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?
This whole drama started because blahaj admins were banning 196 users they didn’t agree with. It’s not right, but it’s not different on blahaj.
We should be able to tell trolls to fuck off, it shouldn’t be controversial. We should be able to ask for NSFW tags, without harrasing, and not get banned.
All admins and mods are the same. They’re humans who eventually do petty shit with petty power
I wish there was a 196 that Ada or Moss couldn’t touch But there will always be bad internet janitors. It will happen in onehundredninetysix too.
Neopronouns aren’t subject to a person’s behavior. People shouldn’t be misgendered even if they’re trolling. Those are two different things. It’s too much of a slippery slope to think that “this person is trolling, so they don’t deserve their pronouns”.
Summary of what I read on the topic.
I don’t repsect trolls, i don’t respect their attack helicopter identities, i don’t want to contribute to a space that cares more about trolls than trans people.
This is what the admins communicated with the rule change and the mass banning of dissent
How is that relevant? Also what exactly are you trying to say here?
Replying to explain what that user is trying to depict as Ada’s power tripping to potential readers.
It looks like you’re making a statement though and it’s getting reported for transphobia.
I’ll rephrase
Edit: done, let me know if it’s not clear enough.
Yes much better now. Thanks mate.
No worries, rereading it I got why people might interpret it both ways
Ye, I had to do a double-take myself :)
This kind of stuff is precisely why I always urge charitability from people. Everyone can fuck up their phrasing, especially ND peeps and end up sometimes sounding completely opposite.
The people who have been getting banned by @[email protected] are instance banned for transphobia or apologia. This is something you shouldn’t leave out or ignore. When a person is banned from an instance they are automatically banned from any communities they have participated in there.
She’s not power-tripping by banning them from the instance, most people banned from blahaj.zone deserve it, and aren’t safe around queer people. Something that is kind of a requirement to participate in communities that are meant to be queer safe spaces.
What about all the people who were banned for not agreeing with the rule changes?
Don’t you think it’s disingenuous to pretend that was transphobia? Isn’t THIS something you should not leave out or ignore?
Power tripping and then pretending like they’re all just bigots is cringe admin behavior, it’s immature, and it’s part of why people don’t want to be on blahaj
Blahaj is not a safe space for anyone, at least not more than anywhere else.
I haven’t banned a single person over 196 changes. I don’t moderate 196 and I haven’t banned anyone from 196 (except as a side effect of banning them from the whole instance).
I don’t know what you think happened, but community or instance banning folk for community specific events is not something I do.
You banned people for not agreeing with you, which caused the 196 exodus, because you banned a disproportionate amount of them, because that was the largest community to protest rules users didn’t agree to.
And yes, if you ban people from an instance then they can’t participate anymore, and when you do that for people saying that the respect trolls rule is stupid it’s overstepping your bounds as a janitor.
Banning people for dissent does not foster a safe community. It forms a little cult where you get to hold the power.
Edit: [email protected] banned me for this post
Thank you for proving my point.
These mods ban all dissent and do not allow anyone to critique their shitty policies. Even if you don’t post in their community.
Largest?
196 has always been the biggest community on blahaj
The first one is the one that agreed with Ada and disagreed with the mods. 6k weekly active users.
The two others are the one managed by the power tripping mods who disagreed with Ada. Almost half the activity.
And the other two didn’t exist until a couple months ago.
The original 196 has more visitors because it has existed for years.
But if you want to play the numbers game then your numbers imply the original 196 lost more than a third of its users from the drama.
I think @[email protected] moreso banned you because you are spitting hate throughout this entire post, misrepresenting the truth, and in other cases actively lying. You might as well quit while you’re ahead before you get banned from db0 too. If you don’t get your lemmy.world account entirely banned.
Which rule changes, you have to be specific. If it was people pushing back against tighter rules against bigotry that falls under the umbrella of apologia.
Highlight an actual instance of power-tripping then we’ll talk. I’ve seen far too many people quick to whine and complain when they were banned for straight up transphobia, thinly veiled transphobia, or apologia.
The thriving trans and LGBTQ communities disagree with you, but sure keep believing that
I disagree with the rule changes that we have to be polite and respectable to people who idenitfy as dragonsexual, dogsexual, childsexual, and other identities that are obviously trolls trying to dimish the lived experiences of people who are trying to be erased.
Sorry you don’t agree with me that trolls equating gender identity to beastiality and pedophilia shouldn’t be respected or legitimized. But I don’t want to spend time in a space where I have to respect them by law.
People wouldn’t have had to police their own communities if the admins did their fucking jobs but the admins didn’t like others cleaning up even though it was necessary.
Sorry you think this is a funny gotcha
Ah so you are complaining about a rule that’s meant to protect trans people. Let us be clear honey, Neopronoun users are trans, and discrimination towards them is transphobic.
Lemmy.blahaj.zone does not allow or condone bestiality or pedophilia, and it never has. This is an outright lie and it goes to show that you are absolutely without a doubt acting in bad faith right now.
You just openly admitted that your reasons were transphobic and made a disgusting false accusation towards @[email protected] of condoning or allowing bestiality and pedophilia on this instance. You literally just discredited yourself and your own argument 🤣
You come off as a troll tbh
Sorry you don’t moderate your own spaces well enough that people don’t feel safe.
Banning the ones who dissent doesn’t make you right.
Clearly you feel different, but that’s why 196 is on world now too
Edit: I have no issues with Neopronouns, the rule was created to stop community policing of trolls and instead enables trolls and even favors them over real users if they play victum well enough.
I have watched many lgbtq spaces rise and fall, the thing that kills them is these kind of lazy and broad moderation policies like in reddit communities that are easy to take advantage of.
You crying bigotry isn’t a defense of lazy and harmful policy.
I’m blocking you now because you feel like you have to win something and this isn’t productive.
I’m not the one who’s accusing an instance admin of allowing or condoning pedophillia because they’re salty they have to respect neopronoun users.
Bye don’t let the door hit you on the way out, troll.