Lol, fuck this shit.
Srsly tho, why were they banned? What did they actually do/say?
The reason I saw given in the mod log is just the Dr. Manhattan quote from Watchmen. *I am tired of these people…"
I saw a user who appeared to be an admin comment that same quote in a thread. Obviously can’t know if it’s the same user and I won’t call out who it is to preserve the anonymity the mods want as much as I think I should (if I could see that coincidence, others can).
But yeah. Let’s ban one of the most prolific users. I think I saw them arguing with a vegan user so I guess they’re another casualty of this struggle. Or maybe they asked for it as a joke?
No idea. I’m fascinated by all this drama honestly, but I’ll probably need a break from this myself as it doesn’t look like it will be slowing down and the admins look to be digging their heels in from the PR post
Edit: As much as Dash contributed as a dev, they chose to surround their exit in the struggle drama and talk down to the users who didn’t share their opinion. congressbasebalfan could have refrained from commenting, but I don’t see where a line was crossed that hasn’t been crossed by many other users this week that didn’t happen to be replying to mods/devs. It’s not ban worthy. Just remove the comment if you want
Is there any public reason for the mod log being anonymous? Seems like it’s just so the mods don’t have any accountability if they’re acting like shitheads.
I think people were getting harassed and maybe potentially doxxed. Dunno if the practice was started after the Beatnik saga or before.
So I kinda get it. But at the same time, it’s not shocking there is some mistrust following a decision to remove transparency
I just think you should have to have better reasons for justifying banning. I’ve seen lots of users go down in the past week where I thought the ban was maybe an overreaction
I’m going back to bed. Hopefully shit is sorted when I wake up again. No idea what’s happening, it’s 8am and I’m having a bad pain day. So back to bed it is. Holy shit so many mods are quitting, so many users are leaving, fuck what happened when I went to bed.
I don’t know all my favourite mods/admins and users are leaving, being banned or something else. Wtf.
This is fucking infuriating. Site is actively falling apart.
Of all the ways I thought would lead to this site falling apart, handing it over to a circlejerk sub was not one of them.
i think having exactly 2 disciplinary actions available to mods, deleting posts or permabanning users, has forced this place to become more and more like a dysfunctional leftbook group. we can bounce back though probably, if we (mods and users) learn from this.
This. Dash put his fucking soul into this site. Fuck everyone who insulted the guy on his way out.
Just acknowledge everything he did for you and let him say his peace. Don’t thrown more shit at him on the way out. It’s basic fucking decency. It’s basic fucking humanity.
Considering the mod log, what they’ve been posting in this thread and what they’ve been posting megathread, I’m like 80% sure it’s u/liberal banning them for being rude to Dash. I disagree with their rudeness to dash, but the ban is catastrophic.
