this post was submitted on 09 Jul 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.


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.

Rules


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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Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All (potentially accidentally while scrolling).

Important notes:

  1. I don't use scripts.
  2. I don't mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don't like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on.
  3. Some of the communities I was banned from don't have any posts in them so I wouldn't have been able to downvote anything.
  4. Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It's quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette.
  5. One of my bans reads "Appeal Granted, not a brigading member" but I'm still banned.
  6. I don't troll.

WTF is going on here?

EDIT - Updated Info from the conversation below: In the initial image, you can see two "ban waves."

The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community. It was @Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477

I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.

The other bans from two months ago are from four total downvotes over a 10-month timeframe in one Community.

I have also stated in this thread that I don't have issues with AI-gen images, but there are shoddy ones and well-done ones.

EDIT 2: Now unbanned from the ten Communities listed as "3 months ago" in my initial image, but have been banned from three more because of this thread with the reason given being "self-proclaimed anti-AI brigader" which are two things I didn't claim to be. God dammit Lemmy...

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

.blahaj admins/mods will ban you from every space they control for any reason they don't like you. They will then just say that person was a bigot to try to avoid drama.

They do not have consistent moderation policies, and use their small amount of power maliciously.

They try to curate a group of people who will not question them and will tribalisticly defend the space no matter what.

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 16 hours ago

.blahaj admins/mods will ban you from every space they control

I don't moderate any communities outside of blahaj.

[–] ipitco@lemmybefree.net 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Finally someone that speaks out

the amount of gaslighting they do is enormous

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And that group of people seem quite pleased with Ada's strategy, she's one of the most well loved moderators I've ever seen in any community.

If you don't like it, that's fine. The space isn't for you.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't expect a community of handpicked loyalists to be unhappy with their idol.

If you don't like it, that's fine. The space isn't for you.

This is the exact type of passive agressive tribalism she curates. Thanks for being the example i guess.

I agree I don't feel safe there, it's better for me to not contribute to that space and let it go the way of the lgbtq subs on reddit with their idol mods who could do no wrong.

[–] ipitco@lemmybefree.net 5 points 1 day ago

settings -> block instance

And then your life will be a bit better