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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.


Posting Guidelines

All posts should follow this basic structure:

  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

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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.

YPTB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.


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Checked my notifications to see this, I'm not even active in those communities.

The reason says ' Piefed Troll ' I'm not sure what that could be?

Can someone help me figure out why I was banned? I wasn't very active in the last week I can't imagine why I'd be banned, especially from these communities.

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[–] UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

dbzer0 is a pro-AI instance (not corporate AI like ChatGPT or Grok), maybe that's why?

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not against AI, I use it a lot and it is useful, you just need to know what to use it for and to not trust it with anything serious.

But it's not all positive AI is bad in many ways for me the privacy risks are huge and something people should worry about.

Wild to ban me for saying something bad about AI

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This was a mod-ban btw, so you seem to have annoyed the mod who's moderating all those comms.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would like to at least know what I did to annoy them this much.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Look's who's the common mod, and ping them?

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's @draconic_neo@lemmy.dbzer0.com .

Care to help understand why I was banned from all those communities?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Generally they don't ban for anti-ai sentiment, unless you're going to the AI comms and being a dick or downvoting everything in them instead of just blocking them.

My account is on the instance and I'm semi active in a few specifically anti-ai comms, and I've never had any problems.

[–] monkeyjoe@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Yep, they only ban users who cause issues within the community. Most of the ban logs say that they went into a community they don't like, started things, got banned. Then they get mad that no one wanted to clean up a mess.