I’m gonna get real with you folks, we’ve had way too many of these posts recently. I’ve been reflecting on this topic a lot the past few days. For me personally, I couldn’t care less about my gender identity. But just because that’s true for me, doesn’t make that true for everyone.
The beauty of the fediverse is that if you don’t like the way a particular instance or community is moderated you can simply choose another to hang out on, or create your own.
Blajah has made it pretty clear by now they will ban anyone who argues against the validity of xenogenders, in order to create a safe space for those folks. That’s fair enough imo.
Safe spaces should be respected, and Blajah’s admins/mods do not deserve abuse for creating and maintaining those spaces.
I can completely understand why Blajah users don’t want to have to constantly argue with external users about the validity of their chosen identities. Bans are one way Blajah has decided to manage that problem so that their users can experience lemmy in relative peace and safety. While it is a blunt tool and I have my reservations about preemptive bans, there are not many other options for @[email protected], other than defederation from most instances. That would be a terrible outcome for the fediverse as a whole.
In order to help Blajah to maintain their safe space, I would like to propose, if @[email protected] agrees and community sentiment is positive:
- that we no longer accept posts about this topic in this community; and
- we also remove previous posts on this topic from the community.
That’s all folks, have at 'er.
I’m very open about banning easily. I have no qualms about it. If I think you’re a troll, you’re gone. I’ll own to being a power tripping bastard. I’ll take that over trolling any day.
BTW, I usually do temp bans in case I make a mistake. If it was permanent, then I was pretty sure.
It wasn’t permanent. It was actually funny, I was just asking.
Were you the one where we were joking around? Sorry, there’s no tagging system and I don’t remember names completely.
I was earnestly suggesting that I thought Tony Hinchcliffe might be trolling the Republican party, and that his standup when viewed from a different angle, was a complete roast of all their own talking points.
But you disagreed deeply, and thought I was trolling.
Being a mod sucks, have I mentioned that lately? I make mistakes, which is why I give temp bans. Sorry if I made a mistake. Sometimes, jokes, trolling and me having a bad day aren’t easy to differentiate.
The whole thread was pretty heated IIRC, so it’s fine. Like I said, it was kind of funny the way it happened, anyway.
I was really tempted to ban you for a week from [email protected]. I had the curl command typed out and everything. Take that!
That community looks very, very boring. I highly doubt I would ever have commented there.
thatsthejoke.jpeg
deleted by creator
Nah, no they don’t. The trolling throughout the world has caused unbelievable harm to our country and others. We have a dictator rapist as our president right now because dumb people are being trolled and our media is owned by billionaires. Sorry about your pain, but that has nothing to do with this.