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.

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Banned for Voting Incorrectly? (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All (potentially accidentally while scrolling).

Important notes:

I don't use scripts.
I don't mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don't like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on.
Some of the communities I was banned from don't have any posts in them so I wouldn't have been able to downvote anything.
Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It's quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette.
One of my bans reads "Appeal Granted, not a brigading member" but I'm still banned.
I don't troll.

WTF is going on here?

EDIT - Updated Info from the conversation below: In the initial image, you can see two "ban waves."

The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community. It was @[email protected] See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477

I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.

The other bans from two months ago are from four total downvotes over a 10-month timeframe in one Community.

I have also stated in this thread that I don't have issues with AI-gen images, but there are shoddy ones and well-done ones.

EDIT 2: Now unbanned from the ten Communities listed as "3 months ago" in my initial image, but have been banned from three more because of this thread with the reason given being "self-proclaimed anti-AI brigader" which are two things I didn't claim to be. God dammit Lemmy...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

Well luckily it was just AI slop and they didn’t actually make anything.

Meh, I actually have a very successful side business selling things with AI slop all over them. So there is something I make with AI: money. I make more money from that than my retirement check. I steal from the lying capitalist megacorps. lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That's very capitalist of you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm using their own methods against them. No regrets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stealing from the rich to give to the poor. You're distributing the wealth to the poor, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Stealing from the rich to give to the poor. You’re distributing the wealth to the poor, right?

I sponsor a family with Compassion International. (https://www.compassion.com/sponsor_a_child/) One of the better .orgs, but I don't like how they don't give the money directly to the families themselves. They give to the community, which is fine, but they should be more specific about that. I signed up before I knew those details, but I get such special letters from the child that I support w this program, that I don't wanna cancel.
I sponsor two different families through Unbound. (https://www.unbound.org/) One of the top orgs for sponsoring a child. Both families are in Guatemala. I exchange letters and videos with both families. And this org actually sends 90% of donations directly to sponsored families, giving them control to meet their specific needs rather than funneling aid through preset programs.
I donate to the elementary and middle schools where I used to work as an affective needs teacher before I retired. Both schools serve children in underserved communities. I also regularly visit local thrift stores to buy children’s clothing to donate to the elementary school. The clothes are kept in the principal’s office and used when students have accidents (bathroom, playground, P.E., or art class, etc.) so they can change at school. Many parents can’t leave work during the day, so this helps prevent embarrassment for the child and keeps them comfortable without disrupting their learning.Please call your local elementary school and see if they need donations like this as well, and ask what sizes they need. Solid color clothes with no logo or graphics are preferred.
I buy children's books for the Free Little Library that I have in front of my house so that it is always stocked with books. I also buy and donate books to the Free Little Library in front of my former schools.
I'm a member of the Red Cross and I volunteer there by transporting donated blood from donation centers to hospitals. I do that 2 days a week, and that takes gas.
I donate to the teacher's union that I was a part of.
I also donate to a local Socialist Workers Party office in my city. And regularly donate to their main org as well. I also started and maintain SWP comms here on Lemmy.
I also keep up a spare room in my house for friends (or friends of friends) that need a quick place to stay in order to get back on their feet for whatever life throws at them.

I don't have a lot of extra, but what I have goes to those projects.

Now list what you do, friend. Because I bet you earn way more money than I do.

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