this post was submitted on 21 Aug 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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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.

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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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I'm not a troll, I just call other people out for their BS.

I think most of lemmy.today is bad faith astroturfing.

This is not the first time !PapaSkwat@lemmy.today has preemptively banned me from a community I'm pretty sure I've never interacted with.

This is a warning for others. Do not assume posts on Lemmy.today are real or in good faith.


Here is a related post with similar circumstances.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/57218230

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[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 52 points 2 months ago (21 children)

OMG who gives a shit about voting, these people are out of their minds

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm pretty sure I never voted on a single post from that community, but I did down vote one of that mods posts one time and was banned from a lot of communities they mod immediately after. I guess I'm on their premature block list or something.

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

The number of comms I've never heard of before, but already been banned from is too damn high! Most of them are .ml, though, so it's kind of expected.

But also a few because some powermod got super-salty about me downvoting their AI slop posts. No other interaction, just a few downvotes.

How thin-skinned do you have to be to go around banning people from every comm you have control over because somebody downvoted your post?

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[–] churrodestroyer@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I was literally just in a ModAbuse comm complaining about the same person! I got the pre-ban as well, as if I wanted to join a comm about celebrating mediocrity.

DonaldJMusk is a troll and a baby.

[–] MrNobody@quokk.au 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

ModAbuse is a satire comm fyi

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 15 points 2 months ago

Lol, I didn't know but that explains some things

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[–] imadethis@fedinsfw.app 4 points 2 months ago

Wow, there's a name I haven't thought about in a while. When I briefly had an account on lemmy.today, I was always struck by all the posts when I logged in and saw the local feed.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, it's a PTB for sure. Skwat is hinky as fuck often enough that even though a preemptive ban isn't automatically PTB, them doing so makes me assume it is until proven otherwise.

Mind you, I ain't hatin, just pointing out that the mod in question is of uncertain motivation imo.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Their behavior in the other thread and this one is incredibly telling

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[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Feels more like lemmy.today is just a terrible place

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 13 points 2 months ago

Man, I wonder how many crappy comms I've never heard of have banned me because I downvote something that appeared on the front page?

Haha, fuck 'em.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

doesnt seem like community anyone should use anyway if they have admins like that. so maybe he did you a favor?

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not complaining that I was banned from the community, I'm issuing a general PSA.

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wait, did they label you a fascist too? I mean ad-homs/pejoratives like that tell me all I need to know.

"I wouldn't be a member of any club that would have me".

I'd wear the ban proudly.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 11 points 2 months ago

I had tagged the mod previously

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It looks like OP has tagged the mod as fascist?

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 7 points 2 months ago
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[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

How much of a loser would a person need to be to look at voting patterns to do pre-emptive bans?

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah Lemmy mods really have nothing better to do

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, I think it is more insidious.

Astroturfing

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] NewPerspective@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://lemmy.world/post/40009107

PapaSkwat exists on half a dozen different instances. A good number of them post in news and political comms in addition to a bunch of plain things meant to water down their feed. They mod a bunch of those comms and feature/unfeature posts to manipulate the modlog. Not to mention they're doing this with about a dozen accounts. The loser even admitted it in a DM.

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