Post for context: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/32833874/19336416
That community has apparently had similar bans in the past, and neither the community nor the server mention their rules anywhere I can find. I also messaged the mod to ask for a link to the rules, their reply was "You need to complete your sentences otherwise you’re going to get a ban."
Not sure if the mod just didn't like the content of my comment and made up a nonpolitical reason, or if their modding is really that arbitrary.
21 Comments
Chozo@fedia.io · 63 pts · 1y
You're on thin ice, mister!
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat · 35 pts · 1y
I strongly suspect the incomplete sentence wasn’t the issue.
That same user, I’m pretty sure, was the one posting “joking” absurdist comics about how Biden and Kamala Harris had gleefully caused the entire genocide single-handed and then running and hiding behind “I’m just saying ridiculous stuff, like Monty Python, oho” when the comments were alarmed and pushed back on it.
The “incomplete sentence” thing sounds a lot like more of the same absurdist cover to deflect from the fascism they are actually doing.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 24 pts · 1y
Kualdir@feddit.nl · 19 pts · 1y
How could this
diplodocus@lemmy.sdf.org · 13 pts · 1y
It’s happened to me before, too. As far as I’m concerned, that mod is a troll (“Thank you for creating content!”), so I don’t engage with their communities at all.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
Wow, I mean I've seen them create comments like that before but I had no idea it was that bad. they almost seem like a bot from those responses.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1y
The mod of that community is a real asshole. Bans people for the littlest things including just things they don't like (they claim acronyms are against the rules there but have no rules listed).
You're better off posting in a real news community like !globalnews@lemmy.zip or !world@quokk.au
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y
issthty
Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
idbttdi
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 3 pts · 1y
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
The news and politics mods need to be replaced
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
What's a Tagen?
Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 1y
Tagen = Days
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
kux@lemm.ee · -4 pts · 1y
Severe sense of humour deficiency up and down this thread. YDI because it's funny
Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -14 pts · 1y
Ngl it's quite a funny ban reason 😂 but you really shouldn't take any sdf communities seriously, they are just screwing with you.
Your question was valid:
But they could have simply replied "Ok, maybe aiding and abetting would be a better choice of words" or something similar.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat · 17 pts · 1y
This construction is called Schrodinger’s Douchebag.
Deleting someone in the comments who is pointing out that your dead-serious post is being dishonest, doesn’t all of a sudden become light-hearted and silly just because you are lying in a weird way about why you’re doing it.
Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -8 pts · 1y
I don't think they are particularly political tbh. I guess you can choose to take it seriously or choose to find it funny. You do you Philip.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat · 9 pts · 1y
Always do.
ChadMcTruth@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
do me next
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat · 8 pts · 1y
See, as far as I can tell, you are actually doing the kind of political absurdism that SDF is pretending to here.
I honestly can’t tell whether you are trolling or doing satire or what your real political leaning is, which probably means it’s pitch perfect satire. Maybe. Like I say I have no idea. But the fact that I can detect a single strong political leaning in SDF’s antics, and often the funny has to give way to the politics apparently, is exactly what makes me feel like they’re not doing absurdism so much as they are hiding behind it.
ChadMcTruth@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
that didnt sound anything like me
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat · 5 pts · 1y
Precisely. Like I said, I always do me.