this post was submitted on 20 Dec 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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- 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.
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- Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.
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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.
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YDI, it looks to me.
If you don't want an abortion, then don't get one - but why stand in the way of someone else who wants one? Or in this case, why not let those people in that community have their fun, without you continually raining on their parade?
Your "contributions" to mass downvote every post in that community (as you seem to freely admit doing?) were apparently unwelcomed, so the mod went to all that effort to detect you and act to defend the people that you abused. The Threadiverse needs MOAR content, not less, and they acted to make their environment welcoming to posters, at the expense of trolls who wish that they would simply cease to exist... yet don't bother to block the community themselves. If not troll, then why behave like troll? Well, now you know.
Also, you lied. You were corrected that "my frontpage" (emphasis my own) is NOT the same thing as the "All" feed. Yet that wording remains in your post for new people to continue to be swayed to your side of the issue, until they realize your misinformation. Well, now you know. (Edit: you also seemed to attempt a deliberate spread of misinformation by stating how you did not post or comment, while ignoring your mass contributions across many existing posts by other people.) (Such an act might get you banned from THIS community too, btw, especially if there are multiple infractions. Well, now you know.)
Rules exist for everybody, not only ever in your favor. Learn these and you will enjoy your experience much moar better-er-est. You truly do have the power to make yourself happier, rather than merely complain about not getting your way. Well, now you know 🥴.
Saying my frontpage has absolutely nothing to do with subscriptions… you can literally customize lemmy to show you All, Local, or Subscribed, or if you’re using an app you can customize it even more. It has nothing to do with being subscribed, that’s your ignorance making you believe something that wasn’t true.
Also this has to be the trolliest comment in this thread. Downvoting spam and bad content is something that you absolutely should do.
There's a key difference. A subscribed member of the community has the right to downvote poor quality content, whereas drive-by downvoting via All is something else altogether.
I have not seen the content that OP downvoted, so I have no idea how poor-quality it might be. But why would that even matter? The mod defended the community from someone who, by OP's own admission, is neither a subscribed member nor someone who has ever contributed beyond, and again this is OP's very own wording in this post, "mass downvoting".
"mass downvoting" is a form of vote manipulation.
Let's even take for granted that OP did it entirely in good faith, thinking they were helping the Threadiverse. Okay then, but in that case why bother being salty about being banned, from a community they claimed to have no interest in contributing to?
It seems to me a case of play games, win prizes. Yeah OP can mass downvote, and yeah the mod can ban them as a result. And now we've all had this conversation about it.
Maximum friendliness would have been for OP to simply block the community, or perhaps the poster to it, and then not have to worry about seeing that low-quality content anymore. Instead, they seem to want the right to continue to downvote it despite not ever wanting to post or comment. But I am siding with the mod in this case that I might well ban someone for the same reason, if the only "contributions" they ever made were drive-by downvotes like that.
So now OP is banned, so they don't have to worry anymore about it, problem solved. In the future though, I did recommend blocking rather than mass-downvoting all posts in a community that they are NOT a member of.
Anyone has the right to downvote. Subscribing just means you want to see it in your subscribed feed, not that you somehow get more “rights” to vote. What a ridiculous notion.
No it is not. Get off your high horse. If I downvote every post from a specific user because it clearly doesn’t belong in a community, that is not vote manipulation. Yes it would be better if the content would get removed, but waiting for that to occur and in the meantime allowing upvotes to continue when people might not even realize the post is in the wrong community just warps what communities are for.
This was readily apparent for years on Reddit (probably still is). People that don’t pay attention to what sub something is on, and then they just upvote it because they like it. It makes it to the top of the subreddit, more people see it, think that’s what the community is actually about, and then join it thus warping the actual intention of the community.
I’ve made it clear why this is a terrible system.
You're completely missing the point. Downvoting bad content is entirely desirable, but what constitutes bad content varies by community and instance. For example, I think most of the stuff in memes communities is pretty shit content. So I don't subscribe to any. I don't go to All and think "well this isn't to my tastes, better downvote it all!"
If someone is actually spamming, not just turboposting, then report it and block it. If they're just posting a lot, maybe point it to them, report it if it's against the rules, and block them so you don't see their posts. Posting a lot of stuff to relevant communities is very rarely harmful behavior.
And the mod also has the right to ban people that mass downvote so... yeah, everyone has their "rights" here, until they don't anymore.
