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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.
Keep the comments in YPTB posts about the moderation action itself, not about the general topic in which the moderation took place.

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.

YPTB 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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submitted 5 months ago by ozymandias@sh.itjust.works to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Lemmy has a real problem with alts and sock puppeting

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[–] TheObviousSolution@thebrainbin.org 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't help that admins have at times decided to encourage alt'ing to bypass bans "because if they are good faith participants, they won't get banned again". The problem is the whole federated system means accommodating different standards.

As a proponent of any decent implementation of the idea, I'd just like to point out that if we could select our own moderators for communities, a lot of these alts and sock puppets would probably have been handled by the people I would have aggregated to the list instead of just waiting for the time zone or availability to roll over to the official ones. A lot of these are blatantly obvious.

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 9 points 5 months ago

I don't think any amount of democratic community moderation voting (this case here is more to do with an absent instance owner) would prevent the phenomenon of idle, disinterested or otherwise too-busy moderators letting their communities be overrun.

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[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Admin of what instance said that? I've only ever seen the opposite opinion.

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[–] TheObviousSolution@thebrainbin.org -5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

They know who they are, and it depends on what's involved. Even if the ban was clearly in bad faith, the tune changes when it's someone co-mingling in their circles, and I'll leave it at that since it would involve old Matrix conversations. If you haven't, that's good, although it's what ban happy behavior encourages. The only people whom bans like those works against are good faith participants.

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[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works [S] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I noticed you have an 11 day old account... I take it you gathered enough bans to warrant a new account?
Gmail lets you put a . or a + in your email address so you can still receive it.
So if your email is bob@gmail.com, you can register a new account as bob+alt1@gmail.com and then bob+alt2@gmail.com... Since + is a valid email address character most places accept it and you can make infinite accounts with one email...
Work with some fr33 tr14ls but don't tell everyone

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[–] TheObviousSolution@thebrainbin.org 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You really aren't making a good case for yourself if you are trying to promote ban evasion. Were your critics right, and is your gig up now?

And no, this is just an alt, after experiencing some rather concerning double standards of enforcement in another instance as well as an harsh degree of escalation from said enforcement, this account represents a different approach on a platform that handles some things better than Lemmy's and avoids any presence on the aforementioned instance.

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[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works [S] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I'm actually trying to promote more proactive anti-ban evasion

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[–] TheObviousSolution@thebrainbin.org 0 points 5 months ago

I don't think Lemmy's fediverse model needs any more promotion than what it naturally has to allow for.

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[–] TractorDuffy@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

... So ban evasion

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[–] TheObviousSolution@thebrainbin.org 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

What are you a proponent of, the Minority Report version of banning? Ironically enough, even without a ban this has meant I haven't even participated in their instance for anything, so not even that.

Are we play acting that not even mods and admins have alts in other instances now?

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[–] TractorDuffy@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Just be honest lol

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[+] FirstPrimeJonah@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

[removed by mod]

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[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 months ago

Lemmy is terrible software for stopping bad actors. I feel like the devs designed it.

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

To be fair, it's easy to see the problem on Lemmy. Every place has it but Reddit and the like make it difficult to notice.

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[–] KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago

Yeah, tho pretending any given account on reddit is a real person acting in good faith is ah… wishful thinking

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