@nutomic@lemmy.ml, a site administrator of lemmy.ml, banned @soferman@lemmy.ml from !worldnews@lemmy.ml. The reason they gave is:

because of your hostile behaviour there. This is something I should have done long ago. The main reason I didnt is that I didnt want to give the impression that you were targeted because of our political disagreements. But the fact is that you are causing too much trouble.

The ban announcement can be found here.

soferman created a post about the question if their ban is justified in !asklemmy@lemmy.ml. They deleted it after I asked them to, because deletion hides the post from front pages but it’s still accessible for review.

    • j0ta
      51·
      3 years ago

      He wouldn’t stop he/she was warned enought times

          • soronixa
            2·
            3 years ago

            personally the only problem I have with the ban is its timing, if soferman was banned because of bad faith arguements I would be ok with it, but they were banned because of this comment which I think isn’t reason enough to ban someone. soferman had already become much less hostile.

          • HelixOPM
            1·
            3 years ago

            This is the comment linking to Nutomic’s warning and then explanation for the ban: https://lemmy.ml/post/68454/comment/58527

            Which I already linked. Did you click the links in the comment?

            Other instances of what I would consider gaslighting and/or arguing in bad faith: https://lemmy.ml/post/67737/comment/57096 https://lemmy.ml/post/67740/comment/57195

            … or they could just be dumb, uneducated or polemic in those instances. I think you don’t know what gaslighting is. It’s when you tell someone that what you or they said, heard or saw isn’t what actually happened. If you didn’t see it, you should watch the original movie and/or a theatric play. I understood the nuances of gaslighting way better afterwards; Gaslight is an exceptional piece of psychoeducational art.

            In this instance we can read what happened, soferman doesn’t deny having made these claims and the comments aren’t edited, though, so I don’t really see gaslighting. I just see a kid who doesn’t nuance their opinion. Don’t attribute to malice what could equally be explained with stupidity. And keep in mind that everyone is stupid at least at some point in their lives.

      • HelixOPM
        2·
        3 years ago

        This sounds like a reasonable thing to do. Try to keep it as factual as possible and please don’t open the third thread about this drama.

          • HelixOPM
            11·
            3 years ago

            long post on it

            I hope you don’t open a new post for it, but post it as comment instead. Maybe just below your initial comment here. Or maybe in one of the other existing comment threads about this.

              • HelixOPM
                12·
                3 years ago

                This thread right here is NOT in soferman’s defense. It’s a discussion about the ban, which, in my opinion, was unjustified. I specifically created a separate comment with my own opionion so that other people could add their own. I only put facts in the opening post, without bringing my own opinion in. If you think it’s a good idea to create even more drama to drive people away from Lemmy, feel free.