What irks me the most is the spinelessness of a lot of mods. Shadow banning and banning without an explanation just striffling free speech without acountability. Freedom of expression should not be subject to the whims of individuals!
If this gets me banned than you are worse than spez
Probably the Lemmy users and the community mods? So, nothing different from Reddit.
As a recent mod of another community here on Lemmy, there seems to be a weird expectation that mods are there to protect posters from each other. “They called me an ignoramus! Ban them! Ban them now!” Like…yeah, abusive language should be banned…but mods shouldn’t be a poster’s way to play bait-and-whack-a-mole.
If Reddit mods had to deal with that shit, then I feel sorry for them.
Conversely, there is an expectation that mods are supposed to be impartial. They’re as human as any other poster, and dealing with antagonists day-in, day-out takes its toll. After a while, it’s just indiscriminate pattern recognition: a certain pattern warrants a ban every time without discussion.
For example, when you said this:
Did you look at the rules before and ask, “How can this post get me banned?” If so, then you obviously didn’t need to include this line. If you didn’t, then you shouldn’t have posted in the first place.
If users want a particular type of community, then users should act in a way to facilitate it. Mods alone can’t do that. Mods, at most, can define and enforce the limits of what’s acceptable. But if posters routinely act in unacceptable ways, then they shouldn’t get mad when mods routinely enforce those limits.