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.
Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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.
YPTB 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.
Relevant comms
Thats what you get for fucking existing, asshole
Did they reply?
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.

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.
Wow.
All the more reason to simply filter out ml
i just block the tankie triad, instances, unfortunately you have to block individual users seperately.
With PieFed you can block all users of an instance.
Nice, instance choice!
Most do. After a few months of being a new user, people tend to figure it out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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

That's a lot of downvotes!
Lemvotes isn't definitive. But damn that's lopsided for sure.
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.
NoooOoOo you can only have your say with updoots!!!1
Notorious amongst whom? I don't spam votes, I evaluate each item on its merits as I see them.
Total post upvotes: 19
Looks like lemmy has absolutely nothing of merit for you, why are you even here?
People aren't under the obligation to upvote posts they like. Personally I don't upvote or downvote a lot of posts either.
Not upvoting is 1 thing. Having a 500:1 downvote:upvote ratio is quite another.
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.
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
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.)
My feed is perfectly well curated.
Total post upvotes: 19
Total post downvotes: 4656
(x) Doubt
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)
https://mander.xyz/c/science is way better anyway
Mander.xyz is a great instance for science, I consider it the science instance.
Ooh! Nice. I just checked it out and subscribed.
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.
They keep the comment sections clear of State Department talking points
They keep the comment section clear of most talking points that are not approved by either the PLA or the GRU
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.)
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.
ive been seen a suble takeover of the political memes sub by the tankies, yea thier own communities arnt getting enough engagement .
