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.
Imagine going out of your way to mod based on shit posted else where.
I have been saying this… We have too much modding for no fucking reason.
We literally got 50k AMU, and half the modding is based on vibes, I don’t like the tone or content of the comments
As if there is not enough real modding to go around lol
I have been saying this… We have too much modding for no fucking reason.
This should open up an opportunity for people who don’t support mod abuse to create communities that don’t enable it.
I am unfit for positions of authority but point taken
The mod to user ratio in some of the communities is way out of whack. Just start with one mod who does nothing except manage spam and actual harmful content posted explicitly to be harmful. If the community ever grows so much that more mods are required, add only as needed and not more. And do the absolute minimum to make the community a good place to be, so it has a chance to grow and flourish.
What I’m saying is mod in moderation.
Wouldn’t be a leftist platform if they didn’t spend the majority of their time and effort self policing based on their purity tests instead of doing something actually productive
Yeah. Saying anything that isn’t overwhelmingly supportive of transpeople is just asking to be mod abused.
Unfortunate world we live in, but thanks for fighting back.
Blahaj mods (especially the one modding ghazi, transgender and 196) are the worst kind of mods. They promote blatant misinformation, remove posts calling said misinformation out, and they ban people and label them transphobes despite there being no transphobic words or implications whatsoever in your comments.
Just block the entire instance and move on. There are better instances that better represent the lgbt community.
Source: my ban message is the same as yours, and I have never said or implied anything remotely transphobic.
What I hate about blocking instances is that I no longer seem to get inbox notifications when a member of the instance comments on something in response to me, outside of that instance.
Like, my beef isn’t with blahaj users, and I don’t want to unintentionally ignore them because their admin/s are nutballs.
Unless it’s hexbear in which case the users are also nuts
I’m just glad I’m not the only one who views dude as androgynous.
I thought I was one of the few.
Dude and cunt applies to all genders.
Duuuuude
Wow, somebody that day was salty, and pretty much just looking for a comment to get mad about.
There’s another FOSS project idea: a bot that detects Lemmy bans and sends you a notification about it.
Another idea, take the mod log and allow voting on mod actions in a way that makes unpopular ones more visible. Give the users tools to evaluate moderators and admins to speed up the process of removing bad mods or users discovering they shouldn’t bother with an instance with bad admins. Or, with a different sorting method, it could highlight mods that aren’t power tripping losers.
Maybe a similar system for reporting, since it wouldn’t surprise me if some mods feel like they need to act because of pressure from losers who power trip with the report button. You know, the kind that feels the need to inform people they’ve been reported.
How come only assholes have issues with these communities?
I don’t have an issue with the members of the blahaj community, which is why this is unfortunate.
You seem like you do by telling them to “get over it” when they ask you not to refer to them in a certain way.
No person can predict, much less accommodate every positive or negative perception of a word. At what point do you simply tell people to “get over it” when they are taking a meaning from something you are unaware of, and do not care about? This guy got banned over the word “dude” and it makes the entire community look overly sensitive. Trans people are just people, like the rest of us, and we all have to deal with so much every single day.
For every single trans person who is offended by calling them “dude”, another would be offended that you’d treat them differently by not calling them “dude”. This is approaching the same type ridiculousness as people getting angry over “happy holidays” instead of “merry christmas” tbh.
You don’t have to predict any kind of positive or negative perception of a word. If you misgender me, I’ll tell you “please don’t” to which, if you’re not an asshole, you’ll reply “ok”. Replying “Actually, that’s a neutral word, so just get over it, mmkay?” is asshole behaviour and that is why he got banned.
Get off your high horse. The whole thread is about how the guy got shadow banned after not even directly calling anybody anything to their face. Nobody asked him to stop, and I’m sure he would have if someone had asked them to, same for me. But if were having a casual conversation and you get annoyed by the word “dude”, then I’m probably just going to end up wondering what the hell your problem is because I use “dude” casually all the time.
Nobody banned him because he said “dude”. You’re only trying to pretend that because you refuse to admit you’re wrong. They banned him because he said people who consider the word “dude” to be a gendered term need to “get over it”. This is not hard to understand.
He specifically said in another comment that he would stop if asked. If Lemmy users were punished and held responsible for all these random off-comments taken out of context, half of the user base would be in prison right now, and the other half would be on a watch list for some of the shit I’ve seen people say. Stop choosing to be outraged for the fun of it.
From the Book of the Dude, the holy book of the Dudeism religion:
Incidentally, the term “dude” is commonly agreed to refer to all genders. Most linguists contend that the diminutive “dudette” is not in keeping with the parlance of our times.
So what you’re saying is that ban is religious discrimination?
hey, thanks for showing me that i should block you and this community!
Cry harder
As a SoCal boi dude is not about gender. It’s a vibe
I got banned from lemmy.world/c/linuxsucks, which is one person’s mental illness, so who cares? Doesn’t stop me from calling them an idiot when they show up elsewhere.
Linux is the expression of the collective mental illness of thousands of mentally ill computer hobbyists.
Just because I am mentally ill mean doesn’t mean I use Linux. I mean I do use it, but not because I’m mentally ill.
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.
Apparently I’ve been banned and unbanned multiple times from that comm. Absolutely no idea even after reading their experiments faq.
Even their examples of bad comments were like 3 downvotes vs 8 up
From the linked description:
More accurately, the Lemmy community is surprisingly tolerant of a wide range of opinions
No, no they aren’t. Communities have general set of opinions and they will often downvote you having the wrong one even if its as trivial as preferring the “wrong” team in a sporting event.
Q: Why doesn’t the bot notify for bans?
There are a few users who get banned or unbanned very day, as the pattern of user comments and votes changes over time. It’s important that bans be “lightweight,” and always reversible for anyone who is banned.
If I was randomly unbanned without being actually transgressive and I never knew when I could post I would very very shortly stop engaging with a community.
Q: Won’t people learn to fake upvotes for themselves and trick the bot?
It’s worse most comments most places will have near zero engagement. Threads are full of stuff only a few people upvoted it would be easy to use this system to harass and silence people. Hell People look at karma as the communities judgement and are actually more likely to downvote less likely to upvote if an innocuous comment is shortly reduced to -1
Is there a lemmy instance that isn’t basically trash?
Wow. That is about the tamest comment that’s ever gotten someone banned.
I’ve seen worse for just for putting criticism in threads asking for user’s “questions, concerns, requests and issues”. And at the admin level, in a major instance where they never really apologized or corrected themselves until a couple of months later without really assuming any blame.
I was once told my choice of defaulting to referring to people as they/them is offensive to nonbinary people. I don’t necessarily know your pronouns at that particular instance of time when speaking, and being offensive is not my intention, but it seems to happen anyway.
Which is why I call they/them the equal oppurtunity offender. It doesn’t discriminate in its neutralness.
Wait until they hear what non-binary sounds like in Spanish, a language that genders every noun as either male or female.
At least from one Non Binary, I default they/them and have no idea why I personally would find it offensive.
