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this post was submitted on 19 Apr 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:
- 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.
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.
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indeed we’ll have to rely on your memory. do you remember how many times you reported this admin (even across separate comments count) and whether you have reported others multiple times in the same sitting? i would ping the admin somewhere (here or in a thread you might start in /0 governance)
I think a better way would be to just ask the db0 admins since they can see all the reports that went down.
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com @Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com Maybe you could provide the exact copies of the reports made by @nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com, obscuring the resolver if necessary (though since I can see who banned him in t.lemmy.dbzer0.com I'm not sure how much privacy that would give).
I think we might want to do a governance post at that point.
Yeah I agree, @nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com OP a governance post is probably the best thing to do about this, it'll bring the most clarity here, especially since this case is about the instance itself.
If anyone does this, please make it a non-voting thread first as things are a biy vague still I believe.
Don't Lemmy modlogs only tell you who received the action (i.e. who was banned), even on Tesseract?
Nope Tesseract shows the mod who did it when you're logged in to the instance you're viewing it from. I believe some apps also show the mod names as well, I know Photon and Voyager do.
Interesting you see that. For me (logged in on my db0 alt) on Tesseract there is a moderator column but it's empty even for local actions and Photon doesn't even give me a moderator section.
See if you can see it on your dbzer0 account now. I just added you as a mod to the modeveryone community.
ooooh indeed. hypothesis confirmed.
now time to unleash the FURY of AA TUBE upon a DEFENSELESS community with its PLUNDER TROVE that is TWO THREADS! /j
That's weird, maybe a bug or maybe it requires you to be a mod to see it?
it's possible I reported the user two or three times, but it might have been only once.
Lemmy reports can only go through once, you can't report someone multiple times unless you use multiple accounts.
... or report separate comments
I mean you can report multiple comments, but as I said in my other comment about that unless you reported like 50 comments (common sense says that reporting multiple comments in a discussion thread wouldn't be anywhere near report abuse thresholds) it would be PTB to ban someone for reporting multiple comments in a discussion. You want people to report violating content and not be worried about action for that, sometimes violating content spans multiple comments at once.
That would be PTB from the admin, especially for an instance-wide ban.
I have no way of knowing which admin did the ban
Oh yeah, I forgot about that Lemmy modlog quirk. I really wonder why that's not open to users if the purpose is transparency. Mbin's modlog tells you who initiated the action, though the "tradeoff" quirk is you can't see the reason provided, plus I would probably have to leaf through pages 12–18 to find that action. A post at governance will probably have the admins of db0 find out who did it and investigate.
I didn't report the admin. I reported a user on a different instance.