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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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  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).
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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.

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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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[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

My first lemmy account was banned from the fed. Because I spoke ill of Israel. I figured this place isn’t much better than Reddit.

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You're a bit more easygoing with the downvotes than the average Lemmy user. Those rarely downvote, while you do like 30% downvotes. Maybe that triggered someone if you did something like scroll through a community and hand out several downvotes consecutively. But I don't think you're doing anything wrong here.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There might be a misunderstanding... I only downvoted one post in one of those communities once. The others were untouched. As I said, some of them don't even have any posts to downvote.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

How can you tell what you downvoted while randomly scrolling through the all feed or your subscriptions 3 months ago? I certainly couldn't remember.

And the communities you were banned from aren't necessarily the ones you downvoted in... That's just the realm of the admin or mod who banned you. But they could have based the decision on other behaviour or downvotes of yours.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How can you tell what you downvoted while scrolling through the all feed or your subscriptions 3 months ago?

By looking at the ban times and then comparing to the (very few) number of downvotes I made on my account in a range around that period.

But they could have based the decision on other behaviour or downvotes of yours.

I hadn't participated in those Communities outside that downvote whatsoever, so that would be doubtful.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Ah right, maybe that was it. I remember seeing the post as well. You got "called out" by name publicly. For supposed "brigading". And told to F off. That must be the reason for this?! https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What are they even alleged to be doing in that post?

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Good question. I don't know when Lemmy got the feature that mods can see all votes, but looks to me someone is agitated/frustrated or something and goes through the logs. We had some discussion back then about people doing their thing in their communities and then some random people aren't even subscribed and do drive-by downvotes... Which is a bit frustrating. And AI is one of the many polarizing topics here. People tried discussing it in peace but it's not very easy. Maybe OP got caught in the turmoil of this. Or they pissed off that person and then the next downvote was one too many... I don't really know. And the person calling out people by name sounds a bit agitated. I'd say someone with that state of mind is likely going to react a bit more extreme. And they're concerned with voting fraud and brigading in general.

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[–] blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Then you check some of those communities and there's like less than 10 posts in them.

There's more banned people than content.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 5 months ago

If they are such tiny communities then the question is why do so many trolls go out of their way to find them, downvote everything, and harass/bully the mods? Not saying that was the case in this instance, but it's been an ongoing problem, which is why the mods are a bit twitchy I guess.

[–] QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Whoa, I thought only the conservative mods were pulling this

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You think only conservatives mods would want to create safe positive environments for their users?

I don’t think that’s at all what conservatives want to do.

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[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

There have been frequent brigades of late in ai communities by anti-AI folks.

Your downvote likely coincided in timing and appeared as part of another downvote brigade.

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[–] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm a moderator on !stable_diffusion_art@lemmy.dbzer0.com, where you've never upvoted once, but you have downvoted multiple posts over months instead of blocking the community. This down-ranks submissions, adversely affecting the visibility of the community for subscribers, which is why you were banned.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28218497

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35031819

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38704142

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/44766239

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[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Disabling downvotes can avoid such drama. Some instances do.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Rare to see a beehaw user so far away from spawn.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How did you reply to them? I thought beehaw defederated LW

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