nsrxn

doesn't mean they feel pain

can you link this?

I suppose I can try that, but it's common for people to double down on misinformation in a comment where they start hurling invectives.

I'm instance shopping, but if this is the standard for behavior on your instance I can abide that til I find a new home.

so when people become abusive, I'm just supposed to tolerate that?

my goal isn't to goad. I leave plenty of comments where I simply correct the misinformation, and there is never any followup. which is great because now anyone reading those comments knows something closer to the truth.

and since the governance of communities does, as a practical matter, require mod or admin action, how else am I supposed to deal with the abusive behavior?

this isn't what you banned for, and I think it's inappropriate. this smacks of poisoning the well.

the clarity I'm looking for would say how often you plan to ban me, how long I can expect those bans to be, and what you will ban me for.

I never asked for extra leeway. I never thought I had any kind of agreement with db0 other than a shared understanding of the acceptable use policy. now you have some say in the interpretation of that policy, and you disagree with what was previously understood.

I know we can't all agree about everything, but there needs to be some clarity about what is acceptable, and what isn't.

and it's a two way street. capricious moderation isn't acceptable to me. if that's what I can expect, then I will have to go somewhere else.

I would not characterize my conduct as trolling. the restriction given by db0 to avoid going into liberal (or, implicitly, vegan) spaces and stirring the pot is one that didn't honestly need to be voiced. I like to discuss particular topics, but I am respectful of the rules of communities.

but if, as this is the case, someone is spreading outdated information in a climate community, and I correct them, and they violate the rules of that community, and I report that community rule violation, that is not trolling as I see it.

edit: if my conduct is not acceptable, this implies correcting misinformation should be discouraged, as should reporting community or remote instance rule violations. that I should let misinformation go unchallenged, or accept abusive behavior for correcting it, or both. I don't think that is the standard we should be setting.

so, one of us is mistaken about whether my conduct is acceptable. but which of us is it?