I don’t troll. At all. What I do is post various comments encouraging a community to not get angry as hell about a change but to make the best out of it. That’s what happened when 196 decided to port over from blahaj.zone to lemmy.world. I made a bunch of fairly long comments that were talking about how people shouldn’t be angry and just leaving toxic comments but fueling a better community, whether that be here or elsewhere. Comments went fairly well and all was fine and left up for a while but a couple of days after being posted they were removed along with everything else that I had posted to that community. The mods list the reason in the modlog for my permanent ban as “trolling”. There are many things I do, but trolling isn’t one of them. Especially when the comment sections are left in a state here showing that I wasn’t trolling.

I went through everything that I did with that community and cannot find a singular thing with the exception of a memory.

I had posted a meme a couple of weeks ago. I don’t remember exactly what it was but I remember a moderator saying on it an hour or two after posting that it should be marked as NSFW. I disagreed with this assessment. I left a comment in response saying that I disagreed that it should be marked and that I would refuse to mark it as NSFW. However, I also respect that it is their community and their rules so I settled for something different. I didn’t add an NSFW tag, I just deleted it wholesale. I didn’t want to add a tag to something that I didn’t feel was applicable and instead of having to sit with that tag on the post, I just deleted the post entirely.

So this only leaves two options from the mods of 196.

Either they banned me for posting comments that were supportive of the community itself and not directly supportive of them or they banned me for deleting a post.

In either case? The moderators of [email protected] are no better than reddit moderators who just lash out for their own ego. Blanket bans for disagreements.

And perhaps unsurprisingly and perfectly fitting of every single accusation that has been levied so far against them and their abusive practices, the last moderator to interact with me was @[email protected].

I find it fucking hysterical how the mods over there are so vehemently Anti-Trump (and should be given the userbase and content) but act no better than someone in his administration.

Edit: I found the post about it being NSFW after going through Moss’ profile but unsurprisingly Moss had to go ahead and suppress my comment there as well. It’s remarkable how much of their profile is just whining about being treated unfairly while they’re going ahead and treating people unfairly. But of course, Moss (being a redditor) had to go ahead and downvote before the removal of the post. Fragile… jesus.

As for how I feel it should be remedied, Moss should step down or at least be removed as a mod on Lemmy.world. They’ve done nothing for the community that hasn’t been insanely divisive as of late. They seem to be remarkably tonedeaf and just openly abusing their position.

Update

@[email protected] went to the community and straight up asked why I was banned. For the record I didn’t ask for this or anything and was completely blindsided when I got a notification in my inbox. But a mod over there did respond with this:

So I’m unbanned from the community because a mod could find no reason that made sense why I was banned.

Tell me how that doesn’t unilaterally prove that Moss was indeed just banning people over petty ass reasons?

  • StametsOP
    13•1 day ago

    Definitely not. IIRC we disagreed on a few things, agreed on others, it was respectful.

    That is how I took it as well. I disagreed on a couple of points, felt marred by one and we both addressed that and moved on like adults. So if those comments were what constituted the trolling ban then it wasn’t my behavior but my content. Content that was just supportive of a community doing what it felt best, whether that was staying there or moving elsewhere. Sus.

    If that’s the case, good to see how well the community managed to move.

    Yeah it was sorely needed. I do not interact with mods often, surprisingly. You’d think maybe I would with how much I used to post and have been starting to again lately (Gotta get on today) but honestly it is pretty rare. I talk way more with admins (of mulitple instances) than I talk with moderators. I mean I’m friends with some mods here but they’re of communities I don’t interact with. The few times I do engage with a moderator have been pretty respectful overall. A polite request and either I disagree and delete the post instead (that has happened numerous times in the past with no issue) or do what they ask because it makes total sense. The fact that my only interaction with /c/196 mods has been them acting petty and underselling their own community?

    Not a good look.

    I’ve been posting to [email protected] for weeks and so far haven’t bumped into a mod. Maybe in comments or something but not that I’m aware of. That’s generally how you know the community is well moderated. You never see them doing anything other than engaging with the community. Like we’ve got NegativeNull over on TenForward who is fuckin awesome for that. I mean so is everyone else but I wanted to give a shout out to my Nully boy.

    • @[email protected]
      18•1 day ago

      Definitely not. IIRC we disagreed on a few things, agreed on others, it was respectful.

      That is how I took it as well. I disagreed on a couple of points, felt marred by one and we both addressed that and moved on like adults.

      In my experience, almost everyone on the internet behaves this way. There’s a reputation that internet people are toxic, angry, unreasonable, and insulting, and there need to be strict controls or the whole thing will turn into a shit show. But my observation is that even if you look at one of those big shit-show threads, it will be a tiny minority of the people that are creating all the personal insults and drama. I think the key factor is that one unhinged person can amp a bunch of other people up, and the unhinged people also tend to be very persistent in starting drama with anyone who will interact with them, and so their influence is outsized.

      But check it out sometime: Look at one of those angerfest threads, and I bet it will be less than 3 people who are instigating all of the anger. Of course, there will be other people who get roped into it, but it’s usually pretty easy to identify the source, and once you see that, it’ll become clear that almost everyone when they’re talking amongst each other is perfectly reasonable, whether or not they agree about the stuff they’re talking about.