No reason given in modlog, just permaban.
My only comment there in the past week or more:
I messaged the lone active mod politely asking if there had been a mistake or what the reason was, but have not received a reply despite them making multiple posts since.
Sucks, I’ve blocked the .world news comms and had been using this one since pretty much the beginning. Now this bullshit comes along.
I can understand that, but that’s where communication should come into play. As a mod they should be reaching out to warn or express their concerns, not reaching directly for the nuclear option. And on top of that ignoring my (polite) attempt at deescalation and clarification.
(I didn’t downvote you, btw)
Communication probably could happen, but you’re not the first nor last person they have to deal with. Who knows you might be the 100th person they banned for similar comments from real bigots. The probability that you aren’t could be slim to none and not worth the hassle to them.
It shouldn’t be always up to them to communicate to you, it should be equally up to you to be educated on the comments and greater meaning of the comments you post (the dog whistle phrase).
Expecting every last person to be up to date on whatever nonsense the far right is pulling is unrealistic. Do you Google every phase you utter to make sure it doesn’t have another meaning to some group? This is just more of the left eating the left as usual.
Personally my first thought on reading a comment like that is “bigot” and then I block them. Not really anything to do with the far right.
Venn diagram of the 2 is basically a circle… :)
Expecting every mod to send a “hey buddy, you made a meanie head comment, plz no” is unrealistic when they have much more important things to do and their own damn lives. If 95% of people who say that dog whistle mean it, why the fuck should he think you’re an exception to that, race off to tend you and give you a forehead kiss and tell you he’s sowwie?
They could add a few words for the ban reason. “Mocking inclusive acronymns” would have been a good reason.
Well for one thing, it’s NOT a dog whistle in Asia, so that’s a pretty fucking big part of the global population. You’re taking western cultural quirks and assuming the entire world is familiar with them.
I’ll read this, as if you’rnt educated on netiqutte. I am aware of my privileges, so I am olive branching. Heck, given that my wife had to “whoop a libie” a day ago, I may make this a !whatever@quokk.au essay.
Now, this is a blatant wolfsgeheul. Please educate yourself.
Only reply to me back, when you have read these 3 pamphlets. Otherwise, we really don’t have to interact.
You’re severely overestimating your value if you think anybody’s going to read 3 pamphlets before they can talk to you.
OK?
I left quokk.au because of the constant drama and bullshit like this, and the dumb anarchists flotilla stuff.
It’s the internet man and the mod is some guy doing it for free. He has to face down 100 idiots like you a day probably and I don’t begrudge him for not being caring about it.
I have replied to your message like an hour ago
Hey Deceptichum! Long time no see, I thought you had left.
I’m honestly not seeing any reply in my message inbox, weirdly. Do DMs get federation issues?
I lurk once a month or two, but I got told to see this thread as I’m the one who did the ban.
Not sure why you’re not getting it, might be a software or instance issue. I saw your testing message however, so it’s coming through fine form your end.
As for the ban it was reported but also because I found it m pretty deragotory sounding towards both queer and First Nations people. If it was genuinely not intended that way and rather poor choice of words, I’m happy to unban.
I’m an ally so no, it is definitely not intended that way. Rather, I found it slightly ridiculous because my mind was connecting it with 99% SLAs, in addition to its obvious unwieldiness for general usage. I’m not aware of its use as a dog whistle and can attest it’s a fairly common opinion in Asia, even among those of the lgbt persuasion. Something that I find crops up as an issue fairly regularly online - a lot of moderation doesn’t take into account that many users have a very different culture where they live.
@quokka@quokk.au, you wanna check it out? Possibility that messaging is broken on pylova