before i made an account, i reached out to the chief admin of lemmy.dbzer0.com

i was recently banned during a discussion on the validity of a claim regarding the consensus about the safety of a vegan diet:

and, if you bother to go find that discussion, you’ll find that, in fact, my interlocutor did become incivil. i did report that. and somehow, my discussion and the subsequent report were the basis of a ban.

it was less than 2 hours. it’s almost not worth discussing.

but given my pre-application discussion, i felt strongly that my conduct is within the bounds of the acceptable use of the instance. so if my conduct is not within the acceptable use, that means i basically cant use my account(s) as i planned and under the terms which i agreed.

db0 has said he doesn’t want to be the benevolent dictator for life, and has specifically both recused himself from ruling on my conduct and encouraged me to post here and in [email protected] (though i’m still holding off on that for now).

so, did i deserve it? power tripping bastard? what do you think?

  • NSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
    312·
    3 days ago

    so when people become abusive, I’m just supposed to tolerate that?

    my goal isn’t to goad. I leave plenty of comments where I simply correct the misinformation, and there is never any followup. which is great because now anyone reading those comments knows something closer to the truth.

    and since the governance of communities does, as a practical matter, require mod or admin action, how else am I supposed to deal with the abusive behavior?

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
      191·
      3 days ago

      You can always tell them that you don’t like how they’re interacting with you and disengage. People will get upset at your opinions of veganism, but being upset isn’t “abuse”.

      One could do the same pattern of behaviour with anti-Trans essentialist arguments and “just asking questions”, and then report Trans allies who get upset at it. most trans/ally mods would ban someone doing this tactic for it, but liberal mods might end up banning the other party for “incivility”.

      • NSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
        211·
        3 days ago

        I suppose I can try that, but it’s common for people to double down on misinformation in a comment where they start hurling invectives.

        I’m instance shopping, but if this is the standard for behavior on your instance I can abide that til I find a new home.

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
          11·
          3 days ago

          So? Let them be upset then. If you’ve made a good case for yourself that it got them upset, others will understand why you had to disengage. Just use the “disengage” rule if you don’t want then just having the last word.