Yeah I saw you guys arguing in the other post. Regardless of who was in the wrong in that argument, threatening mod action on someone you disagree with is such a Reddit move - I’m pretty sure a lot of people came here to escape that kind of bullshit power trip.
Why are the juicy drama threads always deleted by the time I see references to them?
I didn’t see it, but I agree. The job of a mod is to enforce the rules of the community. Rules should be well thought out and boundaries distinct. For instance, no porn. Any rules without well defined boundaries are difficult to enforce and lead to power trips. Ideally, nebulous rules would require mod consensus, if these types of rules must exist to begin with.
E: lawl, looks like the mods read this
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That’s a different user from op right? Idk how that’s relevant to this post, what am I missing?
It was a reply to this person but their comment was removed.
I hate when that happens, thanks for the explanation lol
This might not be super popular, but here goes nothing:
Not all opinions are equal. Just because time and space is given equally to different views doesn’t mean one isn’t right over the other. I encourage you to read and listen to people on both sides of a conflict or topic. Look up what they are talking about on a website or source that is impartial (Conservative media is not the best option for fact finding, but neither are ‘tankie’ style sources. Think research papers, news outlets outside of the area where the topic is most prevalent).
If a narrative or piece of media is using terminology to make one side seem completely evil or bad, chances are it may not be the most unbiased source. Terms like fascist, communist, nazi, terrorist, antifa, woke, BLM, etc. are used a lot as buzzwords to dehumanize and incite people to one side or the other (not always true, but good to look closer at the information presented). If a story makes it so you are the hero by denouncing something, disliking an idea/peple/person/belief, be cautious, chances are it is an emotional ploy to get you to side one way or the other despite factual evidence.
At the end of the day, it is up to each of us to act responsibly with what we put out into the world based on our opinions and understanding. Every single person involved in things like the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is a human being and is going through something much more complicated than most of us will ever have to experience personally. Treat people like people, show respect when due, and be sensitive to the chaos and pain someone might be living through. We need less hate in the world, not more.
I say all this to say, your ideas are currently full of animosity and hate. They are not valid and should rightly be removed from the discussion until you can communicate them more effectively and less emotionally. Intolerance cannot be tolerated if we want to have a better world for each and every one of us.
This is why we should start moving the main communities like memes and world news off instances like lemmy.ml
As a discord admin\mod, I feel like they have way more power than they need.
I obviously can’t access the post, but I read some of your comments, and I really wish I could. In your comments you make reasonable points, so I feel like your post probably runs in the same vein.
FTR I don’t think you’re a homophobe.
Thanks, that means a lot to me. I could have posted the whole comment chain, but am tired to discuss this. Also I didn’t want to point fingers. If OP decided to delete the post they had their reasons, one might be probably the same reasons as I mentioned. But what really stuck was their reddit mod mentality. Again, I don’t want to point fingers but generally point to this kind of bad mod behaviour nobody wants here.
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IF you think you are supposed to form an opinion than it would be about power tripping mods.
But if you want to discuss the deleted post, it’s up to them to bring the post back first.
