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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.

YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.

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Banned for Voting Incorrectly? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by AceTKen@lemmy.ca to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All (potentially accidentally while scrolling).

Important notes:

  1. I don't use scripts.
  2. I don't mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don't like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on.
  3. Some of the communities I was banned from don't have any posts in them so I wouldn't have been able to downvote anything.
  4. Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It's quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette.
  5. One of my bans reads "Appeal Granted, not a brigading member" but I'm still banned.
  6. I don't troll.

WTF is going on here?

EDIT - Updated Info from the conversation below: In the initial image, you can see two "ban waves."

The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community. It was @Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477

I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.

The other bans from two months ago are from four total downvotes over a 10-month timeframe in one Community.

I have also stated in this thread that I don't have issues with AI-gen images, but there are shoddy ones and well-done ones.

EDIT 2: Now unbanned from the ten Communities listed as "3 months ago" in my initial image, but have been banned from three more because of this thread with the reason given being "self-proclaimed anti-AI brigader" which are two things I didn't claim to be. God dammit Lemmy...

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[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That mods/admins can even see who is downvoting is, by far, my least favorite thing about Lemmy.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

It is an invariable aspect of lemmy though. It is open source. Anyone can make a server. The servers need to have a database for the up- downvotes and they need the info specific to the user, so it can't just be said by another instance "heres 1000 downvotes, deal with it".

E.g. on reddit and any other corporate social media the admins can also see exactly who up- and downvoted stuff.

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[–] kaidezee@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They should really just remove up/down -votes.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And how would content be organised and curated?

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

lets just do forums where everything is sorted by recency of comments and instead of bitching about voting people bitch about 25 year old threads getting necroed

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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I also got banned from some communities for "systematic downvoting". I'd estimate I've downvoted maybe 5 or so posts by a moderator promoting a harmful diet, which was apparently enough for being "systematic". The mod also banned me from other random communities I had never interacted with in the first place. But oh well, nothing of value was lost for me. Just kinda sucks that mods can use this to make it seem like their statements are less controversial than they are.

[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy (and Reddit) are a collection of little dictatorships. But dictatorship is bad, I think, maybe.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

The true power of the fediverse is that little dictatorships should, in principle, balance out each other

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you want to have a debate about my diet, I'm open to that - but just downvoting every post you see because you don't like it... that doesn't work for me - that isn't the kind of community I want to grow.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I don't want to debate your diet, just want to add my voice of disagreement to it (i.e. downvote). There was nothing systematic about any of my votes. I came upon your posts without seeking them out, read them and thought they shouldn't be promoted, so I downvoted them to reduce their algorithmic visibility and voice my general opposition. I upvoted people who argued against your points, as I agreed with them and wanted to promote their viewpoints. In my opinion, that's quite a normal way to use this platform. Otherwise, do you also ban people who only upvote you without stating why they agree with your points?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That is a fair way to use the platform, since private communities are not yet a thing we have this weird disconnect between small communities and people who don't like small communities.

My view is I'm trying to create a safe space for people to talk about a thing, but random people keep looking around at all activity and exporting their negativity since they don't like the small community. So this weird "please block things you don't like" state is the best option we have until subscriber only communities become a real feature.

Let's say you don't speak German, when you see the german posts in the ALL feed do you downvote them each and every time because they are in a language you don't understand?

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Let's say you don't speak German, when you see the german posts in the ALL feed do you downvote them each and every time because they are in a language you don't understand?

That's not a very good comparison, they were specifically stating they down voted something they thought was harmful and shouldn't be promoted.

For your example it would be closer to seeing a post written in German but it's a post saying positive things about Nazis or something.

Then yeah, I would hope people would down vote it.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

If I get banned for a downvote I dont want to have anything to do with that community anyway.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

My first interaction with davel@lemmy.ml was him threatening to ban me over downvoting his comments.

One of the first things which made me look into what this power tripping bastard is and yeah, a Russian pretending to be an American who's since been avoiding any communities they're not a mod on.

Dude says things like "reality has a well known Russian propaganda bias" while pretending to be American while supporting Putin.

Lemmy is infested with Russians

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honestly. Doing this when someone makes dozens of downvotes is ridiculous and stupid. Doing this with a single downvote is… I can't even begin to fathom how unimaginably stupid and ridiculous that is.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You mean "dozens of downvotes" specifically directed at a single community?

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't even have downvotes on my instance but would that really be unusual? I often see a lot of people on a thread making the same wrong statements. I could see how that kind of thing would lead to a lot of downvotes in the same community and I was never very heavy handed with my downvoting.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In this case I'm referring to the hypothetical of a single account, consistently downvoting almost every post on a community with zero interaction history. And they keep doing it.

I can't speak for whatever you've done or been accused of, but those accounts do exist and it's completely justifiable that some community owners ban them.

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think votes should be an actionable metric in any circumstance. Bots should be banned, but real people should be allowed to vote as much as they want on whatever they want. Otherwise you're just cultivating an echo chamber.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Disagree. If I run a metal music community, and someone who doesn't like metal continually goes in there and downvotes everything because, well, they don't like metal music. What use are they to it? Why wouldn't I ban them? All they're doing is hurting the visibility of the community. This is the context in which I would ban downvoters from my community. Serial mass downvoting by people who never otherwise engage with the community, don't like the topic of the community, and in some cases - the accounts have zero comment history and purely exist to downvote.

I think this is quite different to just 'wanting an echo-chamber'.

[–] ipitco@lemmybefree.net 1 points 5 months ago (6 children)

the whole "if you don't like the content, don't downvote, but just ignore / block it" is really cringe

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don’t have an issue with this instance being pro-AI, but I find it weird as fuck how harshly skeptics are treated

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I find it weird how harsh AI haters treat people who use it.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

People are assholes to people who disagree with them, no matter the topic.

You can find examples of people on each 'side' being assholes. Social media teaches people to be outraged, not to have any empathy.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

Db0 has unhinged mods, and an admin that doesn't give a shit about it. Simple as.

[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (17 children)

Db0ero is explicitely pro AI

I would guess the Mod has gone full shizo and banned you from the whole instance and everywhere he could because you downvoted an AI generated image.

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