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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.

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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.

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Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.
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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.

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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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Mod goes insane after I downvoted a few posts, goes off on me in DMs (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 months ago by TimeTracelParadox@lemmy.zip to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I downvoted maybe half a dozen posts. They were all right-wing bullshit and I realized that's all the user has ever posted 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.

Sure it was a dick move to poke the bear about his lifestyle of only posting things that get downvoted, but he. Went. OFF!

Accusing me of alts, thinking I'm obsessed with him, message after message... I probably have more in my inbox right now but stitching this image together took long enough.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 17 points 2 months ago (12 children)

they were banned from .world

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Well yeah, but looking through their history at zero they… had a change of heart? Math and piracy, not politics and qanon.

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Welp, I just got home from work, and I had a rough day, so I can't stop myself from replying. I'll do just this one and log off the fediverse for the night.

If you look at the profile of the user you're replying to, at the top you'll see they made themselves a banner showing off how other people despise them. This could be a good thing if the people they were bragging about were like... nazis. But this individual has a reputation and they really, really earned it.

If you search 'Universal Monk' on the fediverse, you'll get this at the top, "I'm Calling For the Fediverse to Ban Universal Monk." It does a deep dive of their other accounts. A lot of what they're doing in this thread is claiming that they're super open and honest about who they are (and they're on an account they've curated to not be such a douche canoe) which means you have to look at the other accounts to see what the deal is.

Here's a link to a call to action on slrpnk calling to ban UM. The post isn't interesting- the comments are. And after seeing how people make a game out of figuring out the rules of a place specifically so they can be as obnoxious as possible without copping a ban, seeing this behavior in the wild and recognizing it for what it is, sets my teeth on edge. (This is where I would move to the section to talk about evidence of puppetry and such, but I'm choosing not to hyperfocus on this.)

ETA: Okay I couldn't help myself. I added a bit in a paragraph above, but here is a fantastic bit. This is a comment from auk. It's under the second link. I'm copy and pasting the relevant bit here. (Auk is speaking to UM.)

You did know you were being obnoxious previously, and refused to stop doing it until it escalated to an account ban, and then made some new accounts and started looking for new places to do it.

I think admins and mods those new places can make the decision about whether that is ban evasion, or whether they want to let you do this all again until you inevitably get banned again sometime later. People have talked with you about why what you’re doing is a problem. Why they would pick that second option is something of a mystery to me, but I’ll leave it up to them. I’m just relaying the information.

It would be a different story if you were just misunderstanding something, and completely open to a conversation about why you keep getting banned and what you can do differently, but you’re clearly more interested in figuring out the details of the rules so you can find ways around them and keep doing your same thing.

[+] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com -6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

which means you have to look at the other accounts to see what the deal is.

What other accounts? My other main lemmy account was https://sh.itjust.works/u/UniversalMonk account. Posts are public there too.

And I recently started https://feddit.online/u/UniversalMonk And posts are public there too. I also have a xander science one. and I was on vegantheory before it closed down.

All are socialist-oriented and/or third party oriented. My posts and profile for .world is still up to.

Are you forgetting that everyone on .world was mad because I advocated third-party voting BEFORE the election. Back when it was traitorous to say so on Lemmy? It's cool now, but def wasn't cool to advocate third-party then.

So what alts are you referring to?! I've always advocated third-party voting and always said the duopoly sucks. I mention it in all of my profiles too.

The reason for the alts I mentioned is because you never know when an instance will shut down. Lemm.ee the 2nd or 3rd biggest instance is shutting down. Pefect example. And I used to be on lemm.ee too. profile is public there too.

Here’s a link to a call to action on slrpnk calling to ban UM.

Yep, and they gave in to the mob-rule and banned me. But look at every single post i made on slrpnk. Socialist or solar oriented. The mod actually reached out before he banned me, gave me the reasons (the mob-ruling people) and offered me time to switch my stuff over. So I have no ill-will for slrpnk whatsoever. They were totally cool about it.

I have a special place in my heart for disliking people who account-hop

Again, see the lemm.ee instance shutting down. The vast majority of my posts are from here and st.justworks. Both histories are public.

All you are saying is that people don't like me. Ok. We know that. I KNOW that people don't like me because I didn't vote for Biden/Harris/Trump. I have always said they are the same. And I always will. Proud of the fact that I advocated for third party then, before it was well-accepted.

I don't wanna turn this into a political thing, but let's face it. That's why you and others are mad at me: I didn't vote for Biden/Harris/Trump and was open about it.

Now having said all that. I have nothing to do with OP. OP isn't banned from any of my communities. You all turned this in to a UM fest, I am merely defending myself.

ALL my posts from every instance I have been on are public. People are fine not to like me because I don't worship the teet of the capitalist duopoly. Cool!

But don't go around making up shit that's not true like that I'm the guy who banned OP. I have never even heard of OP until this post today. Enough people hate me for real reason, people don't have to make up stuff. (not meaning YOU specifically, I mean the others talking about alts that aren't me.)

Also thanks for your posts about threads to ban me. I AM proud of those, because they show in black and white, for all to see, the mob-rule bullying that happens to people who aren't exactly doing what you want. That's why they are also in my profile graphic. I'm not trolling, I'm wearing the mob-rule madness as a badge because I'm glad I stood up to you all then, and standing up to you all now.

But I got nothing to do with OP's situation. I think this is all going off topic, and people should just concentrate on OP's complaint.

Also the AUK you are talking about uses a bot to ban from his community regardless of if you've never voted there, or posted there. The mod logs are full of his bot bans/unbans.