OP said something that could be interpreted to that effect, but we don't know? And fwiw, I did not interpret the OP as saying that, everything that I have said here presumes that the downvoting is not restricted to merely one user but rather than that content from that user is merely one example of many low-quality posts from that entire community. This post is very much lacking in these crucial details, upon which a proper judgement is predicated.
That said, what would that change? Whether one user or many, either way OP admits to mass-downvoting many posts in a community that they are not a member of. OP has the capability but no (protected) "right" to be able to do so. Someone made a post, someone else downvoted it, then a mod banned the OP, now OP is complaining about the situation here (without providing all the evidence necessary to fully understand, e.g. were all the downvoted posts from a single user or from multiple?). And since the ban was a direct drive consequence of the mass-downvoting, it makes total sense to me why the ban occurred?
Though it seems next to impossible to continue to discuss this, without an example of such a post to examine. All we have here is OP's word that the posts sucked ass - but OP in this very post has already been quite free with use of language, implying at first that they saw the content in their subscribed feed (that being the most natural interpretation of the phrase"my frontpage"), so I am unwilling to take OP's word on other matters that it was the burden of OP to have provided.
Hence my determination of YDI: mass-downvoting leads to bans, it's kinda known, so if someone wanted to have not been banned, it's extremely easy to avoid that fate by simply not doing the action.
No, I downvoted the 5-12 posts that were placed in front of me because they were submitted within hours of each other and therefore were shown sequentially.
Disagree, it needs better content, not more. You can upvote every post if you want, no one else is obliged to.
Voting on content is not trolling, it is a base mechanic of the platform. Are you trolling? You sure seem to be behaving like it
Yes, I addressed that, and that's not lying either way.
Voting is not posting or commenting.
Seems like you think any opinion you don't like is a lie or a troll, trolling confirmed. Now you know 🥴
I don't like sports content. Therefore I blocked all sports communities.
I don't live in the UK, or in Australia, or Canada, etc. Therefore I blocked all communities for individual specific places within those countries - London, Ontario, etc.
The difference is - and remember you asked us, we didn't just start DMing you out of nowhere - that I do not begrudge the very existence of those communities. If someone ELSE wants to discuss sports, then I believe that they should be free to do so. If someone ELSE lives in London, then same.
Maybe I misunderstood and you were trying to state that the content that you downvoted was not merely irrelevant to you personally, but objectively bad? If so, it might have helped to have included links to some good examples, if you want help from this community to obtain an external judgement check on that determination. The vast majority of people here cannot see what content you recently downvoted - and even you might not fully recall, since 5-12 is quite a range that leaves a lot in doubt.
But even if all that content was objectively bad, why be salty about being banned from a community that you claim to have no interest in seeing?
What it LOOKS like - and I could be wrong but again, I am not DMing you out of nowhere, you ASKED for people's opinions in this post - is that you would prefer that you be allowed to continue to shit on other people's content, and in a manner that overrides the consent of the members of that community (proffered via the mod acting on their behalf) to be so shit upon. Think about it. If I am not entirely correct then what I am saying still has a point to it nonetheless. Or if you would rather, block me. You do have all the power here, decide how you want to wield it.
that won't get them banned from this comm. don't spread misinformation like that.
I don't believe that someone that continues to intentionally spread disinformation in this community would be allowed to remain.
There are several rules that imply that misinformation/disinformation is considered poor form.
well, you're not a mod, so it's not particularly relevant what you believe. people post misinformation here all the time, and they get downvoted for it because most people who visit this comm have pretty good bullshit detectors and will demand receipts. they don't get banned unless they rage and cause problems.
and on top of that, it isn't your place to threaten people anyway, now is it?
I find it highly interesting that I brought my own receipts at least:-).
As you have now stated and doubled down on the statement that OP has commented/posted in this Grimdank community, I would be very interested in seeing those receipts, as I haven't found evidence of this myself.
I never said that. I said "contributions", meaning mass downvoting. OP attempted vote manipulation - seemingly in good faith btw, thinking that this was good for the Threadiverse as a whole.
And now they are prevented from "contributing" further. But if they did not desire to contribute, then why this complaint post?
Edit: and the above needed no (additional) receipts, as it was directly stated by OP, even the very wording "Mass downvoting".
You're a compete loser. Every single reply you've made in this post is cringe and pathetic. Do everyone a favor and stop typing.