I tend to browse /All and by New on Lemmy. I went to respond on a thread on !vegan@lemmy.world to thank someone for a recipe that looked good, and found out I had been banned.
Odd, considering I hadn’t posted to that sub at any point in the past. I checked the modlog to find that “Mod” had banned a bunch of people citing “Rule 5.”
Their Rule 5 states: Bad-faith carnist rhetoric & anti-veganism are not allowed, as this is not a space to debate the merits of veganism. Anyone is welcome here, however, and so good-faith efforts to ask questions about veganism may be given their own weekly stickied post in the future (see current stickied discussion).
I (and hundreds of others) seemingly broke rule 5 of this community without ever posting there. What is going on?
And my apologies if this isn’t the place for this, but I had no idea where else to post the question.
Holy hell! It’s over 19 pages long, and that’s over the past day. They even went as far as trying to ban admins.
Edit: it looks like they only tried to ban one admin. I thought I had saw more, but I guess not. But damn, talk about sour grapes.
It’s all also done by a one single moderator, a same one that was complaining about the “carnists brigading” in the community. There was a handful of comments deleted along with more than 300 users banned.
That one moderator has just downvoted every comment here and is likely responsible for the single downvote on this post.
mOr bAns?!
Edit: Aww shit! Two downvotes! Popcorn time!
I wonder if it’s the same user who has almost exclusively dominated the front page of the sub with memes in the last day or so. Going back a couple pages, there was a lot more variety and nuance in the content. Subject matter notwithstanding, it looks like someone terminally online going on a power trip.
Yep, same person
“the first amendment holds” lol, I wasn’t aware Lemmy was part of the US government
Removed by mod
It’s doubly stupid because LW is construed and governed by Dutch, German, and Finnish laws. Not United-Statian ones.
There’s a lot more to the story on Rooki.