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:

Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Rules

Post only about bans or other sanctions that you have received from a mod or admin.
Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
Don’t deobfuscate mod names from the modlog with admin powers.
Don’t harass mods or brigade comms. Don’t word your posts in a way that would trigger such harassment and brigades.
Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.
You can post about power trippin’ in any social media, not just lemmy. Feel free to post about reddit or a forum etc.
If you are the accused PTB, while you are welcome to respond, please do so within the relevant post.

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.

PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.

Relevant comms

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Are we all "Anti-AI Trolls"? Enforcement of instance rules and community standards. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I hope I'm not exposing myself to some kind of retailation, but here it goes.

It has been brought to my attention in a totally unrelated discussion that moderator(s) of !stable_diffusion_witches@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !stable_diffusion_mycology@lemmy.dbzer0.com hosted here on db0 seemingly randomly ban users (including me) which had never ever even interacted with the community as being "Anti-AI Trolls", "Neoliberals" or other names. Some other users are banned for "Vote Manipulation" (what does that even mean?! you still addicted to reddit's karma or what?).

While I totally don't mind these communities, content served by them and their rules as stated in the sidebar, I somehow found myself caring for what lemmy.dbzer0.com represents in the fediverse. I am of strong stance that such behaviour like described above (proactively banning random users) stands in a potential violation of The Golden Rules which are the foundation of this instance. This starts to be noticeable and brings negative perception of our instance.

I claim that such behaviour is in contradiction of rules calling for cooperative participation in the community by creating "closed garden" of only the most trusted users by the moderation where noone else can participate. The rules under which someone is banned are not clear, bans are not directly connected to any particular user comment and/or action.

I call for the community to voice their oppinion about this matter and if the community agrees with my objection to such behaviour as described above, I call for a proper action to be taken to enforce the community standards.

Thank you.

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree they shouldn't be banned when they aren't harassing.

I think we just don't agree what constitutes harassment.

Sometimes it's obvious, like today and a month back at Mystic. A user insulting directly, or spinning up a bot to impersonate and say horrid shit about them.

Sometimes it's basically digitally stalking communities like Hexbear does. Lefty Memes on here has Hexbear users that pounce on the comments if you call out simping for dictators isn't exactly any good for anyone.

Maybe I need my coffee and I'm autistic as fuck at times, but you're not my enemy here, I just find it odd that people (not you here) don't like a community, and instead of avoiding it, get involved with it in a bad way.

Is that every user banned in the Stable communities? I can't say for certain. Mystic has data on zir end that has vote manipulation, and documenting the harassment.

I'll admit that I might be biased, I might be dumb here, I might be not fully awake or picking up context clues. But I've seen the shit flung at Mystic for just having a community online where they don't spread it outside of that, and to some that's a crime that demands becoming a lolcow for Lemmy.

Mystic has responded on the db0 community feedback, as has db0 himself about this. Db0 has no issues with this issue. Mystic doesn't come in here as no one expects the data zir provides, because they want to be unbanned despite not wanting to interact with the communities.

I'm not trying to shut you up, and I hope you're doing the same. I'm just trying to say I understand and sympathize with Mystic here. You saw today just one of the things people will do to zir just because they post content online.

Is every mod action there fair? Fuck if i know, I'm not one of the mods there. I don't like being an mod on Lemmy, I made this account to avoid that when I abandoned the last time I was.

I don't wish to keep this going I don't think either one of us is going to suddenly change our views here. We could go for hours or days on end, and go nowhere with it.

I'm going to make my coffee and try to be with my friends this morning. This is not a "haha I win, I'm leaving now" this is me explaining why I'm not coming back for a debate for today at least.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 10 points 2 days ago

I'm not trying to shut you up, and I hope you're doing the same. I'm just trying to say I understand and sympathize with Mystic here. You saw today just one of the things people will do to zir just because they post content online.

Is every mod action there fair? Fuck if i know, I'm not one of the mods there. I don't like being an mod on Lemmy, I made this account to avoid that when I abandoned the last time I was.

I don't wish to keep this going I don't think either one of us is going to suddenly change our views here. We could go for hours or days on end, and go nowhere with it.

I'm going to make my coffee and try to be with my friends this morning. This is not a "haha I win, I'm leaving now" this is me explaining why I'm not coming back for a debate for today at least.

Yeah, I mean it's fine. I'm not trying to "debate," I'm trying to get you to grasp the point that I was banned for literally no reason at all. I've never participated in that community, I'm not an "anti-AI troll," I'm not harassing them by any stretch of the possible imagination. My only participation even adjacent to that is sometimes from my previous account upvoting content from the main Stable Diffusion community because I like it. I sometimes talk negatively about some types of AI, as it happens I have some recent comments talking positively about it, but I don't really have any kind of tribal affiliation either for or against.

I don't know why you keep bringing stuff that other people have done into the conversation, and trying to triangulate this thing where because this moderator was harassed by somebody else, that means they have a right to accuse anybody they want of anything they want. That doesn't make any sense to me, I think it's a toxic pattern that should be called out when it happens. That's the only reason I care to any degree about any of this. I am unlikely to participate in any of the places I was banned from, overall it's fine. My point is just that falling into this thinking where we have to be in tribes and one person from one tribe was a victim and so they lashed out at a bunch of other people and it's okay because they're a victim, that's wrong.