kittenzrulz claims that the takeover of this community was entirely over links getting burned out. this post would appear to contradict that.
furthermore, they completely disregarded my points in the questions i asked, particularly around the ideological motive around the changes they made when giving feedback, and failed to respond when i pushed them on the point, despite posting elsewhere.
i would argue that both the mod of this community, and the admin of the instance, are hostile to anarchist and leftist politics, and cannot be trusted. recommend finding a new instance.
Well, I can’t see Non Voters because it’s banned, but what I can see is that the modlog of Liberty Hub says they were unbanned from here 3 days ago. So if that community was created to attack this one, then it’s clearly been forgiven by Liberty Hub. And c/soulism didn’t have any personal attacks when I visited it. So where’s the division? Who exactly is still fighting this fight other than you and Ada? If Mindtraveller quit fighting Liberty Hub and Liberty Hub quit fighting Mindtraveller, what’s the problem? Why aren’t we all friends? I like Ada, I like kittenzrulz, I like Mindtraveller. It seems like kittenzrulz likes Mindtraveller and I haven’t seen any evidence that Mindtraveller doesn’t like kittenzrulz. They’re saying in this thread that they’re working together. So it seems like all of us are getting along. Who’s still fighting? Ada, apparently, and I don’t know why.
I didn’t like this community either when LOC misgendered Me. But LOC apologised, I forgave them, and this community even had a change in leadership and resolved not to ban people so often. Now I like this community. Mindtraveller and kittenzrulz are getting along now too. There was a problem, it got fixed, now everyone’s friends. Right?
I wish things were that simple, right now this community is tearing itself from within. Nothing I do, nor how much I apologize appears to appease many of these people.
A lot of the regulars here want you to keep on banning and insulting anyone they disagree with. They want fights and they want a divided community. That’s what they’ve always wanted. And LOC banned anyone who didn’t want that, so now most of your regulars are the people who do. You’ve got a community made out of people who want trouble. If you don’t cause trouble for them by banning all dissenters, then they’ll make the trouble for you.
I think you should go back and do a mass unban of people who were banned for silly reasons. You should try to build community of people who want open and respectful discussion with other leftists, and hope over time those voices drown out the ones spoiling for a fight. I don’t think you’re going to be able to calm down a lot of these people except through the passage of time. They’re probably really distrustful because LOC was so distrustful. They’ll only believe you can do well as a moderator if they see it with their own eyes. They won’t believe anything you say if it’s just words.
Also, I’m curious. How did you leave things off with Mindtraveller? Were they causing any problems after the change in leadership? Was there any division between them and you?
Im not sure if I can, im dealing with enough issues already.
Don’t do that tbh, the people that were banned were mostly banned for being aggressive towards the viewpoints shared here. The community will only get MORE argumentative.