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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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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.

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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.

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I'm pretty sure awful.systems shadowbanned me for disagreeing with them on one topic one time + (a bit of an uncivil comment in hindsight). Mods completely silent in DMs.

Comment in question:

Look at these two pages of the same thread:

Not making this up. Images link to the posts. More:

Kinda feels like this, lol:

Here's the ban action:

Their mod history is fucky, shows mod history 3 years ago before showing what happened 3 or 4 days ago. Feel free to verify. (Bear in mind that you will need to move forward a page or two if you read this later).

If I'm banned, why can i still post? Also, wtf was Self on about? I've only had positive experiences before getting banned. You can literally see in the comment above that I've gotten positive sentiment before. ASAIK, I've not posted on awful.systems other than the times above.

Most importantly, I wouldn't care if it was a month ban or 3 month ban even but like perma/shadow ban? for what? a mild insult and disagreeing with your circle jerk one time?

I genuinely liked the community on that instance. It had good takes ~80% of the time. Shame.

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Their mod history is fucky, shows mod history 3 years ago before showing what happened 3 or 4 days ago. Feel free to verify.

Huh.

Looks like the mod history has a gap, but it's from 8 days to 3 months

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, it's definitely fucked. Trying to hit next technically seems to skip over pages, but it's moot because every page is just a copy of page one.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

To clarify, there's no way there were no actions taken between 8 days and 3 months ago... They're just not in order or they're not showing every action, if that makes sense?? If you go to the next page, you'll see that pattern continue. Sorry if I'm being confusing

[–] Nothing4You@programming.dev 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

modlog view is a bit broken currently and doesn't make much sense if you don't know how it works.

the modlog view currently merges the different types of modlog entries in a single view, but the pagination doesn't make much sense that way.

for example, removing a comment is an action that happens quite frequently, but removing a community does not. the modlog shows e.g. up to 20 actions per modlog entry type, so you may see comment removals for the last few hours, but community removals could be for the past year. then when you hit next page, you'll see the next page for each type, but the times make even less sense now. you'll see entries 20-40 for comments, but also 20-40 for communities.

the timeline will be consistent when you filter for specific entry types.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 1 points 17 hours ago

I see... i didn't know that's how it worked.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago

I can confirm that if they did ban you, that ban information wasn't federated out. There's no mod actions in the lemmy.ca DB for you from that instance.