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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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] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If this is power tripping, then shouldn’t meat lovers be justified in brigading vegan communities to blanket downvote posts?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, they would be, see:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27711002

The consensus is that you should not ban people for downvoting. At the time, vegan posts in that community would be massively downvoted vs upvoted so beaver used some sort of automation to ban everyone who downvoted. That was considered power tripping so beaver was removed and everyone was unbanned. I was thinking that maybe beaver took it too far after reading the comments in the thread I linked. But now I'm unsure, since the consensus has shifted and it is ok to ban people for downvoting when it comes to this carnivore community. Idk.

I found I kept downvoting and getting disgusted by these carnivore communities since they kept showing up in my feed, so I blocked them. Votes don't matter as much in lemmy as they did in reddit, but they are public which has always given me the ick.

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

Well, votes not mattering isn't totally correct, as some communities use the tool that auto-bans anyone who gets enough downvotes over the last month, so you can use brigading to get those people banned from communities they might visit.

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

Yeah I forgot, I remember someone talking about Pleasant Politics doing this. I don't think votes should be used like that but it is not up to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I think it's a not-well thought out idea. All it would take is a group of several people, or one person with several alts, and you could send most people into the red on updoots and get them banned.

Wonder if the tool can ban mods? If so, you could dethrone the mods of Pleasant Politics long enough to cause some serious chaos before the admins got on and fixed the problem. It seems like a potential security vulnerability, to be honest.