this post was submitted on 12 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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I want to say CLM... If a community really doesn't want downvotes, why not setup the community on an instance that doesn't do downvoting?
If downvoting is "manipulation" just because you don't like it... why allow downvotes at all? Lemmy supports disabling downvotes. It's a checkbox for the admin. It's easy.
Because people don't like instances where they can't vote but the admin wants their space to be popular while maintaining ideological control.
Good point, but if the admin doesn't disable downvotes like you are saying, then the mod can't do anything about that. It would be cool if mods had the ability to disable downvotes.
Then talk with your other mods... close that community and open one somewhere that does disable them. I just don't buy the excuse in the 3 pixel image from the mod basically blanket saying that downvotes are just for manipulation... Yeah I'd be a loser to go somewhere and only downvote every single thing... but I don't see how 100% of a single user downvoting literally every item is manipulation at all, everything would go down pretty equally.
I go out of my way to downvote things that I think don't contribute. I don't necessarily upvote everything that does contribute, but things that I believe contribute extraordinarily. So if you were to look at my vote history this mod might think that I'm "mass vote manipulating". That's kind of crazy to put yourself under such workload to look at all votes like that. If downvote manipulation is the worry, just disabled the downvote or move somewhere that has already disabled the downvotes.
I'm only going by the information that the OP posted. OP did say '...so I got out of there. The next day I see more of his junk and go to downvote but can’t because I’m banned.' and then he goes on to admit 'Sure it was a dick move to poke the bear about his lifestyle of only posting things that get downvoted'
So it seems like he posted to just get a reaction. And it looks like he dm'd the mod first, making fun of him and mod responded. But neither he or the OP have responded to any of the comments in the thread, so we have no idea of what's really going on.
Most of my communities are here on dbzer0 and sh.itjustworks, so I have no desire to move. But I did hear that a new update was coming up to allow more tools for mods. Maybe what you are suggesting is in there?