I wasn't even the mod involved in this until they decided to spew abuse at me in a completely unrelated community that I do mod. Ugh. Why are people like this, and why are so many of them on this platform?
Edit: If this is too close to the spirit of rule 5, I apologize and no hard feelings if you remove it. Trying to make a general point here and anonymized all the identifying bits.
Edit 2: Some of you recognized the user despite my attempts to anonymize things. While it's all there in the modlog, please don't doxx the user as I'm only highlighting the behavior and have already reported them via proper/official channels and shown them the door for the little communities I run.
I'm assuming this is with relation to the YPTB thread accusing Kaplan and the world admins of being Zionist? I had a hunch there was more to the story.
Not to my knowledge, but I'm also out of that loop since I've defedded YPTB's entire instance because of shit like that.
Fair enough and rather a common sentiment. I think that's about the only community there I follow and mostly to observe.
I know it gets a bit fractious and isn't for everyone, but imo YPTB provides a useful way to track mod abuses across instances, and works as a disincentive for mods/admins to abuse their powers. Of course, it isn't always a pleasant experience to be dragged in there, but it does make one think twice before acting, which has a moderating effect.
I don't disagree. That's actually the reason I tend to observe it. I never made accusations against it. But it's obvious at this point that's what this is getting made into. And it is my fault after all when I assumed.
Agreed. You just have to filter through the crap in there.
It's a valuable community if you take it with a grain of salt.
Sadly, that instance - and even more so its twin - have bent over backwards so far to welcome tankies that it is becoming more and more like tankies themselves all the time. The anarchists do not realize that they are going to be eaten alive by the actual tankies, and refuse to believe such even when told outright.
As a result I find myself less and less welcoming the "input" to a conversation from someone with that instance name behind them.
I suppose all the "free speech" crowd has to go somewhere, now that so many entire instances or at least individual people one-by-one are blocking The Triad, and with Lemm.ee having shut down under the weight of that onslaught, those genuinely freedom-loving instances seem to look the most attractive to that crowd of people for whom no means keep pushing further.
I do not believe that it was this way a couple of years ago, but sadly times have changed.
I don't know why our instance is being dragged into this post, the DM was from a piefed.social account. If any of our users sent a DM like that they would be instantly home banned from our instance, fwiw.
A simple mistake. Dub and others have told me that I am mistaken and I'm just going to leave it at that. I was just wondering if it was connected to the drama that was going on over in a thread there in a singular community. They say no. Then no it isn't.
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I have seen no reports
Looks like they self deleted.
That user would never have said the R word or called them an F as an insult.
They’ve now instance banned another use for calling their organisation ZioNazis, so that post entirely related to what it says it is in the post.
What does that have anything to do with the post?
This is a poor attempt of discrediting YPTB’s concerns.
That is a separate issue.
It was an honest question. It had less to do with YPTB, and more to do with an individual well known to be rather bristly. Even if I do find myself generally agreeing with them otherwise. Someone who themselves has had threads in YTPB about them as well. But your need to make this about attacking YPTB really shows your unfounded conspiratorial mindset. If you have a need to feel persecuted. Tell yourself whatever you need though. It doesn't bother me one way or the other. And if it's a separate issue fair enough I will admit that I'm wrong.