I immediately block any community built on slop. I would be elated if they did the work for me.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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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).
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- 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.
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- Keep the comments in YPTB posts about the moderation action itself, not about the general topic in which the moderation took place.
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.
YPTB 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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If only people would follow your example instead of bullying and harassing our mods.
I have also been banned from some stupid communities because of mods who just ban users from everything they mod. Being banned removes the ability to block the community, but doesn't hide it from All.
Have you tried blocking them manually from Settings> Blocks?
Upvotes and downvotes aren't a "I like/dislike this" button, they're meant to highlight comments that are contributing positively and constructively to the discussion, showcase insightful comments, or to filter out irrelevant content.
YDI for misusing the buttons.
YDI
The entitlement is running strong in those anti-GenAI evangelists, thinking they can just wander into someones home turf and behave like shit, and then complain if there are consequences. YDI
To be fair, the typical defenses of that technology are the most maddeningly empty headed shit I've ever read, including conversations with real life fascists and work with people deep into senility.
Listening to enough of them has genuinely given me a substantial vein of anti human 'most of this is just unrefrigerated meat, there is no spark of intellect, no consviousness, no beauty to be found here' type thought.
I wouldn't go into '/stable diffusion fruit' to throw a fit about it, but my first instinct when someone says that tech is good is just straight up assuming, whether its on silicon or meat; the thing im talking to is not a person in any way that matters to me.
Im occasionally wrong, and have to adjust course, but it has become an unsettling oft confirmed default which i very much resent.
I just really want to emphasize here:
this technology is often defended with a stupidity so profound and so stubborn that it has broken the last shreds of my love for humanity, a love for humanity that survived being thrown away onto the street like trash as a child, no small amount of rape abuse life unhoused and tending to those who had suffered so much worse than I. In its place that stupidity has awakened a creeping suspicion that there never was such a thing as 'humanity', and I'm utterly alone in a howling void.
I might be able to give you another perspective.
This technology is the first time that humankind has ever been able to create an interactive snapshot of human culture. Everything thats been written, scanned, drawn has made their mark on those models, and it gives you glimpses in what else there might be in the human cultural space. It's not intelligence, but it's distilled human culture.
I am very critical about the fact that this technology is mainly in the hands of corporations that want to use it as a cost cutting tool. I am also not a fan that GenAI is pushed into everything just to get sweet investor money. I am far less alarmed about the productivity increases themselves, or about copyrights which are normally only wielded as a weapon by the rich.
The power consumption argument doesn't even apply here - the generation of those images does not cost more energy than playing a computer game for 2 minutes, is often done on consumer grade hardware (like the one running here now while i type this), and the training of the models is not necessarily very power hungry if done smart (deepseek used a fraction of the power that GPT4o needed). Also, with the massive expansion of solar power generation (we're at the point where the price starts becoming negative at peak solar output) the power itself starts becoming a non-factor.
Copyrights themselves are a clusterfuck, which is an statement that many artists would agree with. I personally wish for the following (copied from the vote-thread regarding the rule we're discussing):
I would make a case for creation of datasets by a international institution like the UNESCO. The used data would be representative for world culture, and creation of the datasets would have to be sponsored by whoever wants to create models out of it, so that licencing fees can be paid to creators. If you wanted to make your mark on global culture, you would have an incentive to offer training data to UNESCO.
I hope i could give you a bit hope in humanity back - there are still idealistic people out there.
YDI. !fuck_ai@lemmy.world is cringe. Let people enjoy things
mm yes under 1 day old account
we all gotta start somewhere
still suspicious
you're from an instance with an admin who panders to transphobes. that's way more suspicious.
Blahaj.zone, a reference to Blåhaj, the transgender community official mascot, is a place where a transphobic admin hides out?
Ada has done more to harm the trans community on Lemmy than anyone else. She’s a disgrace, a shitty admin, and an enabler of transphobic harassment who has protected people who repeatedly told trans women that they should kill themselves.
So yeah, you fucking read me right.
Blahaj panders to transphobes‽
Sounds like they got banned for gatekeeping, from what I can tell @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone is very hostile towards any forms of transphobia (including gatekeeping and apologia), and rightfully so. Those things hurt the trans community and the people in it.
Broke the rules, got punished for it. YDI.
Seems fair enough to me. Why would a mod of a genAI community want people with a history of being anti-genAI in their community causing problems? And why would you even want to go visit that community in the first place, unless you wanted to cause problems. Imo this is a win-win situation. YDI.
You think it's good for mods to ban anyone and everyone who downvotes to create an echo chamber where only those who fully support them are left?
It's an art sharing community, not a debate forum.
So you do think people should be banned for not liking something and voting their opinion?
When it starts to become disruptive to the running of the community, and the enjoyment of the community users, then it's entirely justified imo.
Downvoting posts because you specifically dislike them isn't disruptive. I never went and downvoted the whole community, and no one else did. This grand conspiracy of brigading is just that, a conspiracy. People just hate AI slop. Deal with it.
Must be nice to know everything.
If you pay attention to most normal people, they actually are infatuated with gen AI slop and it's sort of cringe, I work at a large company and half of the people's profile pictures on our communication application are gpt ghibleified images of themselves. Hating image generation is fairly common in these online circles, but overall the average population seems to like it.
Personally I would never refer to image generation as art, but image generation in itself is honestly a super cool and fascinating technology.
Clearly the mod did deal with it, just not in the way you expected 😁
I think different communities can be run in different ways. And yes in some comms you'll be banned for "voting your opinion"
It's still PTB, you always think about whether or not you could but you don't think about whether you should.
I mean, sure whatever. You're entitled to your opinion. But I'll take the opportunity to say that you going back to the other thread and bellyaching multiple times that I wasn't sufficiently respectful to you is hilarious. But otherwise, no your recent dozen comments on a 2 day old thread trying to ignite a flamewar isn't trolling for drama noooo.
Roses are Red, Violets are Blue
The mod's PTB and so are you 😁
YDM, troll.
Aww bless, YDI.
~~PTB. If OOP went to that sub and started mass downvoting it would be one thing, but it looks like they were banned for actions on a completely different sub? That's pretty unhinged, broski.~~
Judgement redacted due to special circumstances.
ThIs is the sort of abuse the mod is getting, simply for moderating a genAI community. And it's not the first time. That's why there's a zero tolerance policy in those communities.
Hey @TheDude@sh.itjust.works @imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works @kersploosh@sh.itjust.works @InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works would you be able to investigate this user and potentially permaban them for transphobia, trolling and impersonation of another instance's moderator?
The MysticMushroom impersonation account has been permabanned. I just re-banned with content removal to clean up some of the comments that were still up.
Thank you!
I downvoted an AI post once and a mod banned me from multiple AI subs for being involved in "Vote manipulation".
So was I, and I wasn't even aware of it until I saw the original post in !fuck_ai@lemmy.world and decided to check myself. That idiot banned me too. They ban everyone who downvotes their posts and I don't even remember what I downvoted or if I just made a comment about AI. Those mods are unhinged.
I banned you and I banned that dipshit who posted on Fuck_AI and I have no regrets. You are awful people and your behavior is harmful to this community. YDM. If lemmy.dbzer0.com wasn't as lenient as it is you'd have instance bans from here as well.
Can you unban me from your AI slop communities and apparently Europe ?? so I can Block the communities so they don't show up in the All feed? Apparently that option goes away with a Ban so I still have to see your slop and a community I can no longer participate in.
I promise not to 'systemically downvote' those communities first, whatever the fuck that means.
You can absolutely block communities when you are banned from them, this is one of the most sad and pathetic excuses to be unbanned I've ever heard, request denied.