Asklemmy

44847 readers

1745 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

-56

nutomic said it was OK to post opinions that are not pro vax (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

42 comments fedilink hide all child comments

@[email protected] why was @[email protected] site wide banned for posting generic vaccine news articles then? You said there was no anti vaccine policy at Lemmy. Look at that account it broke no rules. If people get banned for following the rules admins make why should anyone trust this platform?

Edit see https://lemmy.ml/post/143232/comment/106216

And https://lemmy.ml/post/143057/comment/106206

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

No trolling? The username is 'vaxedpeopledie'.. To me the way vaccinated is written (with one 'x' or more) is already unsettling enough (if not trolling). But jokes aside - who has a username like this without the intent to stir up controversy?

Edit: Also, I trust this platform because people get banned (i.e., moderation works).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Controversy isn't trolling. Is controversy against site rules? Who cares how a word is spelled?

If people get banned for posting news articles showing the dangers of vaccines then put that in the rules and stop hiding behind the world troll or controversy.

Also you can moderate individual communities however you want but a site wide ban should be when someone breaks a site wide rule. No?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Everyone who reads cares about spelling. It has to do with readability. I know that most mainstream click-bait article headline authors do not care. They do not need to, since their message is typically trivial. If you read more complicated texts it becomes obvious why words cannot be spelled differently in every paragraph. (Also, it seems to be a Usonian problem...) Controversy is not the issue. It can arise. The problem is when posts are made with intent of controversy (a.k.a "user engagement"). In a scientific discussion, controvery disappears with increasing evidence (no need to argue when the facts are clear). Also, ban the trolls from everything (never feed them!).