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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

god you fuss about blahaj a lot

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

It would seem by Blahaj's defenders any amount of 'fussing' is a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

24 comments in the past 14 hours is a lot. that those 24 comments make up 92% of your total activity for that time period seems obsessive.

you sure talk a lot about something that seems to only upset you.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

24 comments in the past 14 hours is a lot. that those 24 comments make up 92% of your total activity for that time period seems obsessive.

"How dare you talk about something that happened in the same day that it happened?

Yes, I must be obsessive.

you sure talk a lot about something that seems to only upset you.

Yes, everyone else who's upset doesn't exist. Keep living in fantasy land.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

whatever babe lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's been a while since I played D&D, but isn't it a race? /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Oh no! You got banned from toxic echo chambers! Whatever will you do?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Love that blahaj is still supporting the anti-trans troll. Very wholesome of them to reduce an entire class of people to attack helicopters

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

the troll was banned long before OP was get your facts straight

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

...but not for their anti-trans trolling. Blahaj still explicitly supports attack helicoptors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

You can check the modlog. The ban reason is always included.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Blahaj has literally gone from "attack helicopter jokes are transphobic" to "not taking attack helicopter jokes seriously is transphobic". This is a genuinely distressing turn of events from one of the largest trans-friendly spaces on the internet.

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

It isn't that surprising to me that you received an instance ban for breaking an instance rule, even if it happened somewhere else. Users in blahaj can still see your activity, even if it's not taking place in their instance, and a rule that's meant to protect instance users like that one needs to apply everywhere that instance might be active. I don't think this is mod abuse at all.

I can't advocate enough that people have multiple user accounts for this purpose, though. The fediverse is so diverse, with so much variation in mod standards, that everyone will eventually experience this. Not as a way to evade a ban, but just as an acknowledgement that different communities don't play well with some other communities you might be a part of. That, on top of the fact that it's just good opsec to rotate user accounts anyway.

I don't think anyone is going to change your mind about the specific opinion that earned you the ban, though. You seem pretty locked-in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Instance banning isn't going to stop him from posting it elsewhere and blahaj users from seeing it elsewhere. It's a performative gesture that does absolutely nothing in context.

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

Instance banning isn’t going to stop him from posting it elsewhere and blahaj users from seeing it elsewhere.

No, but it will stop them from seeing it from that particular user in every instance, which is better than them still seeing that user air their grievance about it.

It's less performative than just about any other act of moderation on lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If that's actually how it works I'm going to get myself instance banned from the tankie triad immediately.

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

I'm sure they'd be happy to oblige

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

Oh we know they will >:}

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've never looked, but blahj feels like one of those Reddit communities where you can go and post in good faith but still get banned for some esoteric reason that only makes sense to the moderators and the 4 people who've made it their life's work to eliminate the behavior from all of society.

Like, I read a post from a guy who got banned for having the temerity to suggest that, perhaps, harassing literal children who were streaming Harry Potter on Twitch wasn't helping trans people and people should instead do something like donate to the Trevor Project. Reason for ban: transphobia

At some point you just have to recognize that some moderators are acting in bad faith and playing petty high school social games using moderator powers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I thought draconic was better than that tbh.

e: also I think instance banning people for things said off instance is a shit thing to do. Your rules don't apply elsehwhere. Stay in your lane, ada.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you watched a guy with an AK walking down the street and entering your neighbors' houses one by one, some bullet noises, then walking to the next house, I bet you would shoot him before he enters your property, if you had the opportunity.

Try staying in your lane in that situation. It's just being proactive.

Now I don't have any context on this guy past the title of the post, or what they mean by "repeated" gatekeeping, but just given the title of the post, them having the opinion that saying "dragonfucker is not a gender" is gatekeeping is laughable. So I'm hoping something else was going on for my own sanity, because this is sad.

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

That is quite an extreme example for something so mundane in reality.

I had to debate upoting lol

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

It was just the first example I thought of to make the point.

No actual humans were hurt in the making of this metaphor. ^_^

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Lol it's fine, just if you were trying to convince someone you'd have a hard time winning them over with such an extreme example.

I can see your heart is in the right place haha

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

Yes they were. I know what you did.

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