All from in this thread in [email protected] about a chant at a British music festival where an artist said "death, death to the IDF".
After other users were quoting that chant in the comments and had comments removed and banned, the hero of our story, @[email protected] (appearing as "acargitz") pointed out that under international law, fighting an occupying force is legitimate. But apparently not under world news rules, as their removed comments and the many explanations from mods make clear in the thread.
Equally against the rules is the call for the eradication of an organisation or business, even without an explicit call to violence against individual members of the business.
In the same thread: user @[email protected] had comments removed for being anti-American "(again)", though I couldn't see the first time. It's not even clear to me how the removed comments were anti-American.
Bonus points for the "DC Comics" removal reason. Though this seems to be incompetence, rather than malice.
When your feelings are "I don't care about your rules" then, yes, fuck your feelings. It's not my job to pat your hand and go "Awww, it will be OK."
This is about 'why are you still in this thread, sorru, didn't notice during initial response.
Yeah, getting a lot of replies in this thread. Hard to keep them all straight when my inbox says (21).
But yeah, as for why I'm participating here... That's a longer story.
I was on reddit 15 years before it imploded and the #1 thing that chapped my ass were moderators who would do shit with no explanation.
Thread locked. Thread removed. Users banned. They literally felt (feel?) that they didn't owe anyone an explanation. I resolved to do better, and the way I go about it is with transparency. I LOVE that lemmy moderation logs are public.
If I remove a post or a comment, you will be damn sure you know why I removed it. When a user gets banned, it should be clear to all involved why it happened.
PTB, for the most part, are the whiny little bitches who cannot stand that someone else dared to tell them "No."
There are legitimate abuses of power, look at, well, almost anything .ml gets away with. If they were anyone other than the founding lemmy instance, they would have been defederated AGES ago.
But they still host valuable communities, so nobody wants to treat them the way we treated hexbear. I get it.
The DOWNSIDE is that by being more public facing than other mods, that makes me a target for harrassment.
Did you know, I have a personal troll who creates accounts specifically to attack me? They are hilariously bad at it and get instance banned within minutes, and they never seem to learn from their mistakes. Someday they'll discover sex or something and will stop... someday.