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.

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.

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Might be low hanging fruit, but I just got banned from memes.ml for saying what instance it's in. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The post in question, if interested:

Also, I don't know how to see which mod/admin banned me, so if you know how to in the modlog, definitely let me know.

Banned for 7 days, so I'm not super mad or anything - I just thought it was funny.

Honestly I don't blame them - I'd be embarrassed about people finding out my community was on .ml too.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

BPR & YDI. It's perfectly reasonable to disklike .ml's moderation practices, but you effectively went into their community just to troll them about it. What did you expect to happen? 7 days seems reasonable to me, and it's only a community ban.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I mean, if you're dangling bait, don't be surprised when the trout start biting.

Bpr, absolutely.

I mean, I get it, ml really does take that extra attention because if the community is there, or a user is from there, chances are that you're going to run into zealotry eventually.

But when you make the effort to poke at the scab, it's not really on them when they poke back.

Truth is, of wouldn't even need to be .ml, if you did something similar anywhere, a temp ban is legit. Shit stirring can only be tolerated so much, so you have to make it clear that is isn't going to work out the way the stirrers want, otherwise it snowballs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

YDI + BPR. Yup, both.

You didn't just say what instance the comm is in; you were clearly implying that it's pointless to engage in good faith there. It falls squarely into rule #2 (be respectful, specially when disagreeing).

At the same time we know how poorly the .ml admin team reacts to things they disagree with. And, even if you were making the comm less welcoming, odds are that you weren't banned for that, but because you rubbed off the admins the wrong way.

EDIT: it's relevant to note that I'm often criticising the .ml admin team, as anyone can see here, here, here, here, here. As such, if I'm blaming the OP in this specific case, it's because I genuinely believe that OP dun goofed. Is this clear?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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Rule 2 on ml: Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.

YDI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wow, that's the real reason why the deleted comment isn't quoted in the original post. That's clear YDI case, the moderator did a good job by kicking out the bad faith troll.