Power tripping bastards

Thanks for sharing! The two communities can be a team :)

I’m trying to add to it! :) glad you find it welcoming too

Thanks!

I can understand being on guard because so many people make fun of or try to troll vegans. I can't understand being openly hostile towards each other to the point that mods have to lock whole threads etc.

Possible, I tend to upvote before fully reading things so maybe I upvoted the wrong recipe

It's indeed exactly the same comments. I was banned along with you and posted it back then. In the other thread also Sunshine (the mod) responded but doubled down on her decision.

I find it very unfortunate that !vegan@lemmy.world apparantly doesn't allow for debates but I guess that's in the end the decision of the mods.

The ban definitely seems unnecessary

While I disagree with corpo speak, bans like that don't make much sense.

Just block the place and move on. That's the fedi way.

Everything was probably said in those 364 comments

Man, I troll that kind of vegan, and those mods are the kind that swallow the bait with eagerness.

There's actually a really great plantbased C/ now that isn't run by the zealots, so there's friendly convos going on. It's so nice to see.

That being said, within their idea of what that community is supposed to be, they do treat everyone equally badly when they voice even the tiniest hint of anything other than fervor. So, it's relatively fair, in that they don't play favorites, and apply mod actions consistently. They may use shitty rules that aren't clearly spelled out, but they apply them in a predictable way.

It's why, even though I would cackle at them if they rose to bait, I don't ever feel comfortable calling it power tripping. It's crap, it makes the community suck, and it makes it difficult on any vegan that isn't a zealot. But that's a different issue to me.

Now, there's mods of other vegan communities that are power tripping as hell. Well, one, but I ain't going into drama that old beyond using it as how I draw that line. A different mod in a different vegan community decided to issue bans to all his communities because of someone (me) not agreeing with him in the way he wanted to see it. That's power tripping.

Someone being a crap mod and running a community poorly isn't the same thing, if you get where I'm coming from.

Crap mods can end up being fair, simply by virtue of being crappy to everyone lol.