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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.
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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YDI, what did you expect from going there and downvoting all or even most of the contend there? You are aware that mass-downvoting is considered an act of aggression against communities, as it's literally an attempt to downrank their content in the feeds. Many instance admins also don't take kindly to this either, which is probably why they instance banned you from there. This instance that YPTB is hosted on is literally voting for a rule change banning brigading, and many more in the future will likely follow.
If you dislike all of a community's content, you should use the function to block communities. If you believe it is against the rules you should report it by reaching out to admins. Spamming downvotes won't help in either case, it won't make you stop seeing it, and it won't address problematic or rule-breaking content. It just makes you seem like a bot or a troll.
I did not mass downvote, idiot, read the fucking post.
So if I ask an admin to look through your account's DB voting history it wouldn't show a ton of downvotes directed at some Dubvee community, right? I mean you can say yeah but you can't exactly prove that. And I've found that people banned for downvote brigading argue that they weren't doing it because they're still under the impression mods and admins can't see votes. Which we can, and have been for a long time.
yeah go for it, I'd honestly love to see what I did. Please, if thats a thing you can do I'd be very grateful. This thread has been a fucking debacle. what a mistake to take part instead of lurking. If I did something wrong I'd love to know for future reference. fuck me this is exhausting.
Nah, Instead I'm just going to go report your behavior to them. Your behavior here is more than ban-worthy on multiple instances. I'm sure @EllaSpiggins@lemm.ee would agree, as it violates the first Primary rule of lemm.ee "No Abusive Language".