That's quite extreme. PTB.
Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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.
Relevant comms
Y'know, concentrating power in the hands of a single person / group defeats the purpose of decentralisation.
I can understand if the damage is limited to communities within a single instance, but when a ban is so far-reaching - across so many instances - it makes me wonder what's the point of choosing Lemmy over, say, Reddit.
It's still the same problem again, just with different people in charge - like Bluesky vs Twitter.
Yeah, the problem of modreach is definitely not a solved problem. The other problem, of all discourse being directly controllable from on high by a profit-driven company, however, is solved by lemmy. I believe that was the original issue lemmy was meant to handle. And that problem does seem to be solved. We'll just have to handle the problem of public official reach the way we normally would.
the... scales... of justice are often harsh
Yikes, a mass ban over multiple communities for that? PTB
Ada used to do this too before people started speaking up
Mods and admins will always find a way to trip over the smallest amount of power.
The ban across multiple communities is not intentional. I just meant to ban them from !vegan@lemmy.dbzer0.com. I was not used to Tesseract's ui. But even that was definitely jumping the gun upon rereading the joke.
Why would you ban them from !vegan though, considering the comment was made in another community entirely? Even if we assume the comment was serious, you're basically saying the rules of the !vegan comm extend across the fediverse.
The mod in common across all these servers is @Sunshine@lemmy.ca and her other alternate accounts on various servers.
Sunshine, if you see this, this is a pretty overkill response from you over what is a joke about the lengths people go to to lie to themselves. If you're thinking it was a bad joke still deserving a ban, at least diminish the sentence length down from a month to a few days instead. I will edit the post to communicate the lessened ban length.
It's OK Sunshine, JayDee's made out of styrofoam.
I'm sorry, but you're banned from every community I moderate now.
After the 'update' I'm still confused how that is even worth a 6 day ban from the vegan community.
They also walked that back a bit after.
Right but 6 days for that makes vegans look absolutely nuts.
Inb4 I'm banned for being anti vegan I'm literally 20 years vegan
Sunshine is absolutely nuts.
PTB, if you were banned from vegan Comms I wouldn't really care, but a joke getting you banned from multiple non related Comms over several instances? Now that is crazy
I thought i had a perm ban from them when i called them hypocrites for not caring for the feelings of vegetables. Saddly it was not
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog/1485815?page=1&actionType=All
IMHO this mod is out of control
That is golden 😂
Wow, they're just blatantly banning people who said something they disagree with now.
Oh yeah ... that mod. Not the first time they did that, but this might be the pettiest one, yet.
PTB for sure.
Seems to be https://sh.itjust.works/u/Sunshine@lemmy.ca that's trigger happy.
I did see that. She is a pretty active mod it seems.
Well at least you got a great story to tell when people says the /s is unnecessary. :)
Seems weird that you got banned for a comment but the comment itself wasn't removed.
Anyway I think bans very often mean, "Your comment made me angry, so as a mod or admin I found a stick I can hit you with." And when it comes down to it, people who run websites don't have to publish anything they (or their proxies) don't like.
The ban was for a different community. Sunshine saw their comment and went "that person sucks I'll ban them from my sub[s]"
I don't think she was a mod where the comment was made
Also she claims she accidentally hit "ban them from everywhere I moderate" instead of "also remove their posts and comments" so maybe the comment would have survived anyway
PTB - The humor could use a bit of work, that joke was reeling in so slowly, just flopping around like a....
Fuck, i liked Sunshine too...
PTB
Glad they at least reversed it after getting caught