I tend to agree. If I were more aggressive, then it's easy to dismiss me as a troll, but I deliberately choose not to do that.

I'll be honest, I don't really recall, which probably is in part because it was likely such a lukewarm interaction in the first place.

I suspect it too, I frequently have to revise my comments to tone them down before posting (and even after) because I know confrontation just turns people off of productive discussion, but I think this causes cognitive dissonance in some rather extreme reactionaries. Few people mildly dislike me, it seems either varying degrees of neutrality or positive views, or otherwise extreme hatred. Just what I've noticed.

Honestly it's probably the amount of text. A few of the people who got banned are dyed in the wool multi-paragraph to full book of text posters. Cowbee and Staments being the absolute gods of this.

I bet that list is just a stack ranked list of numbers of words in threads they didn't like, and Rimu just banned line the top 50.

Less than I used to, actually.

This is just like the time Rimu sent me all those unsolicited butthole pics 😔

Edit: /s

Yeah, for best chances though you'll have to make your own threads, since he banned dbzer0 and a lot of people talking shit about him.

I think this is accurate, and I believe based on the evidence Rimu is sharing it with other instance admins to try to push a universal ban list.

It's sounding like Rimu turned his personal block list into an instance ban.

I've got no other explanation for why he's banning users that he has already defederated from. The only way he could be coralling that list is if he's looking at stuff from another instance and attempting to control the narrative for other admins.