this post was submitted on 11 Apr 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.


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The post in question, if interested:

Also, I don't know how to see which mod/admin banned me, so if you know how to in the modlog, definitely let me know.

Banned for 7 days, so I'm not super mad or anything - I just thought it was funny.

Honestly I don't blame them - I'd be embarrassed about people finding out my community was on .ml too.

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[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 week ago

BPR & YDI. It's perfectly reasonable to disklike .ml's moderation practices, but you effectively went into their community just to troll them about it. What did you expect to happen? 7 days seems reasonable to me, and it's only a community ban.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago

I mean, if you're dangling bait, don't be surprised when the trout start biting.

Bpr, absolutely.

I mean, I get it, ml really does take that extra attention because if the community is there, or a user is from there, chances are that you're going to run into zealotry eventually.

But when you make the effort to poke at the scab, it's not really on them when they poke back.

Truth is, of wouldn't even need to be .ml, if you did something similar anywhere, a temp ban is legit. Shit stirring can only be tolerated so much, so you have to make it clear that is isn't going to work out the way the stirrers want, otherwise it snowballs

[–] redrumBot@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

removed post

Rule 2 on ml: Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.

YDI.

[–] pelikan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wow, that's the real reason why the deleted comment isn't quoted in the original post. That's clear YDI case, the moderator did a good job by kicking out the bad faith troll.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 13 points 1 week ago

What did you think was going to happen with a bad faith comment like that? Totally deserved ban.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am too lazy to cut-and-paste links, but we were just having a discussion about you. (Just read the last couple of posts in my profile history for more information.)

[–] hakase@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh wow, I just finished making a post over there lol. I'd been gone all day and didn't realize there was already a post.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

YDI. Good decision by the .ml admins.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

YDI + BPR. Yup, both.

You didn't just say what instance the comm is in; you were clearly implying that it's pointless to engage in good faith there. It falls squarely into rule #2 (be respectful, specially when disagreeing).

At the same time we know how poorly the .ml admin team reacts to things they disagree with. And, even if you were making the comm less welcoming, odds are that you weren't banned for that, but because you rubbed off the admins the wrong way.

EDIT: it's relevant to note that I'm often criticising the .ml admin team, as anyone can see here, here, here, here, here. As such, if I'm blaming the OP in this specific case, it's because I genuinely believe that OP dun goofed. Is this clear?

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

the instance whose name shall not be mentioned 👽 🤣

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

So what does ml stand for?

[–] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

.ml Domains are from Mali and are sometimes used for machine learning

Though in this case he wanted to say that it's a "lemmy.ml" community, a known tankie instance

[–] idealpink@feddit.nu 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

A Stalin/USSR/CCP/North Korea and sometimes Putin apologist. Authoritarian communists.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

I am honestly lost how Lemmy search is working. Out of curiosity I tried to search for Lemmy.ml communities and the only two I can see are meta and paradox.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

Marxism Leninism

But what they do is Stalinism

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Myopic Losers.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago
[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

LOL they took the bait.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago

PTB for sure.

And which of the two admins were responsible for this I wonder. Because the community moderation teams of .ml don’t ever seem to do jack shit.