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[email protected] mod suppresses criticisms of fediverse spam campaign, using mass ban technique to silence opposing viewpoints (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Will it be effective?

Spoiler

No, 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 [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 82 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

Mods 108 communities?

What we have here, sir and/or madam, is a Reddit mod. Excessive modding, a smell you can't quite place, same techniques.

Gotta say: I was hoping we wouldn't be followed by that type.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago

Pretty sure the Reddit mods were the biggest group of complainers against Reddits API changes, since they used third party apps in order to mod.

So it stands to reason a ginormous group of them switched to Lemmy and had plenty of free time to mod there as well.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (49 children)

Oh boy, it looks like they're posting the "you should feed your obligate carnivorous pets a fully vegan diet" garbage again.

Edit:

Trying to paint your special diet group as a minority group is kinda fucking offensive. People get murdered, raped, beaten, abused, fired, divorced, jailed, tortured, sent to re-education camps, and so on, for being black, or LGBT, or Hispanic, or Muslim, or whatever. Vegans though? No. Unlike the other examples, vegans don't get murdered for something you were born with; they don't have entire continents who want to murder them. They just get ridiculed, and tbh, nowadays most of the ridicule is due to their garbage attitudes and nothing to do with the diet itself.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah vegans should not consider themselves as a minority.

The ANIMALS are the minority group. Not YOU. The entitlement speaks to an ego trip and is a vicious representation of the cause.

They should have their platform removed because they are hurting the image of the vegan movement

This is coming from a vegan btw

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The ANIMALS are the minority group. Not YOU.

relevant xkcd

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

PSA, stop trying to use the Reddit syntax of /c/vegan, it's [email protected]. The exclamation mark is what makes it a link. Also please always include the instance the community is hosted on or it will link to different places for different users.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

At this point we should turn Rule 5 into it's own joke. Bad vibes? Rule 5. I don't like you? Rule 5. I'm having a bad day? Rule 5. The great servers need a sacrifice? Rule 5. Bitching about Rule 5? Believe it or not, Rule 5.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Rule 5

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Where's his brother? I could have sworn there were two angry beavers....

Edit: NM totally missed the mod in question's name.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've been banned for breaking rule 5, which is weird since I've never posted in their community.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Have you had impure thoughts about breaking rule 5?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago

No, but you can bet your bottom dollar I will when I go to bed tonight.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

It's "vegans" like this that make the entire movement look bad. They need to be removed as a mod. The movement needs to be honest by letting free and equal exchange of ideas and viewpoints

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I got banned for saying I didn't think the meme was funny.

I legitimately do not care about that, but I do care deeply about how funny Beaver's tantrum is, so I hope she keeps it up.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's funny that she thinks she's accomplishing anything here but all that's happening is that she's eroding her own credibility, especially with those angry memes targeting people who aren't Vegans and her beef with the Lemmy.world admins.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

She's eroding the credibility of the community she champions as well.

This isn't the first time a very loud minority ruined things for the rest of their collective.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Weird that criticism of Spam wouldn't be acceptable in a vegan community!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Incidentally, vegan Spam does exist both in the official Spam brand and in another brand called unMeat. As someone who really doesn't like Spam, though, I'm unqualified to judge it.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago (12 children)

meatsplained lmao

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago

Now I'm wondering if all the other drama surrounding her was actually her fault...

Good job assassinating your own character, I guess, Beavs.

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