Here are the things that get you banned: -saying anything remotely iffy with a lemmygrad account -tankie behaviour -nazi behaviour -authoritarian behaviour -genocide denial -prejudice of any kind -anything else that is clearly bad
Things that get your post/comment removed: -anything in the banlist -posts that are so off topic/moldy that they don’t fit on 196 at all (very rare, not usually enforced)
Ban length varies, and is mostly based off of whether or not I think you will change your behavior. I have baned certain people for upwards of 200 days.
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Can you please ban me for 5 days so that I know what it looks like on this platform?
communism good; capitalism bad; is that iffy?
None of us have any issue with communists
None of us have any issue with communists
- saying anything remotely iffy with a lemmygrad account
- tankie behaviour
- authoritarian behaviour
Color me skeptical.
Thinking communism is a good system and sucking of dictators is a bit of a difference isn’t it lol.
I literally today saw a post celebrating and congratulating Xi for being a leader for so long, you know, while forcing that no one else could take power.
Also associating communism with authoritarianism is very saying.
Thinking communism is a good system and sucking of dictators is a bit of a difference isn’t it lol.
I literally today saw a post celebrating and congratulating Xi for being a leader for so long, you know, while forcing that no one else could take power.
Also associating communism with authoritarianism is very saying.
I can see I was right to be skeptical. “I love communism; just not in any of the ways that it has ever historically or presently succeeded.”
Communism has never been implemented. We had “really existing socialism” which then drifted off into state-capitalist tyranny, capitalist tyranny, or straight tyranny. Cuba and Vietnam fare better, they’re drifting towards democratic socialism.
No, i don’t consider it succeeding if there’s a dictator in power. Is that a hot take? Again, I’m fairly anti-capitalist too. I am also anti-authoritarian, and thus also against dictators. Hence i do not consider Xi’s CCP
Successful.Edit: what barsoap said is also true. China utilizes a capitalist system as economy. Do you really think those factory workers own their factory themselves? If so, how are there so many Chinese billionaires? Billionaires shouldn’t exist in a communist society.
how tankies are still surprised that fascist apologia gets them banned in an antifascist community is beyond me
Why are they even allowed to federate here
I mean, it says in the post, they’re allowd to federate but are “on probation”
The main dev of lemmy is one of them, that’s how.
Probably because banning people based purely on political ideology is kind of facist 😝
Unfathomably based
Ah yes, some good news today as well
Happy to see this community is starting off on the right foot
Question is Lemmy.world affiliated with the tankies that made lemmygrad or is it separate? I didn’t know about any of this prior so now I’m worried a bit
No. It is not
I was wondering when someone would start discriminating based on what instance you made your account on…
You can use 196 on a lemmygrad account, but because it’s by definition a tankie Lemmy site, you’re basically on probation.
Can you define “tankie behavior” so this doesn’t get abused by a power-tripping mod later?
@Shinhoshi @moss Defending the use of force against civilians expressing disagreement over their government’s decisions peacefully?
Because of the Reddit migration, 196 is coming up in my Lemmy feed a lot, I have no idea what it is (because you haven’t made a description).
This could be your chance to gain more community members if you update your description
Well sort of the point of 196 is that you can post almost anything, the only rule is that you have to post each time before leaving. This rule isn’t enforced for obvious reasons, unlike the ban against tankies.
maybe consider (temporarily? permanently?) hiding vote-count on posts, to make it seem less dead in here. it doesn’t matter how many votes a post has; it just matters whether it’s higher or lower than others. for functional reasons, at least.
I’ve got vote counts hidden in my UI so things don’t feel dead for me, it also helps me resist group think to a varying extent
I don’t think that’s a good idea. Also, it isn’t dead in here by any measure
i’m seeing nine posts in the last hour, and top rated post of all time at 680 upvotes, both figures being below 1/10th of what appear(ed) on the sub.
that’s by reddit measure, which is “a” measure, the only one most of us have for reference. i suggested upvote hiding because the reduced count may be discouraging.
they are not bad in themselves, however: if i were, say, moderating this place, I’d say these numbers are too damn high because scary x3. and yes, they’re high as hell for general lemmy standards; from everywhere I’ve looked, that’s obvious.
but the “Reddit perspective” is my reasoning for my suggestion, and i think those reasons will fade away anyway as people acclimate to these new figures, much like someone gets used to big numbers being normal on Japanese restaurant menus.
thanks for running this place; i think you’re doing a great job of saving some of this culture
I understand where you’re coming from, and really appreciate the input but I think people will find it stranger to have no upvotes vs the community just feelig like it’s in a budding phase
Why do you have mods who have advanced the claim that Jews deserved the Holocaust because “Communism is just as genocidal as Naziism” and it’s really a tit-for-tat?
Do I have to link to an article explaining that Double Genocide Theory was created by Nazis and their sympathizers to JUSTIFY the Holocaust after denial failed?
And was advanced by the Reagan Administration and America’s fascist puppet-states in Eastern Europe, including Poland which deindustrialized and gave money to fascist militias to expel Jews without officially doing so?
Or that the crimes of communist countries were exaggerated to comical levels, including blood libel like “the enriched bread was made with the crushed bodies of aborted Christian fetuses” in order to justify arresting Jews, and like Falun Gong organ harvesting claims you freaks are just repeating the polite version of antisemitic blood libel by people who really liked Trump?
“Oh, our cult’s qiqong is so good ChiNazi harvests our organs to sell to Jews for their rituals, and every cultivation group and traditional religious group approved by the government are all in on it.” is the sort of freak show shit that HongKongers actually believe and this shit gets cleaned up and repeated by people who one would think should know better until you realize that many Holocaust collaborators were educated liberals who kept up with international news.
Sort of like how in Egypt it’s the liberals who are transphobes and conservatives are supportive unless they’re westernized Muslim Brotherhood regime change agents.
