I'd think it's common sense to set a dang number so you can easily point to it and say: you broke this very clear rule on the max frequency of posts.
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
"When metrics become targets they are no longer metrics" /s
I don't know.
Beehaw has always been kind of their own thing, especially defederating LW and SJW.
I wouldn't call it power tripping to want to have a smaller amount of posts per day.
!technology@lemmy.zip is probably a good alternative if you want to avoid the over-centralization on LW. Blahaj should have another one for LGBTQ+
It’s okay to want less posts per day on their instance but it’s not okay to instance ban someone for being active outside their communities.
Sorry, where does it indicate this is about posts outside the instance?
was not posting on their instance communities much recently after I promised to pause.
I was frequently posting us news on !usa@midwest.social instead of !usnews@beehaw.org and yet I was still banned.
Why ban someone who complied with the admin’s comment.
The worry is that this could become permanent because I like posting articles I find interesting. Thanks for asking me to clarify.
The communications you posted are all about beehaw though. What makes you think it was about other communities? Did they explicitly say that?
However the ban came out of nowhere for posting outside their instance.
That’s one possible interpretation but the modlog doesn’t explicitly state this.
Did you make any posts on Beehaw between the above conversation and the banning? Maybe they still considered your reduced rate of posts too high. If not, then I agree that would be very weird.
Either way, I think this is a good argument to have an explicit rule regarding what constitutes “too much” rather than relying on common sense which is highly subjective.
That’s one possible interpretation but the modlog doesn’t explicitly state this.
The modlog doesn't have to state it for it to be the case. Intentions can be masked.
Did you make any posts on Beehaw between the above conversation and the banning? Maybe they still considered your reduced rate of posts too high. If not, then I agree that would be very weird.
I barely made any posts due to the earlier conversation.
Either way, I think this is a good argument to have an explicit rule regarding what constitutes “too much” rather than relying on common sense which is highly subjective.
I agree with that. However a remote poster posting outside their instance should not warrant a ban on their instance for this.
You check the pages of the related comms:
https://beehaw.org/c/technology
https://beehaw.org/c/lgbtq_plus
There's only 1 post from me on !lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org on the front page.
It looks like I was instance banned:


I wouldn't say this is power tripping bastards. They communicated, they're in a dialogue with you, and they did a very temporary ban inline with their communication with you.
Par for the course for Beehaw, they've been known to be overbearing and controlling, apparently even when it isn't any of their business. PTB.
You're better off off there
i don't think they called you out. they just made a request that you not flood the instance with multiple posts.
and the temp ban has expired already. i don't believe this to be a power trip.
The instance banning of someone for being active outside their instance communities is not okay when I followed the callout.
If the narrative presented here is true, then I agree with PTB. And from the presented information, it appears likely. However, there are alternative explanations that haven’t been definitely ruled out, like a delayed ban for past behavior.
If a mod from Beehaw sees this and wants to clarify the reason for the ban, that might help.
You can also check the instance with control-f “sunshine” to see how much I posted between today and 17 days ago to determine if I followed their comment.
To be honest, I tried but couldn't figure out how to do this kind of search, although I was on my instance and maybe I needed to do it directly on Beehaw or something.
I recommend checking the local feed of Beehaw as that’s their place of jurisdiction.
YDI. avg 25 posts a day just on this account is spambot behaviour. how are you called sunshine when you never see any
25 posts is relatively normal for social media usage
Might not be too unusual if it included replies/comments but this is just top level posts
Everyone complains that Lemmy doesn't have enough content. So you're mad when people post content?
IMHO, the more posts, the better as long as it's not advertising.
everyone
not me
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not me
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it's a tangent i don't fancy going on but this everything-is-content must-consume-content view of things is not very healthy imo


