pinkdrunkenelephants

We all pay bills in the real world, my friend, and we accept the principles of democracy so we CAN pay bills and not be lorded over by dipshit wannabe tinpot tyrants.

But we both know you just don't want to admit you're wrong about this. I'm sure the other guy who was threatened to be banned for speaking out as well thinks that's a perfectly okay way to accept users.

Actually .world requires user donations to function anyway so your point is DOUBLY moot

Bad faith arguing obviously IS a violation of Rule 1 and one his own users accept given that's apparently what people were reporting others for, and it's the commonly accepted definition of the term anyway.

Calling out a mod obviously can't be a violation of Rule 1 because it leads to abuses like this. It's not about me. It's about the other guys he was threatening, and using me as an emotional cudgel to bully the other users into compliance.

If that's what you think acceptable moderation is on your platform, you ought to step down, too. You can prove me right by banning me for saying that, or you can preserve the integrity of your platform by actually doing something about him. Your choice.

The votes look pretty even to me. And your count isn't looking so great there, hoss.

And yes, this is obviously a democracy and a free community. Mods and admins can't just do what they want. People have expectations for a free and fair place to hang out they have to abide by, especially if they want to keep users.

If you were someone considering switching over from Reddit and you saw this thread, you wouldn't want to join regardless of how you personally felt about me.

You are being irrational about this and you know it.

I thought crabs are boiled. Also I wasn't trying to insult him.

Well, username checks out, at least.

Read the whole-ass thread and the screenshots, my man. He was doing that to other people, not just myself, which is the reason why I made the thread.

It's obvious you don't care about me, but you have a LARGE obligation to care about your other users and to not allow mods to abuse their power and lord over innocent people. This bullshit is NOT why we came to Lemmy.

Because in the real world where adults pay bills, we're allowed to stand up to other people. Especially those who think they can pretend to be authority figures and abuse power to silence anyone who tells them no.

#SorryNotSorry this is a free society. We're allowed to criticize people in power. We're allowed to speak our minds, which he himself claims is apparently acceptable despite rule 1 of his own sub -- but of course that rule only means what he wants it to mean and when it's convenient to him, and you'll just accept it.

They were ignoring reports of other people violating rule 1 and then abusing their power to silence criticism. They threatened another user who did the same thing:

That's what I told the mod and all he did was prove me right.