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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.


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  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).
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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.

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I was not posting on their instance communities much recently after I promised to pause. The first modlog warning did not reach my inbox on a mobile app using Piefed.ca then the head admin responds a bit too aggressively then makes 3-day warning bans from communities that they personally moderate.

Original warning that I was not notified about in my inbox:

Callout by top admin of Beehaw:

3-day warning bans.

Sources:

https://feddit.uk/post/35173969

https://web.archive.org/web/20250909023333/https://feddit.uk/post/35173969

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[–] Cort@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] shades@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

"When metrics become targets they are no longer metrics" /s

[–] Blaze@lazysoci.al 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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+

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, where does it indicate this is about posts outside the instance?

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The communications you posted are all about beehaw though. What makes you think it was about other communities? Did they explicitly say that?

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

However the ban came out of nowhere for posting outside their instance.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It looks like I was instance banned:

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

You're better off off there

[–] Nima@leminal.space 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 16 points 2 months ago

The instance banning of someone for being active outside their instance communities is not okay when I followed the callout.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I recommend checking the local feed of Beehaw as that’s their place of jurisdiction.

[–] kip@piefed.zip -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

YDI. avg 25 posts a day just on this account is spambot behaviour. how are you called sunshine when you never see any

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

25 posts is relatively normal for social media usage

[–] kip@piefed.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Might not be too unusual if it included replies/comments but this is just top level posts

[–] UniversalMonk@anarchist.nexus 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kip@piefed.zip -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

everyone

not me

mad

not me

content

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