Hello I'm not a person who is affected by this community moderator but I'm posting on behalf of people who are, since they don't seem to know of this community yet. I attempted to reach some via DM but I'm not sure they'll respond. So I'm making this post since I feel this needs to be addressed.
Recently I was made aware of a community that appeared randomly on Lemmy.world. It seems to be a troll community given the type of content, but the reason I'm posting about it here specifically is that this mod seems to be banning anyone who points this out or goes against his narrative. Furthermore he is only using the autoremove on ban function, not removing any content the users have posted, which I believe is deliberate in attempt to prevent the content from showing up under the modlog and revealing the hypocrisy.
Some samples of comments:
Comment from: @glimse@lemmy.world
Everything else you posted has been pretty cringe but what he fuck is up with this one, dude lol
comment from: @rain_worl@lemmy.world
free software is SLOWING DOWN tech advancement??????? WHAT???????
comment from: @rain_worl@lemmy.world
comment from: @the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world
First off, nice new community. I look forward to days of quality posts such as this./s
Second, how many Linux distros have this level of data collection, and what is their estimated market share?
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All of these were retrieved from the API, even though they aren't included in the modlogs, I could've included more but it's kind of a time consuming process to look for them and retrieve them. Viewing removed comments is easier on Lemmy than it is on Reddit but it still isn't easy.
What do you guys think, does this seem like power-tripping? Also does this person's content seem like blatant troll content?
CC: @glimse@lemmy.world @rain_worl@lemmy.world @the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world
People who's comments I mentioned, I CCed them so they know I did this on their behalf
Where did you get the idea we were "freeze peach"? I'm certainly not, nor are most people here. Most of us very firmly believe in the idea that certain types of speech is absolutely unacceptable, after all when the intolerant are tolerated, tolerance dies.
I don't know where you got the idea that we're free speech advocates or how you thought that was at all relevant to this discussion. FYI most Lemmy instances aren't free speech advocates, and do firmly believe in moderation of unacceptable speech, which does often includes tolling, disinformation, and bigotry (including homophobia, transphobia, racism, ableism, etc.).
Maybe it's probably a good idea not to make such assumptions about people or places, since you end up making an ass out of yourself when you do, and potentially exposing your beliefs when you might not want to.
Archived Link containing your comment just in case you delete it: https://archive.ph/gIDOg
Guys definitely trolling or not right. Straight up agreed that Linux is probably mentioned too often but given this sites origins, it shouldn’t be surprising a lot of people advocate for it here. @madthumbs@lemmy.world banned me for it. Sad guy.
Edit: Bizarrely enough the guy used to comment in Linux communities. Including, ironic enough, a comment shitting on a distro for being “new user friendly” but not really much easier to use. I guess when their takes were met with disagreement they decided yelling into the void and banning dissenters was a better option.
I guess he was under the impression that if he ran a community he could make posts and not get as heavily downvoted for his bad takes as he did in the linux communities. Doesn't seem to be working out for him, his posts are still heavily downvoted despite him banning anyone who disagrees with him in comments. He hasn't gotten any support for it from others, the only other person besides him who posted in that community is a person who seems to actually support linux,