@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.
No I cannot do that. There are a bunch of threads now in soferman’s defense, berating the admin’s decision and the thoughts behind it, which a lot of people are clearly not aware of. People should be aware of both sides of the story, because this fellow acts in an oversmart manner.
I have met fellows like this one, so I am not worried about myself but for Lemmy, and so I will put myself on the frontlines.
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that’s not deescalating things and irrelevant to the discussion.
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I understand, but you could’ve stayed where you jumped to. Not saying you should censor yourself. I, too, have a problem with staying away from conflict. I saw that I am not able to reasonably discuss things with @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml, so I’ll try to stay away from them, or at least not actively engage them or comment their posts from now on to not waste any more of my time. It’d be easier if Lemmy had an ‘ignore’ feature which hid all of their posts but still showed they posted. I was on a forum once where this kind of function replaced their comment texts with ‘this comment has been hidden because you ignored user xy.’ with two links to show the comment or un-ignore them.
No, not to me, but to Lemmy community. And as you can see, I am a very old adopter of Lemmy, and have been trying to bring a change in the privacy community for a year and a half.
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.
There is nothing discussing soferman’s history yet. If you want to defend their blatant curveballs on the moderation, feel free to do so. I will do my thing, you do yours.