Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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.
Rules
- 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.
Relevant comms
I didn't know PETA modded communities on Lemmy
Yikes, a mass ban over multiple communities for that? PTB
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.
You have no right to attack Ada for that.
I do, she's been a bad admin who's made petty decisions and deserves to be criticized
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.
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.
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.
Sunshine, this is problematic on so many levels, I'm not even sure where to start :/
Not a fan of preemptive strikes for comments or posts made in different communities..
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.
Least painful? According to what?
The people who drowned, of course! They look so peaceful.
And when polled, none of them disagreed.
To be fair we did send the interviewers down there too.
Although I don't believe they disagreed either.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog/1485815?page=1&actionType=All
IMHO this mod is out of control
That is golden 😂
Stay away from the vegan comms until you learn how to engage the topic in good faith
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.
lemmy fixes admin abuse, not mod abuse.
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.
Yes, that's how it fixes it. You cannot be banned from lemmy, only individual servers.
That is not "fixing". It is partial remedy.
Life isn't perfect.
Sadly.
Mods can accidentally hit the ban all option on the Tesseract frontend. Accidents do happen.
Distrust me if you want to.
how did OP get banned in servers from so many different instances?
Not every ban is done in good faith like op has rightfully called out.
that is not an answer to the question I asked
Tesseract has an option to ban an user across multiple comms.
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
thats why lemmy needs to adopt a crowd sourced, prestige based moderation system and get rid of individual mods
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.
Sorry no, it's clear no one here is capable of rational thought. Maybe consider researching what a prestige based moderating system is.
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.
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.
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.
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
No, I didn't say anything like that all. Why are you putting words in my mouth?
I literally fucking quoted your earlier post.
I'm so done with lemmy