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For the record I was posting in support of inclusive language, but pointing out that context and convention matter.
They seem to have even scrubbed my comment from their instance, lol.
I'm just glad I'm not the only one who views dude as androgynous.
I thought I was one of the few.
I was banned from a community called, "Pleasant Politics," that I had never heard of or interacted with, but honestly, as a preemptive move, fair enough.
Oh that place is an interesting idea but poor execution.
Last I knew they would ban you if you got banned from any of the news comms or had too many controversial comments. Which just boiled down to downvotes
Hmm, well, I wasn't banned from anything before that, and none of my comments had been highly downvoted. I had gotten in a few people's faces over genocide denial, though. I assumed it was because of that.
Funny enough, I just double-checked, and it looks like I've recently been banned from a bunch of Dubvee communities, too. I've never heard of this instance before, but based on this post, I'm guessing they didn't like my thoughts on United Healthcare. Again, I wasn't even aware of Dubvee until now, so I can't say it feels like much of a loss.
I remember the creator of the bot that does the bans insisted until he was blue in the fact that it doesn't ban based on downvotes while spewing a lot f technobabble that ultimately ammounted to banning for downvotes. So yeah, he's trying to bring back one of the worse features of Reddit, that being an ass kissing requirement, that's what karma requirements are, they are an ass kissing requirement, because the way you get karma points is by kissing ass, the way you lose them is by sharing new or different ideas. See the issue with them? The system punishes people for having ideas that other people don't like, not that are wrong or evil, but that other people simply don't like. That's not even mentioning people who cheat the system by doing vote manipulation to their own comments or to other comments.
I understand the reddit karma requirements, having seen too many small subs get swarmed by x day old but no or only negative karama but yeah that creator didn't seem to want anything polite, just acceptable to status quo thinking
until he was blue in the fact
This phrase is genius.
I don't even like IKEA.
So much for "inclusivity"
The key is that you said "but..." which in some communities fails the test of absolute 100% agreement and makes you The Enemy. I had a very similar experience there, in my case it was saying someone who is "uncomfortable" with gender issues might not actually "hate" anybody, they could just be having trouble overcoming how they were raised. But in the end it's like if a TV channel stops but you get thousands of other channels, so oh well .
