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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One downvote equals one ban (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This guy is clearly snooping the downvoters as an instance admin and retaliating against them. Wouldn't even have noticed if I didn't stumble onto the modlog in Voyager by accident.

I might be of course wrong in my assumption. But I don't remember ever interacting with anyone from that instance, I'm not subscribed to those communities and the dates correlate.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dubyakay isn't in your example conversation. They seem unrelated

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That's me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

https://dubvee.org/modlog?other_person_id=908319

Extremism - Implicit variety. Pattern of downvoting content that denounces targeted violence / vigilante justice, upvoting content in support of.

https://dubvee.org/site/dubvee.org

As an instance, we're pretty heavily moderated in order to maintain a welcoming atmosphere that fosters civil discussion. We don't "tone police" everything, but we do expect users, local and remote, to behave themselves and act in a rational, civilized manner. Those who cannot, local or federated, are quickly shown the door.

Absolutely No Extremism

Implicit Extremism:

Patterns of upvoting or boosting posts/comments that explicitly praise, endorse, or advocate for violence (or any of the 'explicit' items above)

Patterns of downvoting posts/comments that denounce violence or those that advocate for lawful/peaceful solutions.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

I've downvoted them because their comment chain has implied that glorifying the CEO killer will cause the US to head where Mexico is. Except the cause of cartel violence IS the US foreign policy and domestic drug laws already. Remove the racism against Latinos and decriminalize drugs and you don't have an incentive for the cartels to dominate illegal trade with violence towards elected officials.

They've made a false equivalence.

Thanks for the log, Voyager doesn't highlight the details.

[–] Cheradenine 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well they are saying there is no proof in your example. Which you yourself say.

The same thing happened to me though, and I too found it by accidentally tapping the Modlog button. I'm banned from 7 different communities on that instance. Except for a 3 day ban in one of the .ml communities I have never been banned anywhere. I am only guessing at why I was banned since the modlog seems to reference something that isn't in the modlog as the reason. I messaged them twice and never got a reply.

ptb

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I think it's a big problem that Lemmy doesn't notify when moderation actions are taken against you, and the modlog doesn't even have an RSS feed so it's not like you can subscribe to it either to get the notifications that way from your feed reader. You just kind of have to stumble across it, which is how I found out I was banned from the news community for "sock puppet account" for 3 days because the mod thought my accounts were sockpuppets, was an honest mistake sure, but still, I should've found out when it happened, not days after the fact.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You were downvoting everything they posted, sounds like you wouldn't have enjoyed participating on dubvee anyway

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Banning for downvotes is just unhinged. "You wouldn't enjoy it there" - I got a perma ban from that instance for a total of about 5 downvotes over the course of weeks. I don't know how "bad" OP was being, but the admin there is extra trigger happy for the slightest possible "issue" and shouldn't be defended for it.

*Bruh. I just decided to look into it more and this wasn't even on the banned instance. The admin banned OP for "misbehaving" on an entirely different instance. What a fucking tool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

PTB, but also confined to their personal instance, so nothing of value was lost. Let them power trip in their little sandbox, it doesn't affect the rest of the world.