this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2025
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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:

  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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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.

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I downvoted maybe 3 posts for being "unwise", but I guess that's not allowed. Looked up the mod and they banned a wave of people, all for "...". Good stuff.

This "banned for using the functions of the website" shit is really getting out of hand. Unless it's unequivocal support for every post, you're out. It's ridiculous out here.

Also! We still can't block communities we've been banned from? Wtf?

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (17 children)

https://lemvotes.org/user/ech@lemmy.ca

  • List of votes for ech@lemmy.ca:
  • Total post upvotes: 28
  • Total post downvotes: 68
  • Total comment upvotes: 532
  • Total comment downvotes: 333

voting history

And your old lemm.ee account

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn. I'm a really apathetic voter.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Interesting data

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Those are rookie ratios, gotta pump those numbers up.

I'm sure mine is much worse because I think this place is full x with idiots and bad opinions.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  • List of votes for bananaisaberry@lemmy.zip:

  • Total post upvotes: 8

  • Total post downvotes: 15

  • Total comment upvotes: 107

  • Total comment downvotes: 90

Not bad, not bad!

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

I wonder if my old .ee account is worse. That said, I feel like all I do is downvote. Maybe that's just a bias toward remembering bad interactions than good.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What a creepy thing to post.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Only if it demonstrates a creep.

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

My app lets me block any community.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

for using the functions of the website

This talking point is a huge red flag of a shit stirrer. Please provide an example of a mod action taken against anything other than using functions of the website.

[–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 3 points 1 month ago

Yea this gave me the “I’ll never do anything but downvote because it’s my right” feeling.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I downvote a lot and no one has fucked with me for it yet

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 month ago

I know. I've been the target of your serial downvoting before. But at the time I didn't know how to ban for it. lol

[–] psud@aussie.zone -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Down voting small communities can drown out constructive conversation, and if you down voted the top 3 posts in a community you probably should have blocked it instead.

If the community likes stuff you dislike, it's probably not the right place for you

Lemmy doesn't yet support hiding communities from the "all" list from non subscribers (you'd have to use search to find such communities) so you'll see stuff from communities that are intended for a specific audience, use the block function

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Probably not a good place for those communities yet then.

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