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Banned from comms I haven't posted to in months because I said "Dragonfucker isn't a gender" on another instance
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this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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It’s blahaj though, so it’s not really a huge loss. Let them circle the wagons around an embarrassing little troll that mocks transgenderism.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/17030711
Right…. It took them sharing DMs to finally get banned after all the other drama they caused.
That little shithead feeds on drama.
"It's fine until it affects me" sort of thinking.
Yep. Exactly. They weren’t banned because of their trolling. They were banned for showing DMs which means- they’d still be allowed to keep making their drama had they not shared a few DMs it seems.
The troll you are complaining about has been banned from most communities for months and the entire instance for weeks. Ada simply asked users not to dogpile and do vigilante justice against offensive users in order to keep the community a positive experience for all trans people, yet you're still white knighting about an issue that doesn't even exist anymore. :)
Ada protected that shithead for months when we tried to let them know they were a troll. There’s plenty of evidence to validate the accusation, but no, instead of banning the piece of shit- they removed/banned people that called them a troll instead.
And if ada is still an admin, then the issue still exists. So I’m not white knighting shit. Admins have a pretty easy job. And it seems Ada would rather protect trolls under a broad banner than even think that someone would use that banner as a means to hide in plain sight and create drama around their mockery of it.
Yeah, I'm not really upset over it per se. Like I said - I haven't even used any Blahaj comm in months. I just thought it ridiculous that I caught an instance ban from an instance I no longer use because I posted, on another instance entirely, criticism of the idea of 'dragonfucker' as a gender.
Putting your current situation aside, would you find it reasonable if another user got banned from Blahaj from transphobic statements on another community?
Or would you expect the Blahaj admins to wait for that user to make such statements on their communities?
Not particularly? I regard bans for off-comm behavior as ridiculous, speaking as a mod. Off-instance behavior seems doubly strange, and I've commented on such incidents before.
Furthermore, the issue of whether this is transphobic is, itself, core to to the point - most people would not regard the existence of dragons as a matter that relates to transphobia at all. Yet to Blahaj, it would seem an instance-bannable offense - regardless of whether you're on their instance at the time of the comment, or even if you post on their instance.
I would expect the Blahaj admins to not be prowling other instances for thoughtcrime.
Yeah. Blocked the admins and the instance. That place is hot garbage.