than this is not as happy place as I imagined it.

Nope. That's not it. That mod is just a ptb piece of shit.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Double PTB. Nothing show you trolling on any of those communities and if you did you should only be banned in the single community where you not respected the rule

[–] RollyJeho@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The fun part is that I, as I am now starting to suspect, have shown "too much" disagreement with posts and comments of this moderator. But, in the same time, not less have I disliked/liked others. So it seems that it was skne kind of auto ban for too much dislikes.

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I rarely vote on posts and got banned for being 'neoliberal' by what looks like this same bucket of fermented piss. An epithet I take some offense at. I haven't even seen any of their posts, I think they're one of the first people I blocked.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 1 points 5 minutes ago

you seriously need to chill the fuck out.

[–] therealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I was just banned from the same bunch of comms, probably by the same PTB - apparently, being anti-pig and being anti-British empire qualifies one as "Anti-AI Trolling on AI friendly Instance dbzer0"

I think it's time to admit that, as an experiment in non-corporate controlled social media, it seems that lemmy has failed... the "Power Tripping Mod" problem isn't superficial - it's fundamental.

[–] RollyJeho@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Probably. It is logical that nothing stops all kinds of people to appear in different types of platforms. Especially if we consider that lemmy is basically a union of hundreds different instances, each one being its own mini platform.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world -3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Its OK, most of those communities are just AI trash. They've done you a favour with the ban.

[–] RollyJeho@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I am OK with someone having their personal blogs in which they post whatever they want. I am not okay with this instant banning policy without a warning. If this was an automated decision like in Reddit, than OK. I suppose, that I can deal with it once I speak with this mod. Otherwise, this is not a user-friendly policy.

Lol this bucket of fermented cat piss isn't gonna be reasonable.

Except the ones that aren't. And the called me something unforgiveable in mine.