this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2024

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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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PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
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LemmyWorld/PoliticalVideos mod makes clear no criticism of Democrats committing Genocide is allowed. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Linkerbaan to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Telling a known troublemaker they are on thin ice isn't "power tripping".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If anything it's a mistake to not ban them, their behavior hasn't shown signs of changing. When it comes to people like this banning them is the best thing for the community, or even the instance/fediverse as a whole.

[–] qaz 10 points 2 months ago (40 children)

I was hoping they just acted a bit harshly because of their concerns about the matter at hand, but it seems that that was a mistake.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (6 children)

YDI and honestly CLM, them tolerating you being there is a tactical error as a moderator. Your reputation precedes you, it's well known that you've very uncivil, hostile, and often engage in bad-faith discourse. I couldn't blame most mods for banning you on sight, I couldn't even blame most mods for banning you preemptively with an API request if they knew before. I can't even blame many instance admins for banning you from their site, because your behavior is atrocious, and isn't changing.

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[+] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There are indeed API calls for banning users from communities. They're not accessible in Lemmy-UI, they make you do it from a comment or post there, but you can do it from anywhere.

Here's the API call you use to do it: https://[instance url]/api/v3/community/ban_user

And the body data you need, as well as some auth data specific to your session or account login not included here: `{"community_id":[community ID],"person_id":[User ID],"ban":true,"remove_data":false,"reason":"[Ban reason]"}

You can get User ID from a DM with the person, and you can get community ID by editing your community settings and taking a look at the request in the network tab of your Browser Dev tools.

You can execute one of these by opening dev tools, going to Network tab, editing and saving community settings, then hit edit and resend request. Change the type from SET to POST then replace the API URL with the one here, and replace the body of the request with the one here with the data appropriately filled out, and when you hit send, it'll ban the user from the community.

I highly recommend community mods use this technique to deal with known bad actors before they infiltrate your community. Obviously one can go overboard and use it too much, but there are plenty of times it's best to stop them before they join your community rather than after.

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[–] PugJesus 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

YDI

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Also a clueless mod, if they understood the situation with this person they would've banned him on sight. His bad behavior doesn't show any sign of changing so it would be a wise thing to do. Normally it's not great to do but in cases where the person has a long history of hostility and bad behavior it makes sense.

[–] irreticent 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

YDI.

Also, I'm starting to suspect you do it on purpose. I mean, you're constantly doing and saying things you know will be downvoted.

I remember downvote farming as a hobby on Reddit; they even had a few subreddits with leaderboards. I never really understood the appeal but I just came up with a theory:

I think it might be a fetish. Kind of like those people that like to be humiliated and/or punished. Is it the punishment and scorn that excites you?

That being said, you definitely deserve all the bans you collect like trophies.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Update: Linkerbaan has now been permabanned from his home instance. I think the content of this post and his extensive modlog history more than justifies their decision. While I am sympathetic with linkerbaans position that the US government is complicit in the genocide in Gaza, he frequently made baseless accusations against others, abused the reporting system, and was extremely hostile to other users. He was given many second chances, and I commend the LW team for being so patient with him in general, especially given the level of abuse they were subjected to by this user.

[–] Ghostalmedia 10 points 2 months ago (10 children)

I’m one of the mods there. We generally try to stay neutral unless someone posts blatant disinformation, or is not acting kind and is starting combative comment threads. You’ve done the latter a lot.

Moreover, our bias is to let the reports and downvotes guide us. The people in c/videos have been complaining to us about your behavior for quite a while now, and they‘ve not been appreciating the content and comments you’ve been contributing.

We’re a community of people. If you can’t participate constructively in that community, please find another community or create your own community. Lemmy is a federated system - you have options.

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[–] JonsJava 7 points 2 months ago

YDI

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