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!vegan@lemmy.world mod suppresses criticisms of fediverse spam campaign, using mass ban technique to silence opposing viewpoints (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by wesker@lemmy.sdf.org to c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca

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Will it be effective?

Spoiler

No, it was not very effective.

EDIT: The banning event continues. Please consult the modlog to observe.

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&modId=7121342

If you scroll down to about a day ago, you might be able to observe an emerging behavior from this mod.

EDIT 2: The mod in question moderates a total of 108 Lemmy communities. How deep does this conspiracy run? Is this mod a lost Redditor? More to come!

EDIT 3: The mod has now removed my comment all together, one might assume because it was still receiving upvotes in the 2 hours following my ban. Are there similarities here to Watergate? You be the judge!

EDIT 4: The mod in question has now been removed as a mod of the !vegan@lemmy.world community, as a result of their abuse of power.

https://lemmy.world/post/19731457

This was their response:

EDIT 5: This will be my final update, since as far as I see it, the issue this thread focuses on has been resolved. To quote Beaver herself in a very ironic comment she made directed towards someone else:

Clearly this was all just a case of...

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's an echo bunker. Banning anyone who doesn't whole throatedly support their beliefs is a feature of the community, not a bug. I am banned.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 17 points 6 days ago

Ah, this explains it! Saw I was banned from a community that I’d never posted in and evidently one of the mods is a wanker. Mystery solved :)

[–] AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's funny how many trolls and crazy people are attracted to positions of power, I suspect it's compensation. That last message says it all. Their user seems to have been nuked, at least in their home instance. Ironic they had to remove the same mod they not only criticized but also continued criticized in their remove mod post unironically. Does this mean they will move back to lemmy.world? Didn't they move out to lemmy.ml?

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Ahhh no wonder I didn’t see this. I already had Beaver blocked.

[–] YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 days ago (28 children)

Am I missing something here? The vegan community is for vegans and people to ask questions about being vegan but is not for debating about any part of being vegan. That is their rule 5, which I see people break every day thinking it is ok to shit all over vegans there. If you don't want to hear about vegans then block the community.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The mod isn't banning people for debating in the comments. A lot of people the mod is banning (myself included) are people who only downvoted posts. Considering that a large portion of the posts are blatantly antagonist things like this, it easy to see why they're getting downvoted. If you're going to insult 90% of the users on an instance, then you're going to get downvoted.

The mod could have made the community private so they could insult people without consequences, but instead, they decided to remain public while banning anyone who downvotes their insults. They want to continue to antagonize the instance while removing the instance'a ability to respond. They want to artificially lower the number of downvotes they get, so it doesn't look like their antagonistic bullshit is as unpopular as it is.

Everyone could block the community, and if you choose to do that, that's a reasonable response, but it shouldn't be the only response. We should be able to express our opinion about the content in our feeds, even if it's just downvoting it. Why should an entire instance be expected to hide from one abusive community?

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

I think what you are missing is that they’re banning people for breaking Rule 5 that haven’t broken Rule 5.

Nobody is taking issue with them banning people that broke Rule 5.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 6 days ago (21 children)

This good advice. Everyone should block the community.

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[–] Zess@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

If you don't want to hear about vegans then block the community.

Doesn't help much when one of their users is being so fucking stupid that news of it spreads across all of Lemmy.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Rule 5 - This community is an echo bunker.

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[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (9 children)

Oh man, I am so happy I blocked that community months ago because I just have no interest in it or their diet.

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[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

I'm not vegan, but honestly I can understand. As soon as you have an opinion which is not the one of the majority, your posts, even in thematic spaces, are heavily downvoted, and it's tiring. I'm not conservative, I disagree with the posts in c/conservative, buy why would I downvote the things they publish there? A lot of Lemmy members do, however. Same with c/vegan or the religious communities.

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