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.

Rules

Post only about bans or other sanctions from mod(s).
Provide the cause of the sanction (e.g. the text of the comment).
Provide the reason given by the mods for the sanction.
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.

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.

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.
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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So I was just banned from [email protected] for no apparent reason? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I try to make heads or tails of this situation. I got randomly banned from a community where I posted a youtube video showing something from a Convention. Then I wanted to post a question today but realised that I couldn't since I was banned. That community is sadly the biggest of all Star Citizen communities (the next one would be from lemmy.world)

I took a look at the Mod log and see the following line in it:

So no clean up of violating comments or posts, just a strict out ban.

The community has a pretty standard ruleset:

further, the moderator @[email protected] hasn't posted anything since a year, so what gives here, or was it some other mod that was able to declare the ban?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Voyager DOES allow you to user-block entire instances, it’s in the settings menu under “filters and blocks”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hrm, I see. But that block seems to just set Lemmy's default "user-level instance blocking", which does not block users from the instance, only communities. i.e., it's the same as the Lemmy web UI, and in it I see that I've already blocked Lemmy.ml, for all the good that it does - which I mean to say is not much.

So I meant here that the app does not provide additional functionality beyond the web UI, to do something that the web UI can or will not.

And this is why I don't want to write a post about this topic - it's terribly confusing, with so many fine-grain details that can trip someone up. This would be better written by a team of people who each know more about the various aspects, i.e. the different apps and methods of accessing the Fediverse. But at least here I offered what little I do know personally.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ooh i didn’t even realize there was a difference. you’re right, it is terribly confusing hahaha

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It's done that way on purpose, blocking the users from an instance can disrupt the flow of communities. It's purpose isn't to filter out users, it's to filter out all communities on that instance. It's not an alternative or replacement to defederation it's an alternative to blocking every community from a specific instance, which is long and tedious.