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If you don't want EVERYONE to participate in your community, then you should really make it private. (self.unpopularopinion)

submitted 2 months ago by MrJameGumb to c/unpopularopinion

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I just got permanently banned from a community for making a single harmless remark on a single post that was right there in the main feed. It's not a community I'm super active in so it's not like devastating, but it is annoying

If your precious little community is full of so many delicate sensitive people who can't even be reminded that another viewpoint even exists, then you should really protect them by defederating and having everyone join your private website

The mod has literally removed like 75% of the comments and banned everyone lol

I don't know about anyone else, but I don't have time to read every rule for every community that pops up when I'm in view all

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[–] MrJameGumb 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate that, but I already blocked the mod and the community. There's no point in even trying to deal with someone like that for a community I'm not super active in. I honestly can't imagine that even vegan people will want to stay there much longer if it's gotten this bad

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

Isn't blocking them essentially you banning them from your posts and comments? Why is that different?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t blocking them essentially you banning them from your posts and comments? Why is that different?

No. Blocking in Lemmy is simply a way to remove something from your sight; even if you block a user, the user can still interact with your posts/comments just fine.

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

Right, but my point is OP is criticising the community or its mods for not wanting to interact with everyone and then not wanting to interact with everyone themselves

I personally think blocking and banning is fine in sensible amounts. Sometimes someone is just making your experience worse and bringing nothing to the table for you. I'm interested to hear OP's thoughts on what looks a bit hypocritical to me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I am not sure but I think that OP's point is more like "they don't allow everyone to talk" than "they don't want to hear you". I'm saying this based on his usage of "participate" plus the focus on the mod side of the things.

If my interpretation is correct, there's no hypocrisy, even if I don't fully agree with it.

I personally think blocking and banning is fine in sensible amounts.

I full agree with you on this. Specially when it comes to blocking.