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  • If the sole moderator of a community was banned from an instance, does that make the community unavailable to the instance they were banned from?

    No.

    No, it doesn’t make the group inaccessible by other users, however, if the content posted by the banned user is also removed, it means that a lot of the group content also goes away if that user was active.

    In this case, I also banned the group itself, because a group that won’t moderate against nazis is a group that I have to moderate to ensure nazi content doesn’t slip through.

    But if it’s a one-off then I understand that you might not have the context to know that this guy is an asshole.

    If you have any evidence of Lawrence acknowledging that stonetoss is a nazi and making it clear it won’t be posted again, I’m happy to restore that user.

    If they just stayed silent on the whole topic, and didn’t acknowledge, I’m not giving them the benefit of the doubt.

    Question for the mods: Is it possible to open a proper investigation to see if we can restore access to !comicstrips@lemmy.world? I love comics, it’s kind of a bummer that I can’t look at content (or even find) the largest comic community on Lemmy

    If you can show me that something has happened to ensure that stonetoss won’t appear in that community again I’m happy to restore it, but as it stands, the stonetoss comic that started this is still visible in that community on lemmy.world. Lawrence (the only mod of the community) hasn’t removed it.


  • Children tempted to drink gasoline, for example.

    Sure. But the goal with kids is to work them towards being able to think for themselves. We guide them until they can, and even then, the guidance should look like rules and guidelines, not indoctrination of thoughts and beliefs.

    And lets take your scenario and extend it. Lets say that aliens come along, and they see our planet, and they realise that it’s doomed because if they don’t intervene, scenario X will happen. They can’t solve this for us, so they need us to mobilise to save ourselves.

    Aliens that come along and set “rules for our own good”, and enforce certain protective rules and regulations, like strict space parents, but do so without trying to control what we think are more “good” than aliens that indoctrinate away our free will and artificially create “voluntary” compliance.

    In the first scenario, the space parents are saving us. In the second scenario, the space parents are replacing us.






  • That thread should be a lesson in learning not to take things at face value or believing what you read.

    What actually happened, is that 6 months ago, a poster that is popular in NCD posted a meme that conflates Hamas and Palestinians, and in effect blames them for their own genocide.

    As a result of that post, the poster in question was instance banned from lemmy.blahaj.zone.

    That’s it.

    As a result of that ban, no further content from the poster in question made its way to lemmy.blahaj.zone.

    Yet the mod of NCD incorrectly assumed that it was only NCD content that was being removed, and rather than investigate or contact someone from blahaj.zone to clarify, they went in guns blazing with accusations based on their own misunderstanding. And when I explained the situation, they double downed on the aggression.

    And the lesson from this is that whatever else happens, some people will still walk away from this thinking that the mods description of events is true, and blaming us for their fuckup.

    If they’re against our guidelines block the community or defederate; if they good under our guidelines then just leave it even if it’s “just a hair under crab”, to use a metaphor

    This is literally how it works.