That’s basically what this community is for, tho.

But it’s not though. It’s to hold people accountable for abusive behavior as a moderator/admin.

This is a community in the spirit of “Am I The Asshole” where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not. Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

I still feel like a dick for the part that I played in this. I didn’t want to brigade him. I didn’t want to bully him. I just wanted to make a post that called out his terrible moderation style in this moment. Keep seeing people who are like commenting bro on random things of his and that’s not what I want of this social platform. People can make mistakes and people can disagree. People can fuck up. The problem is when they double down and insist that they have nothing wrong with that and continue to do the same thing. If this dude continues to do the same thing over and over again, then yeah, I stand by the position that he is a terrible person to be in charge of community. However, he has done this on one occasion so far. Granted, he did a bunch of stupid shit in this one moment, but stress can have that happen to a person. I don’t blame him for this entirely. People are allowed to make mistakes. Maybe he made one. But if everybody keeps dogs piling on him and making this worse for him, it’s not going to allow him to see this in any way other than him being bullied. And to be honest, in a certain extent, that will be a correct way of seeing this. I want people to be able to learn from mistakes and grow and be better. I can’t say I always do that, and I definitely make a ton of mistakes. But I want to treat this dude how I would hope people would treat me. None of my comments here show me wanting to go after this dude any more than just calling this behavior out. I didn’t even recommend anything happen. This wasn’t like Jordan, where I was like, oh my god, did this guy must be gone! It was just, hey look, this behavior is suspect.

That being said, I haven’t looked into this guy any further than this. I don’t know what else is going on, but I don’t want my one single post to be a reason for him being bullied over the word Bro. Since making this post, I’ve heard a couple of different complaints about them, but nothing I’ve heard has been extremely egregious, just maybe a bit of a dick occasionally. Maybe that shows a pattern where maybe he needs somebody else to help him out or maybe he shouldn’t be in charge of a community or whatever else But giving him shit over the word bro here and banning me from a community for 74 years that I will never comment in again anyway?

But from the one experience that I’ve had, I don’t want people going around bullying this guy and giving him this level of shit from this one event. I want this place to be better than Reddit, not a clone.

And now I go back to begging for money because my life is its own misery filled wasteland.

I’m blown away by this petty behavior.

I’ve seen mods do that all the time on Lemmy but the thing that I’ve never seen was DMing them specifically to say don’t downvote me or else.

If dude is threatening people over his own perception of a word… then yeah. He’s crashing out.

Also didn’t really put two and two together that he was that AtomicPoet. Jesus. This is even more sad then.

For real. Just as a recap…

1. Threatened to ban unless you agreed with him

2. Banned for disagreeing

3. Banned for downvoting

4. Threatening a banning for downvoting him

5. Banned for screenshots of messages

6. But isn’t a fascist

I’ve been accused of having a heavy presence on Lemmy. It’s no where near as heavy as some other peoples and has died off in the past few months (although I am getting back into gear). But my presence is on another side of Lemmy, not so much the news. So this very much is one “face” of lemmy.world (God I sound so arrogant) looking at another and saying “Why am I attached to the same body as you?” while actively considering a transplant.

So even faces on the same instance are staring at each other like “What the utter fuck?”