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.

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.

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Banned from UnpopularOpinions for an unpopular opinion. (midwest.social)

submitted 3 days ago by LilB0kChoy@midwest.social to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Note: I almost exclusively use the Voyager app to read and interact with communities.

Mod: JonsJava Sanction: multi community ban and post removals

A few days ago I created an alternate account to try out PieFed and see how I like it. My first and only post under this account was removed:

However, I checked the modlog in Voyager and didn't see anything there. I thought that maybe it was because I had a new account or something and I got automoderated so I switched to this account since it's older to post.

While I was recreating the post it occurred to me that using "morons" was wrong and probably violated the rules to I updated the post title as well, however it got removed also and this time I could see the modlog entry:

I got the idea to try and pull the modlog from the web version of Lemmy instance (I couldn't find where to check it in PieFed) for my PieFed account and that's where I also saw the same justification: "rage baiting troll".

I also saw that I got banned from the News community for the same reason based of a post in the UnpopularOpinion community.

I reached out to JonsJava directly from the PieFed account to explain what happened and request the bans be lifted hoping to work it out directly. Instead I got another ban on my PieFed account for "ban evasion" though I'm unclear how or where I evaded a ban.

I think it's unfair because it was a misunderstanding/system issue on my part and, as I explained to the mod, this is my legitimate opinion as an American that seems unpopular when I've brought it up in real life.

I didn't ask for the posts to be put back, I didn't even ask for my ban from UnpopularOpinions be lifted on my Lemmy account since this situation has led me to decide I don't want to participate there anyways.

I did ask for my ban to News be lifted since I participate in that community frequently. Instead I got a ban on my PieFed account for an evasion that never happened.

Honestly, at this point I really just want a sanity check over any resolution because this really feels like power tripping to me. I don't really care if the bans get lifted now; it's time to be done with the fediverse for me. I came here during the API issue in Reddit and it seems to me like it's slowly getting worse, probably the fate of all social media as the user base grows.

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[–] Dreamchiever@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

If the only thing that comes of this is I didn’t have to scroll past some sort of rage bait post claiming an entire country is full of one type of person, then good, what a worthless post to whine about being banned over. Find something worth saying and maybe people will want to interact with you.

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