I'd like to report mod activity that's not following sitewide rules on your server and instead bans people because they feel it's not worth their time. I would like for the mod to be overlooked.
The sitewide rule #1 says I can expect to participate without harassment and feel welcome. If I call a mod to look over a user breaking this rule, I should expect them to intervene, right?
So I don't understand why @[email protected] is deleting all my comments and banning me instead of the person being aggressive towards me because "both sides of the argument are nonsense" without even bothering with the actual concern. I didn't call them over to look at anyone's argument, I specifically stated in my report that the other person was being extremely disrespectful.
So now I'm banned:
Banned
Lemminary from the community Curated [email protected]
reason: troll
expires: in 30 days
Their excuse? I'm a troll, apparently. I invite anyone to check the messages to see if that's true or if I'm merely sharing my opinion.
I don't care about the ban--keep it that way. But please let me know if something is being done about these mods who enjoy pushing people around. It's infuriating that on top of being dog-piled on, berated & insulted in the thread all day (I got links), I also get treated this way by the people who have taken on the role of protecting users. If I hit the report button, I entrust the person in charge to keep a level head and do their job fairly.
Thank you for your time.
As self-appointed arbiter of the truth, I don't think OP was trolling. I think OP responded negatively to a wholesome post, and even though their position is justified, that's going to receive a backlash of some size.
At that point the fatal mistake was trying to respond to the backlash, because the people responding to OP were definitely being condescending internet arguers, so...
In the end, partial responsibility to OP for being negative on a wholesome post, regardless of justification, then partial responsibility to the repliers for being tactless about it, then after that it becomes everyone's fault as they roll around in the mud together.
In my defense, I wasn't trying to be negative and I didn't think I was being at the time. But thank you for trying to keep it impartial.
I can understand that. Just as well, I don't believe you deserved to be banned, strictly for that exchange of comments. You guys weren't being nice to each other, for certain, but in the realm of people being mean to each other on the internet that was about a 3 or 4 out of a possible 10 in intensity.
In the future just ask yourself if something you posted could make someone else upset, particularly someone invested or related to something you're talking about negatively or are dismissing. I think it should be okay to express that, but understand that it may hurt some feelings, and people may become upset with you. Don't give it back to them and sink to that level.
Which is weird because the person I reported was at about a 7 and I'm the one who got clapped. They even edited their comment after to tone it down but I got the full brunt of of it without consequences.
I always do. But in this particular thread, I think the main culprit was a clash of spiritual/fundamental views of the world that seemed to ruffle feathers since I got a fair share of feisty replies right from the start that weren't necessarily responding to my tone until much later. My demeanor alone doesn't explain why I was suddenly the Big Bad Wolf in the thread. It's not the first time I get clowned on for expressing a different pov, but that's fine.