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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:

  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.

YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.


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Banned over fish joke (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

UPDATE: The Unbans are showing up on modlog now.:

unban log screenshot

~~I have traded the month-long ban in the many communities for a 6-day ban in [email protected], which is a more reasonable ban~~. this ban has also been lifted now. I appreciate the cooperation from the mod over this misunderstanding.


So it seems i've gotten a month-long ban in..... over 30 communities across lemmy.dbzer0.com, sopuli.xyz, lemmy.ca, programming.dev, and several others, for this comment here.

Screen cap of comment for posterity:

It's directly replying to a comment saying they can't imagine why anyone thought otherwise about fish feeling pain, which is reasonable. You might notice the quotation marks, because it's satirizing people's mental gymnastics about fishes' pain perception. It was meant in jest, exclusively.

It seems likely that a single mod took this joke wrong and chose to ban me on every community they have control over.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I didn't know PETA modded communities on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Yikes, a mass ban over multiple communities for that? PTB

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

Ada used to do this too before people started speaking up

Mods and admins will always find a way to trip over the smallest amount of power.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You have no right to attack Ada for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I do, she's been a bad admin who's made petty decisions and deserves to be criticized

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The ban across multiple communities is not intentional. I just meant to ban them from [email protected]. I was not used to Tesseract's ui. But even that was definitely jumping the gun upon rereading the joke.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would you ban them from !vegan though, considering the comment was made in another community entirely? Even if we assume the comment was serious, you're basically saying the rules of the !vegan comm extend across the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The op’s comment was fine. My thought process was to avoid problematic users from entering a community they’re not ready to respectfully engage with, no one should have to explain themselves to the individuals who are engaging in bad faith. Notice how the bans are temporary.

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

Sunshine, this is problematic on so many levels, I'm not even sure where to start :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Not a fan of preemptive strikes for comments or posts made in different communities..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

But it isn't a given. Drowning is supposed to be one of the least painful ways die. Which is taking a animal adapted to breath arit and putting them in water.

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

Least painful? According to what?

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

The people who drowned, of course! They look so peaceful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

And when polled, none of them disagreed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

To be fair we did send the interviewers down there too.
Although I don't believe they disagreed either.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

That is golden 😂

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago

Stay away from the vegan comms until you learn how to engage the topic in good faith

https://lemmy.ca/post/45328032/16936477

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Y'know, concentrating power in the hands of a single person / group defeats the purpose of decentralisation.

I can understand if the damage is limited to communities within a single instance, but when a ban is so far-reaching - across so many instances - it makes me wonder what's the point of choosing Lemmy over, say, Reddit.

It's still the same problem again, just with different people in charge - like Bluesky vs Twitter.

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

lemmy fixes admin abuse, not mod abuse.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It doesn't "fix" admin abuse either - see feddit.org situation. It only helps with admin abuse as the bans apply to part of the universe rather that to the entire Lemmy.

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

Yes, that's how it fixes it. You cannot be banned from lemmy, only individual servers.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That is not "fixing". It is partial remedy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Mods can accidentally hit the ban all option on the Tesseract frontend. Accidents do happen.

Distrust me if you want to.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

how did OP get banned in servers from so many different instances?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not every ban is done in good faith like op has rightfully called out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

that is not an answer to the question I asked

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tesseract has an option to ban an user across multiple comms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Just say the truth, you wanted punitive action. Now go ahead and ban me as well on any way communities you mod I don't want to ever hear of you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

thats why lemmy needs to adopt a crowd sourced, prestige based moderation system and get rid of individual mods

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah no, this would not work well. Minorities often experience being downvoted in great number and out-ratioed by those that have no understanding of what they go through (your regular lemmy user). It would just result in the ultimate echo chamber where largely only liberal white cishets have anything to say. At least as things are now queers can have a queer instance and feel safe there, even if things are not ideal.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry no, it's clear no one here is capable of rational thought. Maybe consider researching what a prestige based moderating system is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Tell us rather than insult us? There's nothing useful on the first page of results if I search for "prestige based moderating system" in duckduckgo.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Why shouldn't I insult you?

Literally every idea I've ever shared on lemmy that wasn't 100% mainstream accepted resulted in hours to days of harassment and comment stalking with zero mod support. None of you want to expand your understanding of anything, you just want your biases confirmed.

You can check my fucking post history if you think I'm lying.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You get what you give, and that's a lot of anger and vitriol. People would be a lot more willing to listen to you if you didn't constantly get upset and rage at everybody and pretend like you're above everyone else. If it smells like shit everwhere you go, check your shoe.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If it smells like shit everwhere you go, check your shoe.

Oh so what you're saying is reddit isn't getting fascist, I'M the fascist.

Clever

or no, the opposite

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, I didn't say anything like that all. Why are you putting words in my mouth?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

I literally fucking quoted your earlier post.

I'm so done with lemmy

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