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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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awful.systems shadowbanned me? (lemm.ee)
submitted 11 hours ago by Rin@lemm.ee to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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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[–] Nothing4You@programming.dev 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

you can simply check your profile and modlog on the instance in question. it'll show that you got banned from that instance 8 days ago. since you didn't participate in any community on that instance there were no community bans federated out. instance bans currently don't federate, only community bans for communities on the instance you got banned from, if you have previously participated in them.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago

I see, i didn't know that. Thanks :)

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

The admin of a small Awful instance is handing out bans from their instance to people from other instances who make posts on other other instances which offend the Awful admin.

Basically some cranky person is publishing their personal block list and the appropriate response is to ignore the Awfully-run instance.

Look at this guy trying to act like a wise referee handing out meaningless bans with zero effect. It’s like if I shout “red card!” at a TV soccer match.

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

Still mad @ensign_crab@lemmy.world got banned for that when PugJesus was the aggressor of that.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

None of them got any bans except from the Awful instance they weren’t even using.

This is just some guy yelling into the ether about posts that rustle his jimmies.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

Ah then I am misreading, clearly I need to take a break from lemmy today. My apologies.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 9 hours ago

Heck I can't even tell who took mod action normally on me because if you get any notice its small on detail and as I have learned what is necessary to find out its like eff that bs. I just block the community and move on. Its like I stop going to clubs with the annoying bouncer or staff member.

[–] rob299@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I didn't know you could get shadowbanned on Lemmy. The most I ever hear about are straight forward temp bans or Perma bans. Sometimes you might be lucky and it might just be a simple comment removal o post removal resulting in no ban to the user.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

You can't be shadowbanned in Lemmy and I doubt the developers will ever add it, OP just misunderstood the situation.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Hopefully the devs will make changes to the system to remove these shortcomings. Like Federating site bans in the modlog to all sites. Like instead of saying person was banned say person was banned from instance.tld maybe only say person was banned locally on that instance. Would clear up a lot of these funny issues.

[–] rob299@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

Ah ok. I didn't think that was a possibility on Lemmy.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

I didn’t know you could get shadowbanned on Lemmy.

I've def had the feeling that I've been shadowbanned from some places, but I don't know if it's something that's done on Lemmy or not.

I never really cared enough to look into it too deeply though.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 11 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 11 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 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 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 5 points 10 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 10 hours ago

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

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 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.