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.
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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Self report: AITPTB for banning someone for report abuse? (ponder.cat)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, I saw a report from one of my users. They reported:

https://ponder.cat/post/1594852/1813842

For the reason:

Unreasonable fighting with everyone in every simple post

I think that's ridiculous, so I talked with them about it. Posting private communications is frowned upon I guess, but long story short, they weren't receptive. I've decided to ban the account.

IMO the general culture on Lemmy is that users are entitled to their free account and everyone needs to be careful and circumspect about limiting that entitlement in any way, but I don't see it that way. I don't think it's a requirement for me to provide hosting space for anyone who wants to use my stuff as a jumping-off point for abuse of Lemmy's systems, and isn't apologetic or receptive when I talk with them about not doing that. The fact that it's in service of harassing FlyingSquid in particular is just icing on the cake, since my perception is that people like to harass him apparently for no legitimate reason at all (with this as an example).

AITA?

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

If you have, then DM admins directly about that. They probably mod those communities as well, so reports never reach the admins

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

So Blaze, I'm a little disappointed in you. We have never agreed on anything, but you have always been a straight shooter.

I actually sent you a DM a day to two before this thread was even started, mentioning that I was noticing fake accounts with my name.

That was BEFORE this thread started. Not that I'm asking you to speak up for me or anything, but it's curious how you just sorta let this "ban evasion" conversation going on, while knowing that you had been alerted to the fake UniMonks by me.

And you seem fine to let the conversation carry about people's disbelief in fake accounts under my name. I have seen Universal Monk, Multiversal Monk, and RealUniversal Monk names.

I told you before this conversation ever started that there were fake accounts with my name. Can I ask why you stayed silent on that?

We're not friends. I get it. But you are usually impartial in your conversations.

And I just found another fake UniversalMonk posting to lemm.ee, which I have been banned from. And I just reported to the mod of c/conservative and the admin @[email protected] to report. :)

Hmmm, and the user created that name just recently. Around the time this thread was started. Wow, what a strange coincidence. A heated debate of my ban evading.

So I post proof that I don’t post in communities that I have been banned from. Then magically there are accounts with my name suddenly posting in communities I have been banned from. Even tho that wasn’t happening before this thread.

I messaged the mod, Ella and alerted her to the user and the post:

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

They probably mod those communities as well, so reports never reach the admins

But if I am posting to my own community that I have NOT been blocked from, and on an instance I have NOT been blocked from, how would that be ban evasion?