this post was submitted on 10 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.


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.


Some acronyms you might see.


Relevant comms

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1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards

https://lemmy.ml/u/davel

2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

Community Ban

3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).

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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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(I have not posted there)

Likewise the community has no rules listed, so I'm not sure how I've broken rule 4

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Davel is probably going to try to claim me downvoting a post or comment of his that popped up on my feed or something as me breaking the entire instances rule 4 (no spam?) - which is why I need to be banned only from one community I don't engage in.

Lemmy.ml admin Davel has been rage downvoting my posts a lot lately, even going so far as to downvote me telling real legitimate antisemites to 'fuck off'.

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Even CowBee had the decency to admit they were in the wrong and change their ragevote to an upvote.

Davel however seems to especially thinskinned even for the typical .ML'er and would rather double down and engage in poorly disguised retaliation bans for criticisms of a political ideology.

This thought terminating behaviour on display by one of the admins of such a reputable and outstanding instance as Lemmy.ml was not at all warranted and I hereby call on the leadership at lemmy.ML to unban me so that I may continue to not post in their community.

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[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If I block someone - I never see their content, posts, or messages to me again.

What aspect is ineffective?

In most cases, you’d want a block to go both directions. Imagine you’re being stalked by a user. In its current implementation, blocking that user won’t stop the stalking, because they can still see and interact with your posts. You simply won’t be able to see their interactions. If they comment on your post, you won’t see it because you have them blocked. But your block does not prevent them from seeing, voting on, or commenting on your post.

Essentially, lemmy’s current block function works more like a mute. When you “block” someone, you’re just muting their interactions so you don’t see the harassment. But it doesn’t actually stop them from harassing you. It just ensures you can’t see it to stay on top of it. To use the earlier stalker example, what if they’re amping up their stalking and have started doxxing you, and you’re completely oblivious because you’re not seeing their responses to your posts?

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

most other fediverse softwares have blocks run two ways to reduce risk of harm via stalking, brigading, and dogpiling. there's a difference between muting someone and blocking them on things like mastodon. on lemmy blocks are equivalent to mutes on mastodon

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I can see how that would be very helpful to some people. Thanks for explaining

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy.ml admin Davel has been rage downvoting my posts a lot lately

this someone can still follow you and downvote everything you post, and comment on everything you post, and all you’ve done is make it so you can’t tell.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I mean.. I guess that's not ideal? On the other hand, they keep wasting their time, and I get on with my life. So I'm OK with it this way.

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

that’s fine if you assume it’s just one single person and you’re still on the 1997 internet

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Well now I'm not sure what you're after. If it turns into brigading that's a separate issue, and blocking one or two users from seeing your post won't fix that, right?