this post was submitted on 11 Jun 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.
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.
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People don't go directly in a community. They only interact if they find posts in the all feed and interact with individual posts
If you believe that, then why is it a problem?
spam is spam
How is a vote spam?
Why isn't upvoting spam? I have upvoted 10 times as many comments as downvoted, and hundreds of times as many upvotes for posts as comments. Is that spam?
Do words mean anything anymore?
If the votes on the internet don’t matter - then the downvote brigade shouldn’t care they are excluded
If the votes on the internet do matter - then the downvote brigade is being acknowledged that they don’t like this, and are being given their free time back when they are uninvited from the community.
Upvoting and downvoting ton of posts in a single community in short period of time is spam .
Why does the frequency matter?
Is it a ratio to the number of posts?
If I come across a sub with a lot of posts but little engagement should I feel bad for up voting a bunch of them so whoever stumbles across the community next knows someone liked the content?
What if they have 6 posts in the main feed? Should I only up vote one of them to avoid spamming? Do I need to pay more attention to the community and not the post itself to avoid being an upvote spammer?
Should I only upvote a limited number of comments per post or per community?
The whole spam argument makes zero fucking sense outside of multiple people intentionally brigading niche subs, which is bad. An individual voting how they want is completely different from brigading.
This isn't that kind of social media!
Mist of communities has anti spam rules
Point me to a rule that makes it clear that voting is spam. In general, spam means posting the same thing over and over, which is what you are doing by not answering any questions and just going 'spam is spam' over and over. Generally they mean posts, not even comments.
Point me to a posted rule that says voting too much is spam. Not some random comment, just one of the rules you are referring to.
Edit: It's been 5 hours, still waiting for an example.
Ngl, I wish they’d answered you. Either it has an effect, which makes it reasonable to do against misinformation, or it has no effect, which means it doesn’t matter and shouldn’t be classified as spam.
Like, people don’t get notifications for votes, right? I don’t, but maybe mods do? That’s the only way I could see it being spam in the classical definition.