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.

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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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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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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 17 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (6 children)

I also got banned from some communities for "systematic downvoting". I'd estimate I've downvoted maybe 5 or so posts by a moderator promoting a harmful diet, which was apparently enough for being "systematic". The mod also banned me from other random communities I had never interacted with in the first place. But oh well, nothing of value was lost for me. Just kinda sucks that mods can use this to make it seem like their statements are less controversial than they are.

[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy (and Reddit) are a collection of little dictatorships. But dictatorship is bad, I think, maybe.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The true power of the fediverse is that little dictatorships should, in principle, balance out each other

[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That's like vodka with a vodka chaser. It's the opposite of balance.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

Often a larger problem can be solved by lots of smaller problems being at cross purposes

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[–] ipitco@lemmybefree.net 39 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

the whole "if you don't like the content, don't downvote, but just ignore / block it" is really cringe

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I don't use upvotes to express my support, I upvote when a contribution was insightful, interesting or funny and downvote when I find the contribution off topic, not helpful or diverting/trollish.

If I personally find something uninteresting, I block. And report if something is against the communities the rules/TOS/law.

[–] ipitco@lemmybefree.net 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

To each their own I guess

Downvoting posts in the All feed isn’t that bad, as it reduces their visibility if you believe it doesn’t interest you at all and probably ~~most~~ won’t interest many other people, so you let a chance to other posts to show up

Edit: typo

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I think big level at the feed, down votes help control what is interesting conversation pieces and not and then in the comments it should be related to how on topic or useful or fun to the conversation presented by the original item.

There is some extremely childish behavior on Lemmy in regards to downvotes and in response to them as well.

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[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 7 points 17 hours ago

They are not so much punishing you as cultivating a vote farm. You are just a weed here.

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 18 points 21 hours ago (13 children)

Honestly. Doing this when someone makes dozens of downvotes is ridiculous and stupid. Doing this with a single downvote is… I can't even begin to fathom how unimaginably stupid and ridiculous that is.

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[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That mods/admins can even see who is downvoting is, by far, my least favorite thing about Lemmy.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago

These comments are an eye opening experience for me; and I’m not sure I like that feature. It seems whatever the good it does, it’s open for endless abuse because at the end of the day, we are all human and petty at times.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It is an invariable aspect of lemmy though. It is open source. Anyone can make a server. The servers need to have a database for the up- downvotes and they need the info specific to the user, so it can't just be said by another instance "heres 1000 downvotes, deal with it".

E.g. on reddit and any other corporate social media the admins can also see exactly who up- and downvoted stuff.

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 9 points 22 hours ago (8 children)

Admins, not mods. Enormous distinction here. And I don't understand why that information can't be anonymized or attached to a user identifying number rather than username, but I will admit I'm not a develop not a sysadmin so I am a layman speaking outside my field here.

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