Unpopular Opinion

I defended @[email protected] when a comment of theirs was reported.

I was just given context on this. Looking at their comments in that light, I have decided to ban them from [email protected] for all their bad faith arguments. Banning people for "bad faith" voting is bullshit. Coming here to defend that horrible action will not be tolerated.

We all know it's the vegan community. I got banned for simply voting on comments.

Now they're also spamming posts to fill up everyone's feeds.

I got banned for downvoting. Kind of hard to take people seriously when they’re so sensitive to criticism that the equivalent of a thumbs down emoji gets you banned.

I never care about these posts unless you share what you posted.

Too Many times the "it was just a little joke bro" turns out they called someone's dog the N word or something and understand why they got banned.

"What it wasn't like I said it about a person, just a ***** dog"

So, have fun OP, but making this post makes me doubt you more than them if you're not going to recount any details at all.

Vegans will talk mad shit and then get so mad when their thread reaches nonvegan feeds.

Can't stand the heat, which is why they eat salad.

Not to be all "not like the other girls" about veganism, but I kind of hate the general vegan communities. They always end up turning into a who can hate meat eaters the most contest and the less extreme members usually leave. It's also really frustrating because the goal should be to get more people eating plant based, and their methods just push people away. Yeah, of course I believe people should stop eating meat, and I struggle to understand how someone can acknowledge the cruelty of factory farming and turn around and eat a burger, but shouting them down isn't accomplishing anything. I'm not going to engage with the people who show up just to talk shit, but I'm down to talk to anyone actually open to a conversation.

That said, there are a lot of people who think it's suuuuper funny to seek out vegan communities to make the same tired ass comments that lead to vegans becoming angrier and more insular, so I really don't want to make this a Vegans Bad comment. I get the desire to tell people to fuck off. It's exhausting to try to talk about a news article and be constantly drowned out by trolls.

OP, I don't know what your comment said, but you know whether or not you were engaging in good faith. Maybe you deserved the ban, maybe not. I just think maybe sometimes we could all stand to keep scrolling.

Ahhhhh... feels just like Reddit! It's like we never left!

So, like, if I organize a block party where everyone's invited, and someone drops a deuce in the punch bowl, I shouldn't ask them to leave because I should have had a discrete guest list?

I’ve never come across a friendly vegan community. I’m not exactly looking for one but the ones that make themselves known tend to have extreme takes. There’s nothing wrong being vegan but their online community sure feels they’re going about it the wrong way, being overly dismissive and defensive rather than open and helpful.

Seriously these mods ban you for literally nothing. I think they're worse on here than they ever were on Reddit. Bunch of fucking children I swear to God.

edit Oh hey now I'm banned from c/vegan too. I wasn't even talking about them. They're even worse I guess.

Was it on the vegan community? I bet it was on the vegan community.

Their echo chambers are lined with the same material the tankies use in their communities.

Nah, a ton of people say the same thing.

They're wrong, and so are the immediate bans (the bans are asshole moves, but you don't just jump into a C/ without checking the vibe a little), but it's too common a complaint to call unpopular.

We're talking about u/beaver aren't we?

One of the things I disliked about Reddit was the self righteous power mods that turned the site in to an echo chamber.

If you can't handle a counter point that's been made in good faith, then get off of the soapbox.

Just leave the rabid vegans alone. They are showing you who they are. Believe them and don’t waste your time trying to be rational with them.

Some people get the tiniest shred of a hint of a... concept of a plan... of power and it turns them into tiny tinpot tyrants. Sometimes they're on HOAs, sometimes they're middle management, and sometimes they moderate communities or forums online. You can't reason with them, and it's out of your ability to destroy them, so you're better off just shrugging your shoulders, giving them the finger, and then doing something else.

I feel like the Internet doesn't have that fuzzy but between public and private spaces like real life does. Some people want their public space to be like a Marxist book store on a side street to a Main/High Street. Sure, people can come in to read the literature and talk about the books there. However, if someone comes in wanting to discuss the merits of Ayn Rand, they are probably going to be kicked out.

IMO this is mainly only a problem because Lemmy is small enough that everyone is browsing all and there's no realistic natural separation of users. Going private is an extreme solution with high likelihood of it just dying as a result.

Looks like it's just a temp ban, not permanent:

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=1271184

Upvoted as unpopular. I don't know if I agree with this or not (on general grounds), it's extremely complicated.

In theory it's completely OK to have a community for a restricted but non-private demographic, and often it's how you avoid a crowd of "excuuuuse me, I'm going to debate the same stale points over and over, and I expect you to waste your time with me".

In practice we know that there's a high chance that the community evolves into an echo chamber, of the dumbest type - that claps to convenient idiocy, but ridicules inconvenient truth.

If it's sensible to have a community like this, as well as the outcome of having it like this, depends mostly on the sanity of whoever is in charge of the comm.

[Edited for subtle rewording. No change on discourse.]

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

This is exactly what made subreddits turn into an indistinguishable mush once they start reaching the front page. A way to not have your community show up in All would be nice, or to make posts read-only unless you're subscribed.

I don't think this opinion is really all that unpopular, but I get that this sub is often used to air grievances and somewhat popular opinions, so I won't judge too harshly.

Pretty impressive modlog rap sheet you got there OP! I had my last account for over a year and I don't think I got banned or had a comment removed once, so seeing an account with dozens of entries is eye opening to say the least. This account is new enough that I've managed to stay off the modlogs so far with it as far as I'm aware. Maybe I should go into a random sub and say something racist and/or toxic! Are there any dog specific communities where I can request dog meat recipes?