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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.

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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.

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.

YTPB 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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Banned for voting the wrong way (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago (18 children)

I wrote the script. You opened a post in a community and downvoted every comment. That's what the message is telling you

That means you really don't like the community, fair enough.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

These posts are very difficulty to evaluate, because it could be that the mods are paranoid, and reading the votes wrong, or the bans are legit and you're just lying about it. 🤷

[+] [email protected] -8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

check my modlog and comment history, I've never been on those communities. And since when was voting a bannable offense? One worthy of bans from multiple communities, but only on a single instance? This is your community, what is it for if not this? And what could I possibly be lying about?

It's one thing to be sceptical, it's another thing entirely to be wilfully credulous.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You got instance banned, this is how this is displayed on the modlog. You also seem awfully upset about someone saying there's no way to tell if you're lying. You need to chill a bit.

Also Not being in those comms won't prevent you from downvoting everything in them.

Finally I didn't tell you not to post, nor did I speak as a mod. I just expressed my personal opinion. Your reaction to it however is quite the escalation.

Ps: our instance recently also voted to sanction downvote trolls. So yes, absolutely, some types of voting can get admin attention.

[+] [email protected] -16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

no, an instance ban is different, it reads on a single line and is different from a community ban. this is multiple bans from several communities.

Feels like you are looking for problems here. I didn't downvote a bunch of random posts on unrelated communities in a single instance, because doing that would be fucking insane.

It's not like I'm talking about a ban that can be rationalised, I'm talking about a ban that legitimately makes no fucking sense, even if I had some kind of agenda. what would be my reason for mass downvoting unrelated communities on a small server no one has even fucking heard of?

as I said before; It’s one thing to be sceptical, it’s another thing entirely to be wilfully credulous.

Stop being this wilfully credulous on something so clearly open and shut; it should be below you, if you are actually capable of moderating a community. This is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

no, an instance ban is different, it reads on a single line and is different from a community ban. this is multiple bans from several communities.

Lemmy has a feature to issue community bans when issuing site bans to remote users. Also some instances use scripts to apply community bans in tandum with site bans since site bans don't hard prevent participation in those communities on its own.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Disengage

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Unlikely, but are you using an unusual app? Maybe there's a gesture that is triggering down votes when you're navigating?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I use vivaldi on my desktop and summit on my phone (great app btw, give it a go if you havent :) )

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm on Voyager at the moment. Vivaldi is better?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Vivaldi is nice, its chromium but I consider it a holiday from firefox; I'll either return to gecko or migrate to ladybird when it releases. As far as google based browsers, it's still memory heavy, but it justifies it with the integrated extras better than opera does.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I am also banned from a ton of dubvee communities for some reason.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

no idea who these guys are, but I've not been systematically downvoting anyone.

edit:

ironic :D

all seem to be dubvee.org, is this a potential federation issue?

edit 2: also trans rights, BLM, free Palestine, Ukraine is a sovereign nation, bigotry is wrong. just to be clear, I see a lot of people complaining about being banned and their shitty rhetoric reveals them. I try to be an ally, these bans are not warranted, likely a butthurt right winger.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

A bot was likely involved somewhere in the process (and with tons of potential for false positives), possibly even if it picked up something outside of dubvee. Though that is not the automated message (and I suspect they'd stand behind it even if it were a low amount of votes).

Not sure if it's what you meant, but some of the bans like this stop all of activity from being visible to dubvee users.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Gonna be honest, whether it's a bot or not, the idea of banning people for voting on posts or comments in some way you don't like is deeply funny to me.

"YOU'RE INFLUENCING THE MADE-UP INTERNET POINTS THAT DON'T MATTER! EEEEEEK!"

even I'm not so terminally online.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

I mean if all someone does is go to communities to downvote every single post, it is clear that they are having an agenda, rather than interacting with the content in a fair way.

As there is an algorithm pushing things to "hot" or "active" in the local and all feeds based on votes, it does have an influence on the visibility of posts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

The points are made up and thankfully we don't have similar karma system as reddit, but your overall received upvote/downvote score ratio between a certain timespan is being evaluated by automod bots, because lemmy is still developing better moderation tools.

Info about the one bot I know: https://slrpnk.net/post/11069853

Edit: added word.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I understand the impetus, but the execution seems to be extremely flawed. If I'm being flagged for mass downvoting, then it flags people who vote no more than around 20-30 times per day. I dont use lemmy a lot, I just browse maybe once or twice a day.

I thought this was something worth mentioning, because it fit the community so obviously. but honestly, after this post, being hounded by the mod of this forum and the twat who wrote the shitty broken script, I'm gonna go back to lurking.