Hello I’m not a person who is affected by this community moderator but I’m posting on behalf of people who are, since they don’t seem to know of this community yet. I attempted to reach some via DM but I’m not sure they’ll respond. So I’m making this post since I feel this needs to be addressed.

Recently I was made aware of a community that appeared randomly on Lemmy.world. It seems to be a troll community given the type of content, but the reason I’m posting about it here specifically is that this mod seems to be banning anyone who points this out or goes against his narrative. Furthermore he is only using the autoremove on ban function, not removing any content the users have posted, which I believe is deliberate in attempt to prevent the content from showing up under the modlog and revealing the hypocrisy.

Some samples of comments:

Comment from: @[email protected]

Everything else you posted has been pretty cringe but what he fuck is up with this one, dude lol

comment from: @[email protected]

free software is SLOWING DOWN tech advancement??? WHAT???

comment from: @[email protected]

i genuinely do not understand your point

comment from: @[email protected]

First off, nice new community. I look forward to days of quality posts such as this./s

Second, how many Linux distros have this level of data collection, and what is their estimated market share?

Original comment link

All of these were retrieved from the API, even though they aren’t included in the modlogs, I could’ve included more but it’s kind of a time consuming process to look for them and retrieve them. Viewing removed comments is easier on Lemmy than it is on Reddit but it still isn’t easy.

What do you guys think, does this seem like power-tripping? Also does this person’s content seem like blatant troll content?

CC: @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

People who’s comments I mentioned, I CCed them so they know I did this on their behalf

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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    2 years ago

    This is an example of a community I don’t subscribe to, because I’m not the target demographic.

    I think a Linux sucks community should exist, it can exist, and if the moderator wants to remove anything about Linux not sucking that’s fine too. The way this moderator is doing it, they should just turn on mod only posting.

    I looked at the community sidebar, and one of the community rules is no promoting Linux, no defending Linux, so at least it’s consistent

    Lemmy needs a diverse set of voices.

    Counterexample: if I go into fuck cars and talk about vehicles in any positive fashion, I’m going to get dog piled and probably banned

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’ve had run-ins with Linuxsucks’ owner and basically only poster over on linuxmemes. They’re a troll, a contrarian, uninterested in any kind of honest or good-faith discussion, and an overall dickhead. The community is a one-man circlejerk.

      You’re right about needing counterpoints, but Linuxsucks ain’t it.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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        2 years ago

        I think he basically only made it because he somehow thought that if he had his own community his memes wouldn’t get as heavily downvoted, as they do on [email protected] though they’re pretty wrong about that. Pretty much all but one of their posts there on linuxsucks are getting downvoted heavily.

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      2 years ago

      Agreed [email protected] is a far superior community in so many ways, best part of all though, they’re not tolerant of slur usage. Which is more than I can say about the one I mentioned in the main post unfortunately.

        • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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          2 years ago

          Where did you get the idea we were “freeze peach”? I’m certainly not, nor are most people here. Most of us very firmly believe in the idea that certain types of speech is absolutely unacceptable, after all when the intolerant are tolerated, tolerance dies.

          I don’t know where you got the idea that we’re free speech advocates or how you thought that was at all relevant to this discussion. FYI most Lemmy instances aren’t free speech advocates, and do firmly believe in moderation of unacceptable speech, which does often includes tolling, disinformation, and bigotry (including homophobia, transphobia, racism, ableism, etc.).

          Maybe it’s probably a good idea not to make such assumptions about people or places, since you end up making an ass out of yourself when you do, and potentially exposing your beliefs when you might not want to.

          Archived Link containing your comment just in case you delete it: https://archive.ph/gIDOg