this post was submitted on 07 Jul 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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Recently entered the platform and already got recognized by one of the top modblog contributors - the MysticMushroom1776 @lemmy.dbzer0.com. And I got the title troll in so much communities. And I haven't posted there even once.

But, as I understood from the modblog, getting a ban from this moderator is very common and thus doesn't feel like something special. Especially, since there are no direct requirements specified for receiving it. And in private messages I was unsuccessful in getting answers.

So, maybe here can the moderator give the whole list of what to do(or not to do) to gain such attention, so that other people can/can't get it too? Because of the rules for comunities don't give enough info.

Thanks in advance.

P. S. Made post more serious.

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[–] Quokka@quokk.au 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

Lot of new accounts in here stirring shit up. Is this the usual troll again?

Edit: And all these new accounts are calling her a fascist, the only users to do. This troll is always so annoying, how many years of your life are you going to waste harassing one user?

Edit2: Oh look, my comment was downvoted but what's this all downvoting accounts were made within the last 6 hours.

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OP is part of a multi year long trolling and harassment campaign against a singular user. They frequently spin up alt accounts to create drama and cause shit. And because they are so obvious at what they do MM bans them frequently.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

OP is part of a multi year long trolling and harassment campaign against a singular user

Yep! A very common thing on Lemmy. Some of the users here get obsessed and just don't know how to move on. I still get trolls following me around because they are still mad about stuff I said 2 years ago! They're so broken and obsessive. lol

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago

The community (lemmy) is just small enough to be able to notice the same handful of people everywhere, but not large enough to let it the fuck go even though we all really should

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

every single time. I dunno what ze did to piss them off originally, but now every time ze is mentioned they spin up several alts and post the absolute worst transphobic shit you've ever seen.

whoever it is that is so obsessed with MM, I honestly hope you fucking die after tripping down several flights of stairs into a lake of lava.

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Yeah, I got banned for being an AI troll despite not posting in any of their coms and not trolling anywhere else. Kinda seems they just take any negative AI sentiment anywhere as proof of trolling or antagonistic behavior.

The thing that really confuses me though is the Europe com. I can understand wanting to make your safe little slop spaces, but to then just have one called "Europe" which should have absolutely nothing to do with AI be a mandated pro AI com is just weird, controlling behavior.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think I remember that Europe community being created because of heavy handed moderation on .world's Europe. DBZ was supposed to be the "free" instance that didn't have that problem.

As you say, most of those are fringe slop communities and who cares if they're heavy handed in their little fiefdoms, but they definitely shouldn't be running a continent wide place community. If that Europe ever took off they need to get rid of them or move again.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 days ago

I think large communities should elect mods each year

[–] RollyJeho@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

This moderator likes to ban in all of their communities at the same time. I suppose that this is some kind of insecurity to prevent revenge towards them in a form of inappropriate behavior in other communities. This does prevents banned person to interact with them in their comunities, but doesn't prevent of doing so in other, like here. Normal people send a warning or something firstly, not instant permaban. This is what makes this moderator a questionable person.

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In the case of this mod though, there's not even anything to warn against. They just don't understand online discourse and are knee jerkingly overly reactive.

[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Holy PTB, Batman

I assumed you were downvoting them left, right, center, up, down, and sideways. Yeah. You downvoted them one time, at 2:35AM (not sure which timezone). You received your "automated ban" 1 hour and ~15 minutes later.

Hell, looking at ALL your voting, you seem more reliable of a voter than I am.

This is petty-level power tripping.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I see at least several downvotes on MM via lemvotes within a couple minutes. I didn't dig through all their vote history, but I would wager there's probably more in there somewhere.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Double PTB. Nothing show you trolling on any of those communities and if you did you should only be banned in the single community where you not respected the rule

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 7 points 5 days ago

If I ran a Lemmy instance, one of my instance rules would be that no single person can be a moderator of more than one community at a time.

[–] RollyJeho@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

The fun part is that I, as I am now starting to suspect, have shown "too much" disagreement with posts and comments of this moderator. But, in the same time, not less have I disliked/liked others. So it seems that it was some kind of auto ban for too much dislikes.

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[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They're bonkers lol. Funnily enough in a recent thread mystic called someone else doing this a PTB.

Lemmy is a joke, the worst people from reddit mod all the comms.

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago

Huh, so this is how I discover neither futurology or fedinsfw have registration applications enabled. Their admins probably should change that.

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I got that one! The piece of shit called me 'neoliberal' instead of troll, which is kind of slander and I'm more upset about than the bans.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 4 points 5 days ago (14 children)

probably has something to do with you downvoting a ton of their comments. judging from the cringe teenage edgelord tone of this post, seems like they were right about you being a troll, whether or not the ban was deserved.

you also seem to have a tendency to downvote leftist content while upvoting liberal content that's trashing leftists of some kind or another. which might not raise any eyebrows for people from LW or other Zio trash servers, but is going to raise some eyebrows on this server.

[–] RollyJeho@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

LOL. I have used this style of writing because of the rest of the posts in this channel are kinda depressed. But, agree. Maybe I should remove emoji. But I definitely haven't trolled anyone here, yet(I assume you actually need to post something like comments or post). Preferences in upvoting and downvoting shouldn't be connected to banning in any matter. So, the only thing left is the fact that I disliked some posts and comments of this moderator. But I wouldn't say that there was like a tonn of them. I only discovered recent posts + lurked a bit here. If downvoting here in reasonable amounts for disagreement is considered being a troll, than this is not as happy place as I imagined it.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

The reason should be spam activity in that case

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[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

PTB I got banned as well and I havent done anything. Never interracted with the said mod and comms. Also I hardly downvote anything because i always upvote content to make fediverse more engaging.

One of the main reasons why I chose this instance because of trasparency and no hierarchy. So I thought no one could easily abuse power and ban people willy nilly. Even though admins dont do that, and I appriciate them, its heartbreaking to see this behavior here.

I think we need a rule or something to prevent this kind of behaviour. Also It would be nice if MM get unmodded from Europe and other nonpersonal comms.

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