Oh yeah, that's fucked up. The kind of people who make that big of a deal out of it, enough to send threats, are reinforcing his reasoning. It sucks that he's stuck inside the meat grinder now, but he did throw himself in.

It reads like no one gave them a chance to open a dialogue on a post where they shut down the dialogue.

If he wanted to be a mod, then he should have done mod shit. You can't make a neutral product as a developer and then code it like a mod. The fact that he doesn't see the problem is the problem.

I don't care that he made a ban list. I don't care that I'm on it. I care that he sold a window into the community for others without telling the people using that window that he erased huge chunks of the community at large. Regardless of his opinions, that is what he did.

To do what? Gentrify Lemmy? You can't come into Tortuga and try to sell it as a resort by putting a tarp over the pirates mate.

I wanna make snide remarks but I'm convinced this is a mental health thing now.