Hi all, thank you for reading my post. modlod link
Clocks got banned first after suggesting that the OP try to be a genuine friend and try to find some common cause in real life rather than alienating people over abstract geopolitical factionalism:
I raised the issue that censoring earnest advice as ‘tankie apologia’ and preemtively writing off any common cause/ isolating people is no way to win people over either as friends or comrades.
I then got banned for this one, for continuing to find ‘the tankie triad’ extremely silly:
yeah that’s the context, I was just laughing because:
- only Lemmy users with an axe to grind call them that
- it sounds really silly, like they’re a nemesis to dr venture.
- I’m supposed to be the melodramatic one yet every day I get one-upped 😔
screenshot:
I’m not here to tell them how to run their comm, my position is that this is way more draconian than anything I’ve run into in any of ‘the tankie triad’. The same groups of people loudly complaining about censorship on ‘tankie’ run instances don’t seem to have a problem enforcing vague/arbitrary vibes based censorship in their spaces.
The rules are pretty loose, I did get one DM, though this bit at the end opens up a lot of room for arbitrary/vibes based enforcement:
I guess ‘it was necessary’
The DM I sent
The guidelines are specifically called guidelines, not rules. I’m unsure what important steps you feel I skipped. We did not rush mod actions, f.ex. We had a chat about what to do in our mod chat.
We sent a warning, but chose not to tell you about the ban, as we figured you were out for drama.
We explained how you broke the rules and what not to do.
We warned you first, then banned you. We always permaban tankies due to our no tolerance policy.
from the rules:
🤔 don’t think I was doing any of those
I think I’ve made it clear that I read you as a tankie?
Yeah, that was clear, hence my position on arbitrary/vibes based enforcement. you followed your rules, they lend themself towards that
It’s right there in the sidebar:
Tankies are defined as authoritarian “communists”
Vibes based, I spoke up for Clocks who had offered earnest and positive advice for interacting with people you disagree in real life, without alienating them. If you treat all real life interpersonal interactions like an online purity test I can see why you spend so much time here worried about ‘tankies’
tbh you lot are exhibiting behavior I normally see reserved for cults.
“Vibes based” hilarious considering I’ve been collecting actual hard documentation of what y’all say and do, and it’s right in line with the definition of a tankie
😳 are you posting from the blackout van that’s been parked up the street from me?
That’s fine. Except the posters in question were not supporting authoritarianism at all, they were suggesting that one gets more flies with honey than with vinegar in trying to convince those who do believe in or support authoritarianism that their position sucks.