Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on here. Looks like a mod having a breakdown. I posted the rest for context and I’m in the middle.
I got linked to the comment chain from elsewhere. The comment had a link to a tech dude’s blog, supposed to point out his white supremecism. I didn’t see anything bad in that article, but stumbled on another one with nazi apologia, thought they may have linked the wrong article, posted it. That’s it. That’s all I did.
I guess it is called awful.systems and the culture confuses me, but man, what a dick move to call me a facist in the modlog.
If nothing else, I hope this drama is entertaining.
Edit: Because this is, well, the internet: I was not defending DHH. Another removed/banned comment said they couldn’t find anything bad in that link either, so I found one where DHH was being more blatant in his bullshit.
A.S Has a very itchy ban finger generally and often assumes everyone is as knowledgeable as them so they tend to see behavior like yours as deliberate trolling (or in your case, likely crypto-fascism). It’s really the sort of place one needs to “lurk moar” before interacting. I personally don’t like how hostile their instance treats people stumbling in, because it often causes drama and false positives like this, but OTOH this allows them to run a tight ship and not have to deal with cryptofash and libertarian shite which can be exhausting.
Ultimately it is what it is and A.S has a tiny impact on the threadiverse relatively. Other than that I agree that it’s not cool to label people fascists at the drop of a hat in the modlog but perhaps their admins will pop in and explain if they saw actual fash behaviour.
I can see that, and thanks for the explanation. I clicked around a bit after to double-check rules and see if I got the context wrong. But yeah, seems like it was my inexperience with the community and aggressive modding.
awful.systems is a perfect case study of a community dedicated to bullying outsiders and senseless tribalism. I wouldn’t really even give it a second thought as far as your own behavior or whatever inexperience; I got banned from there for saying something objectively correct (I don’t even remember the context), which they interpreted as being “pro-AI” which is grounds for a permaban in their value system. There is no winning with them unless you are part of the echo chamber.