this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2026
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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.
YPTB 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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Don't act like they just ban anyone who downvotes anything. You've been banned three times for vote spam, and you're literally notorious for downvoting
Edit:
Sources:
https://lemmy.zip/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=22809396
https://lemvotes.org/user/frongt@lemmy.zip
Lemvotes isn't definitive. But damn that's lopsided for sure.
Even so, what does it matter? Where is the indication that a user with a high downvote ratio is doing anything harmful, let alone worthy of a permaban?
Edit: Can someone please ban the people downvoting me? I can't deal with this.
There's nothing indicating that specifically. But if you're downvoting THAT much more, it's notable. There are people I see that I regularly downvote for solid reasons. Hypocrisy, whataboutism etc. But vote totals don't get that lopsided without some effort. All that means ultimately it's the ratio is lopsided.
So let's ban those who doesn't downvote enough? /s
It's a stupid argument IMO, and as with all statistics you can show what you want with it. That doesn't mean the person didn't downvote abusively of course, just that you can't tell from global statistics.
NoooOoOo you can only have your say with updoots!!!1
I agree with this. Far as I'm concerned, even if somebody only engages with posts they hate so all of their interactions are downvotes, why the fuck should they be banned? What does forcing faux positivity gain us? Yes I understand the value in stopping vote manipulation bots, but imo there should need to be more evidence of bot status or nefarious intent than just "downvotes a lot."
That's a lot of downvotes!
Oh no, don't use the platform exactly as designed and intended!
Notorious amongst whom? I don't spam votes, I evaluate each item on its merits as I see them.
There's a post about you on the mildly infuriating comm rn
Your apparent 3rd strike for vote spamming suggests otherwise
Please consider curating your feed rather than downvoting content you don't like
My feed is perfectly well curated. But I also downvote (and report) a lot of spam, like actual chatgpt-generated ad spam.
(I also downvote "deleted by creator" comments, but that's just to push them down in the comment trees, because they're just noise. They changed the behavior a while back to leave that instead of actually deleting it when it had no replies, and I wish they'd revert that change.)
Total post upvotes: 19
Total post downvotes: 4656
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"Vote spamming" is actually the stupidest thing I've ever heard on this platform. Oh no, don't engage in the primary way the platform allows! How horrible!
And you people wonder why lemmy hasn't and will never actually take off?
Total post upvotes: 19
Looks like lemmy has absolutely nothing of merit for you, why are you even here?
People aren't under the obligation to upvote posts they like. Personally I don't upvote or downvote a lot of posts either.
Not upvoting is 1 thing. Having a 500:1 downvote:upvote ratio is quite another.
Eh, I'm not sure it's indicative of votespamming though. That can just be a product of how they use Lemmy.
I didn't accuse him of votespamming, only of being a crappy member of the community.
One of the few sensible comments in this shitlib thread