this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2026
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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.

Rules


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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I sent the MOD this message:

Hi XXXXXXXX, I just noticed that you banned me 2 hours ago from c/Science for Spam. I am confused. I mostly lurk and haven’t commented or posted anything in several months. I definitely don’t post ads or spam. Can you please let me know what happened?

The only reason that I noticed that I am banned is that I watched that (long-ish) video about Brainrot on the feed and the top comment is asking for a tldw.

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[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 hours ago

Have you thought not lurking ? /J Aside joking, ml is not a good instance, don't bother with them match. I don't for once.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 31 points 9 hours ago

Thats what you get for fucking existing, asshole

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 3 points 6 hours ago

Did they reply?

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 43 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

It’s .ml, so it’s to be expected. They have the most fragile power hungry mods around, and zero tolerance for diversity of thought.

Your crime was probably downvoting a post, they don’t like people doing that.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 26 points 11 hours ago
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 84 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

It was probably an admin ban. They ban if non-.ml users downvote anything on their instance. And if you ask about it they'll block you.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 59 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Wow.

All the more reason to simply filter out ml

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

i just block the tankie triad, instances, unfortunately you have to block individual users seperately.

[–] cloudless@piefed.social 3 points 5 hours ago

With PieFed you can block all users of an instance.

[–] maam@feddit.uk 2 points 9 hours ago

Nice, instance choice!

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Most do. After a few months of being a new user, people tend to figure it out.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 25 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Seems like the devs of lemmy who also happen to run .ml could add some code to lemmy that lets instances disallow down votes from outside the instance if they want to. Or set it to not display from within the .ml instance so their precious fee fees aren't hurt.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@piefed.zip 9 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, they are not powerless to prevent downvote brigades, and serial downvoters. There are a number of ways they can throttle downvote frequency, monitor sources of varying accounts, etc.

[–] MathGrunt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Thank you for that clarification. I'm surprised, but then I suppose there really isn't much else they can do about vote bots and brigades. A warning would have been nice, but given that Lemmy is starting to show evidence of the kind of bots that are killing reddit (and all social media), I can understand their position.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 23 points 13 hours ago

No, there's plenty they can do. They're the developers of Lemmy itself, they could easily implement something that limited the interaction of external users. Some instances already have downvotes disabled entirely. But I guess they get off on this.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago

There is a serious amount of serial downvoters and upvoters on lemmy to cause drama or direct the flow of conversation. They might let you back in once they realize you're not a bot or a troll.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

Don't act like they just ban anyone who downvotes anything. You've been banned three times for vote spam, and you're literally notorious for downvoting


Edit:

Sources:

https://lemmy.zip/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=22809396
1000013127

https://lemvotes.org/user/frongt@lemmy.zip
1000013128

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 10 points 12 hours ago

That's a lot of downvotes!

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Lemvotes isn't definitive. But damn that's lopsided for sure.

[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 20 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Even so, what does it matter? Where is the indication that a user with a high downvote ratio is doing anything harmful, let alone worthy of a permaban?

Edit: Can someone please ban the people downvoting me? I can't deal with this.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 points 12 hours ago

NoooOoOo you can only have your say with updoots!!!1

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip -2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Notorious amongst whom? I don't spam votes, I evaluate each item on its merits as I see them.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Total post upvotes: 19

Looks like lemmy has absolutely nothing of merit for you, why are you even here?

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

People aren't under the obligation to upvote posts they like. Personally I don't upvote or downvote a lot of posts either.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Not upvoting is 1 thing. Having a 500:1 downvote:upvote ratio is quite another.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Eh, I'm not sure it's indicative of votespamming though. That can just be a product of how they use Lemmy.

I didn't accuse him of votespamming, only of being a crappy member of the community.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Notorious amongst whom?

There's a post about you on the mildly infuriating comm rn

I don't spam votes, I evaluate each item on its merits as I see them.

Your apparent 3rd strike for vote spamming suggests otherwise

Please consider curating your feed rather than downvoting content you don't like

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

My feed is perfectly well curated. But I also downvote (and report) a lot of spam, like actual chatgpt-generated ad spam.

(I also downvote "deleted by creator" comments, but that's just to push them down in the comment trees, because they're just noise. They changed the behavior a while back to leave that instead of actually deleting it when it had no replies, and I wish they'd revert that change.)

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 19 points 11 hours ago

My feed is perfectly well curated.

Total post upvotes: 19
Total post downvotes: 4656

(x) Doubt

[–] gkaklas@lemmy.zip 16 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

matrix thread

It has happened to me as well! It's the "vote-only" part that triggers it, to filter out bots

Dessalines:

[...] We don't usually allow vote-only accounts on lemmy.ml, those are mostly bots targeting specific users or communities. That's our rule 4, spamming.

Since it was an .ml account I just stopped using it; I don't know what you could do about voting on .ml communities though (aside from using your account to post more)

[–] protist@mander.xyz 16 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 points 8 hours ago

Mander.xyz is a great instance for science, I consider it the science instance.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago

Ooh! Nice. I just checked it out and subscribed.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's lemmy.ml, many wear that ban like a medal because if you are somewhat sane you have a good chance of triggering the mods or admins, which are not sane. I've filtered out lemmy.ml long ago, so even if they lift your ban, i'd recommend you do the same instead of engaging there in any form.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They keep the comment sections clear of State Department talking points

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 3 points 4 hours ago

They keep the comment section clear of most talking points that are not approved by either the PLA or the GRU

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 26 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Uh. And it's a permanent ban. Not just a temporary timeout for a minor offense... I'd take it as an invitation to switch to different Science/Ask/Open-Source communities on different instances. Might be an improvement anyway. (I mean I myself diversified my subscriptions and left most lemmy.ml ones a long time ago.)

[–] MathGrunt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 15 hours ago

I don't have a screenshot of comment or post that caused the ban, because I haven't commented or posted anything whatsoever in more than six months.

Mod has been very active over the last 24 hours but hasn't responded to me.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 8 hours ago

ive been seen a suble takeover of the political memes sub by the tankies, yea thier own communities arnt getting enough engagement .