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Banned for voting the wrong way
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this post was submitted on 09 May 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.
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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.
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- 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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A bot was likely involved somewhere in the process (and with tons of potential for false positives), possibly even if it picked up something outside of dubvee. Though that is not the automated message (and I suspect they'd stand behind it even if it were a low amount of votes).
Not sure if it's what you meant, but some of the bans like this stop all of activity from being visible to dubvee users.
Gonna be honest, whether it's a bot or not, the idea of banning people for voting on posts or comments in some way you don't like is deeply funny to me.
"YOU'RE INFLUENCING THE MADE-UP INTERNET POINTS THAT DON'T MATTER! EEEEEEK!"
even I'm not so terminally online.
One in that list has 5 or so members and attracts about -20 votes on every post and comment. It's unpleasant to visit a community where every post and comment is at -15, even if they're "imaginary points" it makes the community hard to sort
Since Jet started enforcing the "no mass down voting" rule automatically things sit at 0 to +5.
Exactly. It's not about fake internet points it's about making a safe space where the lurkers feel comfortable to contribute and participate without getting dogpiled.
It's very much like growing a garden, it has to be tended to, weeded, and protected from local varmints for the young plants to flourish
The script doesn't run on my personal community !interesting@hackertalks.com because im the only poster and I know internet points aren't real. I don't need to encourage others to participate.
I mean if all someone does is go to communities to downvote every single post, it is clear that they are having an agenda, rather than interacting with the content in a fair way.
As there is an algorithm pushing things to "hot" or "active" in the local and all feeds based on votes, it does have an influence on the visibility of posts.
STOP USING THE BUTTONS WE GAVE YOU
The points are made up and thankfully we don't have similar karma system as reddit, but your overall received upvote/downvote score ratio between a certain timespan is being evaluated by automod bots, because lemmy is still developing better moderation tools.
Info about the one bot I know: https://slrpnk.net/post/11069853
Edit: added word.
Reddit system is pretty oppressive right now, hate to see when lemmy reaches that point
I understand the impetus, but the execution seems to be extremely flawed. If I'm being flagged for mass downvoting, then it flags people who vote no more than around 20-30 times per day. I dont use lemmy a lot, I just browse maybe once or twice a day.
I thought this was something worth mentioning, because it fit the community so obviously. but honestly, after this post, being hounded by the mod of this forum and the twat who wrote the shitty broken script, I'm gonna go back to lurking.
Lemmings sure do have as much of an issue or more with the upvote/downvote system.
Its used really poorly and more of just a litmas test for same think.
Truly the title of lemming is appropriate, doubly so since people will likely quote the myth of it here thinking it makes them somehow not a victim of lemming behaviour as used colloquially.
So you would instead be ok with me writing a script that mass downvotes content I don’t like with a few dozen alts so that it doesn’t show up to you?
Because if you want a fediverse that can be exploited by bad actors, I could give it to you. And then you all can enjoy a Lemmy curated by me.
Sounds like someone being careless with their authority to me :D