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!vegan@lemmy.world mod suppresses criticisms of fediverse spam campaign, using mass ban technique to silence opposing viewpoints (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca
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Will it be effective?

SpoilerNo, it was not very effective.

EDIT: The banning event continues. Please consult the modlog to observe.

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&modId=7121342

If you scroll down to about a day ago, you might be able to observe an emerging behavior from this mod.

EDIT 2: The mod in question moderates a total of 108 Lemmy communities. How deep does this conspiracy run? Is this mod a lost Redditor? More to come!

EDIT 3: The mod has now removed my comment all together, one might assume because it was still receiving upvotes in the 2 hours following my ban. Are there similarities here to Watergate? You be the judge!

EDIT 4: The mod in question has now been removed as a mod of the !vegan@lemmy.world community, as a result of their abuse of power.

https://lemmy.world/post/19731457

This was their response:

EDIT 5: This will be my final update, since as far as I see it, the issue this thread focuses on has been resolved. To quote Beaver herself in a very ironic comment she made directed towards someone else:

Clearly this was all just a case of...

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[–] [S] 15 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

I'll be one to admit my own comment was a bit cheeky. I had honestly never really noticed the !vegan@lemmy.world in my All feed until today, when this particular mod started posting a great deal of really poorly formatted memes. My cheeky comment was my only ever comment in the community.

I can't speak to any actual brigading, as the community normally isn't worth my time, which is very, very important to me.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Not just poorly formatted...they were full of insults.

    Theory: the posts are bait so Beaver can feel powerful banning people.

    I'm on a (admittedly slow), slide towards vegetarianism so I'm obviously pro-vegan....but apparently I got banned two days ago for rule 5

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