Will it be effective?

Spoiler

No, it was not very effective.

EDIT: The banning event continues. Please consult the modlog to observe.

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&modId=7121342

If you scroll down to about a day ago, you might be able to observe an emerging behavior from this mod.

EDIT 2: The mod in question moderates a total of 108 Lemmy communities. How deep does this conspiracy run? Is this mod a lost Redditor? More to come!

EDIT 3: The mod has now removed my comment all together, one might assume because it was still receiving upvotes in the 2 hours following my ban. Are there similarities here to Watergate? You be the judge!

EDIT 4: The mod in question has now been removed as a mod of the [email protected] community, as a result of their abuse of power.

https://lemmy.world/post/19731457

This was their response:

EDIT 5: This will be my final update, since as far as I see it, the issue this thread focuses on has been resolved. To quote Beaver herself in a very ironic comment she made directed towards someone else:

Clearly this was all just a case of…

  • YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    Am I missing something here? The vegan community is for vegans and people to ask questions about being vegan but is not for debating about any part of being vegan. That is their rule 5, which I see people break every day thinking it is ok to shit all over vegans there. If you don’t want to hear about vegans then block the community.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      but is not for debating about any part of being vegan

      If that’s the case, I want to know why perfectly innocuous comments are still removed. Seems like they operate on a whim.

      • YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        4 months ago

        Depends on the context maybe? Idk I am not a mod. I’ve just seen comments about arguing for eating meat or saying something like “I’m going to eat 2 hamburgers now because of you” which are just annoying. I thought that was what this was about. I’ll leave my comments up for anyone else confused.

      • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Cause over the last few weeks, a bunch of debates over moderation drama have been full of people attacking vegans over the cat taurine debate. That drama is over and it reached a consensus resolution between the mods and admins. If they’ve made an executive judgement that the moderation drama is no longer relevant and baits carnists into breaking rule 5, then removing that debate is a valid application of rule 5.

        • geekwithsoul@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Odd then that they’re using Rule 5 bans on people like me who never posted to their community

    • TwilightKiddy@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      The problem is, in my opinion, that they post memes that are clerly provoking non-vegan people for discussion.

      It’s weird to jump under a “here are my 15 ways of cooking asparagus” post with anti-vegan content. But “look at these carnovorous clowns” memes are clearly offensive.

      • streetfestival@lemmy.caEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I don’t think it’s intended to provoke non-vegan people, I think it’s meant to be a ‘for us, by us’ community. PSA to all: there’s a block community button for communities that are not hateful or illegal (you should report those) but are things you’d prefer not to see on your personalized feeds

        • TwilightKiddy@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          That’s what private communities are for. Calling people names while perfectly aware of it leaking into the public feed is a provocation. And it worked.

          • streetfestival@lemmy.caEnglish
            01·
            4 months ago

            I’m not sure what you’re referring to re: name-calling tbh, and I think this thread is an overreaction, but I agree with you that non-private communities have some obligation to civility or something like that

    • ccunning@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      I think what you are missing is that they’re banning people for breaking Rule 5 that haven’t broken Rule 5.

      Nobody is taking issue with them banning people that broke Rule 5.

    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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      4 months ago

      If they indeed promoted vegan diets for carnivores then I’m for a ban of the mod / community too. That’s very much animal abuse.

    • Zess@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      If you don’t want to hear about vegans then block the community.

      Doesn’t help much when one of their users is being so fucking stupid that news of it spreads across all of Lemmy.

    • pjwestin@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      The mod isn’t banning people for debating in the comments. A lot of people the mod is banning (myself included) are people who only downvoted posts. Considering that a large portion of the posts are blatantly antagonist things like this, it easy to see why they’re getting downvoted. If you’re going to insult 90% of the users on an instance, then you’re going to get downvoted.

      The mod could have made the community private so they could insult people without consequences, but instead, they decided to remain public while banning anyone who downvotes their insults. They want to continue to antagonize the instance while removing the instance’a ability to respond. They want to artificially lower the number of downvotes they get, so it doesn’t look like their antagonistic bullshit is as unpopular as it is.

      Everyone could block the community, and if you choose to do that, that’s a reasonable response, but it shouldn’t be the only response. We should be able to express our opinion about the content in our feeds, even if it’s just downvoting it. Why should an entire instance be expected to hide from one abusive community?