this post was submitted on 12 Jun 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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All posts should follow this basic structure:

  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

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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.

YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.


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I came up with a riddle and they claimed I was violating a rule. I argued that I was not and got permabanned. It was my first ever post there lol. I only posted there because there's not really a comparable Lemmy sub. Some mods are just so petty and stupid.

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[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 50 minutes ago

What's with all the recent posts of people moaning their arses off about some recent ban?

[–] tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"Which amazing online shop (that the pharma industry wants to hide from you!) offers the best prices for penis enlargement pills? That's right, it's this one right here!"

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago

I'm terrified of clicking that link...

(Spoiler: thanks for not traumatizing me.)

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That's the core question. Without the answer, this post is meaningless.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rule #2:

If your riddle cannot be appended with "What am I?", it probably doesn't belong here.

If your riddle is unsolvable without high familiarity with a specific knowledge area, it probably doesn't belong here either.

Try r/Puzzles, r/MathRiddles, or r/Trivia instead.

What was the riddle?

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

What was the riddle?

"Is the number of relative equilibria (central configurations) finite in the n-body problem of celestial mechanics, for any choice of positive real numbers m1, ..., mn as the masses?"

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Can't really make a ruling without context. At this point, all we know is that you say you posted a riddle and they say it wasn't.

[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Congratulations, now make your own community on Lemmy.

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

The Batman (2022)

[–] Mac@mander.xyz -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 23 hours ago

The intent was less-than-serious, but i hear you.

[–] onesixone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dont think shaming people for using corporate social media will make them more likely to drop corporate social media. But even if it works, do we really want people to use Lemmy because we shamed them and not because the actually really good reasons to use it?

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 23 hours ago

I'm not a recruiter.