This was originally written as a reply for this thread: https://lemmy.world/post/19238577
I’m copying it here because I don’t trust a LW admin to just not delete it right away since that seems to be something they love doing.
tl;dr - a user calls out the LW mods for rapid fire banning a bunch of users today, I investigate
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Let’s review some of these bans, as called out by ChomskyWasRight@slrpunk.net:
https://lemm.ee/post/40926293/14446156
From the top:
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LagrangePoint@lemmy.world https://imgur.com/4XsXuOC
Quote: "LW admin/mod team seem to have this overbearing and weird belief that they need to tell everyone else what to think and how to think it. How about… you all just fuck off and don’t?
Result: Permaban
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aniki@lemmings.world https://imgur.com/LIye27F
Quote: “All rights are won through violence, child. Bans on here means less than the nothing platitudes you utter”
Result: 15 day ban
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catloaf@lemm.ee https://imgur.com/ONGdgNo
Quote: [the quote is really long, pls dont make me type it and just look at the link lol]
Result: 15 day ban
Note: the comment precedes the ban by 26 days, but catloaf’s recent comment history contains opinions critical of the LW News mod team
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DoctorButts@kbin.melroy.org https://imgur.com/q2kktNQ
Quote: “Damn what a shame, guy almost stopped being a moderator on an internet forum, would have been a grave tragedy”
Result: Permaban
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stormesp@lemm.ee https://imgur.com/ZCRtuJe
Stormesp’s profile at lemm.ee: https://lemm.ee/u/stormesp
Quote: [there were no comments removed in the modlog, but stormesp’s recent comment history contains opinions critical of the LW News mod team, read them yourself]
Result: 15 day ban
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MindTraveller@lemmy.ca https://imgur.com/YwIMSOq
Quotes: [multiple quotes, there are a lot, check out the link]
Result: 15 day ban
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Summary
Most interestingly here is that the two users who got permabanned didn’t use slurs and didn’t call for violence, they merely insulted the moderator team. I guess in the LW News mod team’s eyes, that’s a horrible, terrible, awful, unforgivable offense, so… PERMABAN.
Aniki literally is saying “words are useless, let’s resort to violence” but that’s a 15 day ban only, OK, makes sense, right???
Catloaf and Stormesp were actively leaving comments sparring with the moderator team in that thread. To be honest, none of what I’m seeing in these comment seems worthy of a ban. Unless of course, you’re a LW mod and you go “this guy is disagreeing with me, therefore they deserve a ban.”
Edit: I forgot to write about MindTraveller since that guy douchecanoe was a last minute addition. But look at those aggressive comments, guy douchecanoe deserves a ban for sure.
Edit 2: fixed pronouns for MindTraveller
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Conclusion
Not a good look. Does LW want to grow into a good Reddit alternative or do they just want to turn it into Reddit for themselves only?
LW can at least come clean about this and say “yes, the rest of you can get fucked” or maybe they will have a moment of realization at some point “oh my god, are we the baddies?”
Point taken, but come on, you should know why it is difficult.
This is a pie chart of the community distribution:
https://lemmy.ca/post/26878531
Notice which ones have the biggest shares? World, .ml, and Hexbear - three of possibly the shittest instances on Fedi at the moment.
Unfortunately until communities outside of LW become more lively, if most people are looking for drive-by discussion, they will find it at LW. For now.
In order to change that, we can all chip in to start livening up communities outside LW, like Blaze seems to be doing.
I would focus more on the second listing which has 57 for LW, 10 for lemmy.ml and 5 for SJW
Hexbear only has 1
I’m kind of impressed lemm.ee has even 3 top 100 communities due to the predominance of LW.
Also, I just had a look again. The 100th monthly community is starwars memes, and I count at least 2 sopuli communities above, !memes@sopuli.xyz and !ukraine@sopuli.xyz
Indeed, as always, feel free to join us on !fedigrow@lemm.ee
Be the change you want to be. Building communities is hard work!
Tell me about it.
Also, as you are on Beehaw, do you think there is any chance that you guys would refederate with LW and SJW?
🤷 Word is we’re eventually moving to Sublinks, not sure if that’ll change anything
Not sure either, Beehaw could move to Mbin tomorrow, the point would still stand: do you consider refederating 😄
At the moment it’s a bit frustrating because while Beehaw communities are nice (hu hu), knowing that posting there will prevent LW and SJW people from seeing your post can demotivate potential posters.
I agree! I have a guest account for lw in Voyager, but I still mostly browse here.