this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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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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Everything I downvoted was because I genuinely do not think it's good. Like meat is not going to cure cancer.

I actually really like eating meat I just try to life a life that gives others room to enjoy this earth too without mutually destroying it.

Please tell me how I am the asshole :)

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

I think you’re right to oppose the carnivore diet however downvoting every post is not the best course of action.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 46 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)
[–] daw@feddit.org 18 points 3 weeks ago

That is objectively funny😂

[–] UniversalMonk 9 points 3 weeks ago

You win the interwebs today!

[–] daw@feddit.org 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Context for the cancer thing. Btw I did not downvote everything but that should not matter

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

I saw that too and was fucking appalled. The kinds of mental gymnastics needed to call something that is itself carcinogenic “the cure for cancer” is fucking ludicrous.

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

We are focused on health and lifestyle while trying to eat zero carb bioavailable foods.

LOL what a joke, my ancestors lived on a diet of almost all bison, but they still needed other foods like nuts and berries and grains. They ate pemmican more then they ate fresh meat. The thing is that once they had to transition to domesticated animals like cows and pigs, the general health went downhill fast. All red meat is not the same.

Eating a lot of meat is not good for you, science has proven this time and time again. The only reason my ancestors were able to live on a full diet of bison is because they ate the whole freakin animal and perserved the meat with berries and nuts (pemmican)

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Never heard of pemmican before, thanks for sharing your knowledge!

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 18 points 3 weeks ago (36 children)

I am pretty sure the carnivore community is just a big troll. Maybe it is some confused people, but it seems on Lemmy more likely to just be people taking the piss out of vegans.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 10 points 3 weeks ago

But not like in a cheeky and fun way, more cruel and tragic

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[–] UniversalMonk 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (14 children)

Brah, it's bad form to just go into a community and start downvoting every single article you see. YDI.

I'm seeing more and more Lemmys doing that to try to control their narrative. Not cool.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

YDI.

If you go around down voting everything, that's not acting in good faith. Down voting the post, yeah, that's one thing and it's perfectly fine to down vote posts that are (to your best knowledge) misinformation.

The problem starts when you go into comment sections and down vote everything. See, if you're doing that, it's ignoring whether or not the comments are on for the post. Disagreement isn't a valid reason to vote bomb an entire comment section. That's what an asshole does.

Now, I have done plenty of down voting in that community. But no blanket knee jerk vote sprees. That's where you cross from reasonable opposition into just trying to fuck with people.

It doesn't even matter what the topic is for this community. It isn't about validating or invalidating your opinion of subject, it's about whether or not the mod action was justified based on your actions. And they absolutely were.

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[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t think I’ll be taking any life advice from someone called the Steak and Butter Gal

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd probably hit her up for barbecue advice, though.

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[–] Ganbat 14 points 3 weeks ago (30 children)

YDI

You went to a community you disagree with and downvoted almost everything that was there. Sounds like probable trolling to me.

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[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

YDI, mass downvoting is toxic.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (19 children)

Please tell me how I am the asshole :)

You are not the asshole. As I said in the above post, if you're downvoting everything it's the wrong community for you.

The community is !carnivore@dubvee.org if anyone is interested in participating

I should be explicit - I welcome opposing views, constructive debate, polite back and forth of data and ideas. That is what i live for, that is the power of lemmy.

What I don't tolerate is hostility and making the community unfriendly to new posters. The intention is to create safe space for people to talk about carnivore, so attacking users either via antagonistic messages or downvoting their content isn't going to work for me.

[–] UniversalMonk 7 points 3 weeks ago
[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The community is !carnivore@dubvee.org if anyone is interested in participating

I would, but I'm instance banned from dubvee for being a Luigi supporter

I welcome opposing views, constructive debate, polite back and forth of data and ideas. That is what i live for, that is the power of lemmy.

Methinks you picked a bad instance for that :(

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[–] _cryptagion 11 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

What is with all the twats purposefully going into communities they don't agree with just to be asswaffles?

YDI, and quite frankly I applaud the mod for not putting up with your bullshit and shutting you down before you disrupt their community.

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[–] MysticMushroom1776 10 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

YDI, going into a community to downvote everything is toxic behavior and mods have every right to ban you for it. And they probably should, it's obviously not a good fit for you.

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Vegans are touchy because they are always experiencing the suffering of others through empathy they refuse to tune out. "Carnivores" are touchy because they resent the moral judgement of others.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Carnivores are simply eating more meat to push back against the progress vegans have made to reduce suffering in this world.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

push back against the progress vegans have made

Two people reinforcing their assumptions about a group rather then talking to that group are not going to have a realistic view of the world. It's a bit narcissistic to only view the actions of others in how it relates to you, there are more motivations out there.

For myself, I'm very concerned with reducing human suffering:

trend-lines

Carnivore is a tool, mostly used by people who have very specific problems. I tried to make that very clear in my decision tree post, which you downvoted - which means you read it, right?

[–] nsrxn 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

do you know how I know you haven't read anything jet posts there?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

For some people it's religion - they don't want to see what the heathens are saying. Any non-compliance is dogmatically meet with negativity. I can see why they got into this position, they build their identity and their ethics around their food - the introspection required to have a conversation would also require the ability to cast doubt on their own identity. That is difficult for anyone to do!

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 3 weeks ago (41 children)

Unless the mod is straight up lying about you down voting everything in the thread: YTI.

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[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would agree if you was in a community called nutrition or diet.

[–] technocrit 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

If a sub is explicitly dedicate to disinformation, we should just respect that. \s

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[–] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 5 points 3 weeks ago
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