Your argument is irrelevant. You called for death in two separate comments. It's right there in black and white. You can't deny it, it's preserved in the modlog.
1 day left on the temp ban. Be better when you come back.
jordanlund
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We don't need all the news from a single perspective. Multiple users need to be able to contribute too.
If the community is a wall of posts from the same user, others may feel like they can't contribute.
Federal torts and also "qualified immunity".
Oh, there's no doubt it's a radical position. I've had to explain to another mod why the classic dishonest question "When did you stop beating your wife?" is a rhetorical device and not actually endorsing spousal abuse. (I got that comment restored once people actually understood what was being said.)
But in the cases of the comments that started this whole blow up, there is absolutely no ambiguity. If your comment contains any variation on "DEATH TO..." yeah, that's going to get removed.
You ever see the movie "The Fisher King" with Robin Williams? GREAT flick. Jeff Bridges plays this radio DJ who goes off on a rant about Yuppies. (Ye olden term for "Young Urban Professionals". We'd call them "Tech Bros" now. Yeah, it's super old.) Saying "They must be stopped! It's us or them!"
Well, someone listening took a shotgun down to a yuppie bar and killed 7 people.
The movie isn't as dour as that makes it out to be, it's actually quite touching and funny. Peak Terry Gilliam.
But the point is, if a comment, even an offhand one, could inspire violence, it's got to go. Hopefully someone catches it.
I get the rainbow of drugs, that was me last week!
I really don't know how to make it simpler than I've already stated.
There are degrees of moderation. For example... two users engaging in an internet slap fight. If you're going to make me be the dad in the room, I'm going to remove all your comments and ban both of you for 24 hours to cool off. I like to think of that as the "I don't care who started it, I'm finishing it" rule.
Some users are chill about it, some get butthurt over it, some repeat offend which makes the next ban longer, and longer until it's clear they're just trolling and get a permaban.
The user who started this whole thread directly called for violence, got removed and warned, did it again which earned a 3 day ban, that expires tomorrow so we'll see how it goes. Based on their attitude here I'm not exactly optimistic. They know the rules, if they come back with the same crap they will be permabanned and I will not feel bad about it.
The user who defended them was warned, proceeded to attack me as a mod which also earned a 3 day ban. They would have been temp banned for attacking any user, mods are not an exception to that. Again, we'll see how it goes. They don't seem exactly contrite, so again, not optimistic.
A lot of users take the bans in stride. I've had multiple PMs from people along the lines of "Sorry, I was drunk, it won't happen again."
Where they don't want to be is on the moderation radar. When we get reports, we see who is being reported and who is doing the reporting. Usually the same names pop up over and over again.
Some names I look at and I'm like "They always make a solid report, let's see what it is this time..."
Other names it's "Oh, god, this asshole... AGAIN..."
Most of the time it's names I don't recognize at all.
Well, I was going to say "someday they'll discover masturbation" but they're clearly already engaging in that. 😉
Removing comments and banning users isn't violence, it's good housekeeping. It's also a requirement of modding a lemmy community.
In before "YoU CaN'T SuE ThE GoVeRnMeNt" /s
Hey @[email protected] Looks like you're posting a bunch.
Please note sidebar rule 7:
"Rule 7: We didn’t USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you’re posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page."
"Surely nothing could go wrong."
Because their war crimes already killed the other half? 🤔
? I thought the US was when Trump agreed to pull out and turn it over to them?
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Yeah, the Afghani government, or I should say "government" folded up so fast it's hard to remember the timeline. It may be we made the promise to the non-Taliban government which had the half-life of francium. (Yes, I looked that up.)