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.

Rules

Post only about bans or other sanctions from mod(s).
Provide the cause of the sanction (e.g. the text of the comment).
Provide the reason given by the mods for the sanction.
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.

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.

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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LemmyWorld/PoliticalVideos mod makes clear no criticism of Democrats committing Genocide is allowed. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Linkerbaan@lemmy.world to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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https://lemmy.world/post/20702616

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[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.