this post was submitted on 18 Jan 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.

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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.

YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.


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A rage bait post they just restored: https://lemmy.world/post/24282976. The initial removal was about rule 3 - no rage baiting. That rule has been removed.

Another rage bait comment against vegans: https://lemmy.world/comment/14535452

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

Gonna have to say YDI here sorry. Blanket downvoting is a bannable offense in any community because it denegrates the platform as a whole.

Ironically, I'm not even banned myself, as I participated (and generally don't downvote that much anyway, whatever the community)

What isn't really clear here is that users seems to have been banned for one single downvote? Seems a bit extreme.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nope.

Only users not participating and either blanket downvoting multiple posts or downvoting specifically this ONE moderator's post banning downvoting without participation were banned.

You are actually the best example here - you have participated and are not banned.

Coming to the community just to downvote is toxic. Since banned users don't contribute, they have no interest being there.

You don't like a certain community - block and move on with your life. Don't behave like a dick.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

i’m aware; i said YDI because thats the colloqualism in the sidebar. “you” means the modded users here :P

if you have evidence that it was truly a single downvote ban i would post that because that’s a real issue of algorithm manipulation — but way different from blanket downvoting bans.