this post was submitted on 09 Mar 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.


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Checked my notifications to see this, I'm not even active in those communities.

The reason says ' Piefed Troll ' I'm not sure what that could be?

Can someone help me figure out why I was banned? I wasn't very active in the last week I can't imagine why I'd be banned, especially from these communities.

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[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 54 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Seems that a few people are getting banned for "random" reasons.

(Looking at ban reasons and their posts from the same time I suspect it's all because they criticised AI lmao)

https://lemmy.zip/modlog/4125

https://lemmy.zip/modlog/747138

etc

Seems you got banned for your post "I searched CachyOS vs Fedora on YouTube and all I found was AI Slop 🙄"

PTB 100%

[–] tae_glas@slrpnk.net 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

can confirm, i & a few other users got comments removed & banned from some communities for talking about how to spot genAI images etc

most of the people in question were slrpnk.net users, so it makes sense why we'd be against something that's so electricity- and water-hungry while providing very little of use (meanwhile i'm fine with locally-hosted analytical AI that's doing stuff like analysing scans for cancer, for example)

but weirdly, the bans all got labelled as stuff like "anti-AI neoliberal", even though neoliberals are totally fine with corporate-owned genAI being added needlessly to every service 🤷

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is interesting to me that the modlog doesn't show who did action. Is that normal? I would have expected to see who the moderator was that performed the mod action, but honestly haven't been involved with moderating a website in basically 15 years, so I don't know what the accepted norms are these days...

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

I think there are mobile apps that show it (pretty sure a thread here from a few days ago had a screenshot showing as much).