I don't troll. At all. What I do is post various comments encouraging a community to not get angry as hell about a change but to make the best out of it. That's what happened when 196 decided to port over from blahaj.zone to lemmy.world. I made a bunch of fairly long comments that were talking about how people shouldn't be angry and just leaving toxic comments but fueling a better community, whether that be here or elsewhere. Comments went fairly well and all was fine and left up for a while but a couple of days after being posted they were removed along with everything else that I had posted to that community. The mods list the reason in the modlog for my permanent ban as "trolling". There are many things I do, but trolling isn't one of them. Especially when the comment sections are left in a state here showing that I wasn't trolling.
I went through everything that I did with that community and cannot find a singular thing with the exception of a memory.
I had posted a meme a couple of weeks ago. I don't remember exactly what it was but I remember a moderator saying on it an hour or two after posting that it should be marked as NSFW. I disagreed with this assessment. I left a comment in response saying that I disagreed that it should be marked and that I would refuse to mark it as NSFW. However, I also respect that it is their community and their rules so I settled for something different. I didn't add an NSFW tag, I just deleted it wholesale. I didn't want to add a tag to something that I didn't feel was applicable and instead of having to sit with that tag on the post, I just deleted the post entirely.
So this only leaves two options from the mods of 196.
Either they banned me for posting comments that were supportive of the community itself and not directly supportive of them or they banned me for deleting a post.
In either case? The moderators of [email protected] are no better than reddit moderators who just lash out for their own ego. Blanket bans for disagreements.
And perhaps unsurprisingly and perfectly fitting of every single accusation that has been levied so far against them and their abusive practices, the last moderator to interact with me was @[email protected].
I find it fucking hysterical how the mods over there are so vehemently Anti-Trump (and should be given the userbase and content) but act no better than someone in his administration.
Edit: I found the post about it being NSFW after going through Moss' profile but unsurprisingly Moss had to go ahead and suppress my comment there as well. It's remarkable how much of their profile is just whining about being treated unfairly while they're going ahead and treating people unfairly. But of course, Moss (being a redditor) had to go ahead and downvote before the removal of the post. Fragile... jesus.
As for how I feel it should be remedied, Moss should step down or at least be removed as a mod on Lemmy.world. They've done nothing for the community that hasn't been insanely divisive as of late. They seem to be remarkably tonedeaf and just openly abusing their position.
Update
@[email protected] went to the community and straight up asked why I was banned. For the record I didn't ask for this or anything and was completely blindsided when I got a notification in my inbox. But a mod over there did respond with this:
So I'm unbanned from the community because a mod could find no reason that made sense why I was banned.
Tell me how that doesn't unilaterally prove that Moss was indeed just banning people over petty ass reasons?
exactly. i don't think they're a bad person to the core, i think they just lack perspective and connection. they won't find that on an internet forum, only the illusion of it. if i try to explain it here i'm only really contributing to their continued entrenchment in this position.
also. my favorite version of the golden rule is that you should conduct yourself like someone you'd want to be friends with.
my second favorite is immanual kant's "I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law."
Oh that 'be who you wanna be friends with' one is pretty good. I like that! Treat how you want to be treated was literally painted on the hallway walls of my elementary school so it just got burned in. This one is way better.
it's like. the core of ethical philosophy is figuring out the best phrasing for it. it's an incredibly valuable life lesson, hence it being spoken in different framings from different philosophers throughout history. i think our society's great failing is that we stop putting it everywhere when children leave elementary school. it should be all over middle schools, high schools, places of work, religious centers, community centers, sports stadiums, you name it. we build society. us. we decide what it should be. so why do the propaganda machines of the wealthy allow ourselves in highschool to shift our view of what it means to be human from kind philosopher to camo clad warrior?
my view is it's because we're all so entrenched in this hegemony that it doesn't even occur to us that the lessons of kindergarten are the most important lessons of all, and we should be expanding on those lessons rather than telling kids once they turn 7 that they've mastered that and it's time to spend the rest of their lives thinking only of STEM without any regard to the arts
We could also start by paying elementary school teachers an actual living wage (in the Western world). Except, you know, we won't do that in the USA, and ironically most teachers in that position that I've ever met have been right-wing conservatives that are actively cheering for Trump to shut down all the federal funding. I think they seem to believe (at least this is what they say) that the fuding will somehow magically spring up from the ground in the form of the local areas stepping forward to now "properly" fund education. They sadly are about to undergo a very rude awakening process when they find out that failing to plan ahead is the same as planning to fail:-(.
oof. my elementary school teachers were who taught me the things that created the anarchist i am today. i guess i was lucky
I wish we could all be thus:-). But maybe some lessons it's better to learn the hard way, in any case.