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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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 112 points 1 month 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 79 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wow.

All the more reason to simply filter out ml

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] cloudless@piefed.social 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

With PieFed you can block all users of an instance.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Although they can still comment and vote on your stuff (you just won't see it).

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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[–] aloofPenguin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

do you still have to block the other two (hexbear and the other one, can't remember the name rn.)? I have .ml blocked, but I thought the other 2 got de-federated so blocking them wouldn't be necessary?

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[–] maam@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Nice instance choice!

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 31 points 1 month ago (2 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 12 points 1 month 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.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

But that power would go both ways. It would allow other instances to interfere with tankie brigading!

[–] MathGrunt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 month 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 30 points 1 month 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 9 points 1 month 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 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 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

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 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.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's nothing indicating that specifically. But if you're downvoting THAT much more, it's notable. There are people I see that I regularly downvote for solid reasons. Hypocrisy, whataboutism etc. But vote totals don't get that lopsided without some effort. All that means ultimately it's the ratio is lopsided.

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 15 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I agree with this. Far as I'm concerned, even if somebody only engages with posts they hate so all of their interactions are downvotes, why the fuck should they be banned? What does forcing faux positivity gain us? Yes I understand the value in stopping vote manipulation bots, but imo there should need to be more evidence of bot status or nefarious intent than just "downvotes a lot."

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago

That's a lot of downvotes!

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Oh no, don't use the platform exactly as designed and intended!

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 75 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 50 points 1 month ago

Thats what you get for fucking existing, asshole

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 46 points 1 month ago
[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 34 points 1 month ago (9 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.

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.)

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MathGrunt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

I'm beginning to see that. I've found a few other science communities in other instances that I think will work better in my feed.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 16 points 1 month ago

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

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] gkaklas@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This makes sense, since I've downvoted .ml posts and admins and haven't been modded, but I wonder if there's a better way to block bots?

You need an account to curate your feed and folks are gonna vote. There shouldn't be an obligation to participate in the comments.

Maybe some kind of random bot test sent to vote-only accounts?

[–] MathGrunt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month 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.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

!science@mander.xyz

Welcome to your new home.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] MathGrunt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

They have not replied. At this point I think they don't intend to reply.

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