Truth be told, this doesn’t change much, but I’d still like to make it official.
As of about 17 days ago, I have stepped down as the head mod of 196 on both this platform and lemmy.world. I will be yielding that title to the much more qualified Qaz, who’s been functionally in charge for quite a while now.
Despite what you may think, I make this choice really only for one reason: I don’t have nearly enough spare time in my life to be consistently available enough to be head mod.
What does this change/what does this mean?
To be honest, pretty much nothing for all of you. I’ve barely been available for the past however many months it’s been, and in that time the community has been run exclusively by Qaz and the rest of the team.
All that you’ll see changed is that Qaz will at times be the one that makes an announcement, and Qaz is now the only person that can make moderatorial decisions (bans, ect) without checking with the rest of the team (a power reserved for head mod).
I’ll still be around. I’m still a mod, I’ll still do announcements at times, and the rules post will most likely stay as my account, but from now on, Qaz gets the final say, not me.
I banned Stamets a couple times over the last year for posting an anti-trans meme and a different instance of not tagging NSFW. Stamets is a repeat offender, hence the ban from Moss. Banning people for not tagging NSFW is in the stated rules. Repeat offenders are held to a higher standard. The “trolling” tag was because they plainly refused to tag the post.
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Okay, I’ve taken a look and so far I’ve seen the following.
You were never banned (except for one time being banned by moss), but Peachy did remove several posts from you. One of those removed posts was an “anti-trans meme” (probably not intended by you this way) and a different instance of you not tagging NSFW. I believe you when you say you never posted anything transphobic, but it certainly seems like the meme has transphobic elements. It starts with saying “you will never be a real mushroom” (“you will never be a real woman”). It also says the subject never will have spores (reference to trans woman missing “real” genitals). Furthermore, it finishes with “You are a small kitten twisted by fabric and wool into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection”, which is very close to things like “You are a man with a dress and implants and a crude mockery of nature’s perfection”. This might seem far-fetched, but each line is extremely similar to common transphobic sayings.
So, enough meme analysis and talk about the things you’ve said:
So this is false, but I can understand why you might have thought that because those removals were on blahaj and you might have checked the logs for lemmy.world
Peachy didn’t say you were “being transphobic”, they said they removed an “anti-trans meme”, which is true.
I hope you can see why a mod who sees someone posting a (to some) blatantly obvious transphobic meme, later sees them not marking a post as NSFW, is unlikely to see their side of the issue when they later complain about a ban. I can understand that you’re upset (rightfully so, I don’t think the ban was justified) and have no interest in participating in this community going forward, but we’re not making things up.
SO THEN PEACHY WAS LYING. Full stop. We do not need to continue this conversation. Peachy explicitly said they banned me in the past for my behavior but it never happened. Nothing else ever needs to be said. Your moderator was just lying about me and what I’ve done and you just handwaved that away like it was nothing. Every single ounce and shred of respect I had for you as a person has completely evaporated. You do not get to say to someone “Hey this person is lying about me” by saying “Yeah that never happened but this other stuff!”
No. Two. Several applies to several. Two is a couple. I don’t appreciate you using this type of language to make things seem like other than what they are.
That meme was tongue in cheek about transphobia which is why literally all the comments are in line with that and why it was upvoted. No. It does not have transphobic elements. It is openly mocking transphobia which, again, is why it has like 300 upvotes. So this is just a demonstration of an EXTREME disconnect between the mods and their own users.
No. It is clear and free of any such removals. The only removal done was by someone who doesn’t understand sarcasm when the entirety of the community did and the other removal was done because of a disagreement of what constitutes NSFW that was done in a purely respectful fashion.
No, I don’t appreciate you putting words in my mouth or removing them from Peachy. What Peachy actually said was:
Literally never occured and you’re arguing here that it did. I don’t appreciate a mod trying to gaslight me about events that literally never happened when you openly admit they didn’t.
And that ban happened nowhere near the posting of either meme. Meaning that the mods banned me WELL AFTER both the ‘anti-trans’ meme and the ‘nsfw’ meme. So there still isn’t a justification because it was done delayed as fuck and out of nowhere with no warning and with a bold faced lie as a justification. Again, they said they banned me multiple times. They never did.
I have lost such insane amounts of respect for you. You wanna argue the transphobic or the nsfw thing? Sure. That’s just opinion but you don’t get to tell me
when that happened NOWHERE NEAR the time that I was banned. You also don’t get to say
A few sentences after
So yes dude. Peachy is making shit up and I am extremely unappreciative of this behavior from both them and from you.
But what you have done is remind me of just how low Lemmy has fallen and have finally convinced me to leave Lemmy permanently and rip every ounce of content I have ever posted out from underneath it. Why should I provide any content for this place when this place is turning into such a perfect clone of reddit. Abusive moderators, the truth doesn’t mean anything, and just do what you want.
You did this. Alongside every other moderator and user on this site over the past year that has turned Lemmy from a great place to hang out to another bitter and vindictive mod-masturbatory session where none of you can do any wrong ever while the rest of us? Fuck us. Sure. Moss gets to step down but Peachy is still around lying and I guess that doesn’t matter. That combined with the userbase of Lemmy as a whole getting more and more toxic?
This place isn’t worth my time or effort anymore.
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You are bold-faced fucking lying.
You have never banned me from this community. I have exactly one ban from this community and it was done by moss. I have also had one removal from this community. That was over an NSFW post. I disagreed that it was NSFW which is why I ended up deleting that post.
I do not, however, appreciate you outright fucking lying about me. I do not appreciate you ever saying that I have ever posted transphobic ANYTHING. You want to say whatever else about me? Fine. But you have literally no evidence of ever banning me for being transphobic because it never happened. The modlogs are public. I’d recommend you check them before making shit up about people or ‘misremembering’ shit about them.
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I might buy that for Stamets but not necessarily for the other people who commented in that thread. Some of those people had very illegitimate bans indeed.
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It’s in the modlog, you don’t need to take my word for it.
We have an email people can reach out to. We all have access to it so we can keep each other accountable. If anyone feels that they’ve been unfairly banned, they can reach out to the email and a mod unrelated to the ban will address it. We’ve let go of a mod in the past for unfairly banning people, it’s not like we’re going to defend each other for no reason. We’re a team, sure, but my justice-flavored autism isn’t going to hold that relationship over doing the right thing.
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