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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:
- 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.
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- Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.
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Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
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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.
- 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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Finally got banned from lemm.ee, did you?
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] This dude is evading my attempts to block him, via an endless series of new accounts he makes on new instances. Please consider this a report for block evasion and harassment, as applied to his UniversalMonk account on your instance (all of those being instances on which he's previously made some new account and then had an interaction which caused me to block that account and ask him to stop contacting me.)
(Not that you losing an account on any given instance is really that big an obstacle of course. Like I said, it's a flaw in how Lemmy is set up, from the perspective of moderation, and actually exactly why I don't give a ton of leeway to new accounts that show strong signs of being up to some kind of malicious behavior.)
Edit: Since it kind of got lost in the forest of replies below: Yes, I have proof of them deliberately evading blocks, by trying to talk to me on blocked accounts, then switching accounts to non-blocked accounts and then posting "random" comments as the first actions from the non-blocked accounts: https://ponder.cat/post/1596872/1838056
They've also participated via voting in communities they were banned from. It was only a few times, so it could have been an accident. But also, they've making dozens of new alts because the old ones keep getting banned and they want to keep doing the same stuff that got them banned, so it's a little disingenuous to claim there's no possible way they could keep up with all the blocks and bans that have been applied to them, because it's so complicated at this point, so it doesn't count.
As that user said, they're not deliberately attempting to block evade. Just a side effect of making a new account
I've seen them posting in communities and instances they have previously been banned from. If they made an attempt to avoid it that would be one thing but they don't.
I'm almost certain they are ban evading with their alts.
You were caught here in the act posting to communities on an instance you were banned from.
Also caught cloning other users...
Woah glad you caught that, just gave a ping to sopuli.xyz's admins on the page hopefully they'll respond soon and deal with that.
He has a few other alts as well, but it's not exactly my day job to keep detailed notes. However, I am sick of his shit and that dude is a fucking cockroach.
TBH, I don't think it's really against any rules to dup a username across instances as SMCF is actually on .world. However, this is being done with malice and should be addressed. UM must have been holding a grudge from when he was banned from .world.
Honestly, I think the issue is that it really is a job, and there isn't anyone who's really well-positioned to take charge of it.
Any system which allows easy, anonymous account creation is going to be subject to some level of abuse. Any system which does that, and also is distributed among multiple instances with admins who don't always see eye-to-eye on things, is going to be absolutely helpless in the face of even a very rudimentary attempt at abuse, and anyone who wants to will be able to run rings around the admins and just kind of run around doing whatever they want. Telling people "just block the obnoxious people on whatever new accounts they make when they get banned" obviously isn't the answer, but it's what people fall back on because it is the only thing that can be relied upon to work.
I think Bluesky's idea of federating out block lists (basically, as I understand it) is probably the most straightforward non-awful way. You don't want to make every new user encounter every obnoxious person and learn, one by one, who they are and that they need to block them. That way lies madness.
Shared block lists could be implemented into the clients as well, but it would take a bit to keep those from getting abused and wouldn't scale over time too well.
But yeah, this is a major issue with Lemmy and is probably the major reason I don't think this platform can scale up to Reddit size. Once trolls take over, everyone will leave.
Not sure how much clearer I can make it. I would love to be able to block and move on, that's what I did. You are committed to not respecting the block, taking actions from new alts which will send me notifications, and then lying in this strange fashion about it. I understand why you're pretending that's not what you did. But I'm happy to provide proof in the form of screenshots or anything else. Or, any admin can verify it.
You are allowed to be here, sure. Everyone is. You're not allowed to violate the rules of the space. And, when someone's sufficiently unrepentant about not respecting the rules of the space, they lose their right to be here. Your commitment to going beyond "saying what you want" and instead, among other things, starting to harass and irritate other users deliberately when they exercise their right to say what they want, is exactly what keeps losing you accounts. That's the system protecting itself.
Yeah I agree, having multiple accounts with the same username is okay when your intention isn't to cause malice. When one is doing it to impersonate/namesquat or just to troll and ban evade then it's a problem. It's part of why I have as many as I do. It makes it extremely difficult for people to impersonate me, except on the handful of excommunicated instances I never signed up to but those will be very clearly recognized as impersonation.
I frankly don't believe you and I don't think you believe that yourself. You've been caught in the act both for impersonation and ban evasion. You are not innocent here and if you were you should've appealed instead of making more accounts.
I told you to quit mumbling. I can't hear a word you are saying.
We don't owe trolls shit.
(But it's a simple username lookup, btw.)
What?
You are notorious for ban evasion. The fact that you’re here casting aspersions on others for doing what you do clearly indicates the fact that you’re a troll.
Aaahhh… the old “it’s not me” trick.
While that is some top-notch trollsmanship, you do know I don’t believe any of that bullshit, right? I’d imagine very few do. And, I’m not sure if you’re aware, but- most people generally don’t go where they’re not wanted. And as you have acknowledged, no one wants you here.
Lastly, if you’re accusing @[email protected] of impersonating you, you should own the accusation and not beat around the bush.
Nice try.
Yeah, the person that has been banned by countless communities and instances across lemmy- and currently can’t stop getting themselves banned should totally be trusted to tell the truth.
And would you just look at that? You were banned as recently as less than an hour ago. Looks like even the conservatives can’t stand you.
Sure, troll! :)
Yeah, didn’t read past the part where you said you didn’t care if I believed you- then created a wall of text.
You clearly don’t care.
Well, I can’t prove a negative, so I guess that’ll just have to be as irrelevant as your presence here.
But what I can do, is I can promise that whatever it says, I don’t give a shit. And Rhys is a proven positive.
Oh, and lastly- remember that day you got originally banned? I’d like you to know that I was the one that reported your vulgar and harassing PMs you kept sending me after I told you several times to leave me alone. Remember that? Well, within a an hour or so after my report- you were banned from .world. I’d like you to always remember- I did that.
You’re a troll. You don’t belong here.
Yeah, didn’t read that either.
Cry harder, troll.