Truth be told, this doesn’t change much, but I’d still like to make it official.
As of about 17 days ago, I have stepped down as the head mod of 196 on both this platform and lemmy.world. I will be yielding that title to the much more qualified Qaz, who’s been functionally in charge for quite a while now.
Despite what you may think, I make this choice really only for one reason: I don’t have nearly enough spare time in my life to be consistently available enough to be head mod.
What does this change/what does this mean?
To be honest, pretty much nothing for all of you. I’ve barely been available for the past however many months it’s been, and in that time the community has been run exclusively by Qaz and the rest of the team.
All that you’ll see changed is that Qaz will at times be the one that makes an announcement, and Qaz is now the only person that can make moderatorial decisions (bans, ect) without checking with the rest of the team (a power reserved for head mod).
I’ll still be around. I’m still a mod, I’ll still do announcements at times, and the rules post will most likely stay as my account, but from now on, Qaz gets the final say, not me.
I banned Stamets a couple times over the last year for posting an anti-trans meme and a different instance of not tagging NSFW. Stamets is a repeat offender, hence the ban from Moss. Banning people for not tagging NSFW is in the stated rules. Repeat offenders are held to a higher standard. The “trolling” tag was because they plainly refused to tag the post.
I might buy that for Stamets but not necessarily for the other people who commented in that thread. Some of those people had very illegitimate bans indeed.
It’s in the modlog, you don’t need to take my word for it.
We have an email people can reach out to. We all have access to it so we can keep each other accountable. If anyone feels that they’ve been unfairly banned, they can reach out to the email and a mod unrelated to the ban will address it. We’ve let go of a mod in the past for unfairly banning people, it’s not like we’re going to defend each other for no reason. We’re a team, sure, but my justice-flavored autism isn’t going to hold that relationship over doing the right thing.
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No. Not this. I’ve never posted anything transphobic to this community in my life and my modlog backs me up on that. I have no idea why the hell you seem to hate me so much that you lie about why you banned me.
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Okay, I’ve taken a look and so far I’ve seen the following.
You were never banned (except for one time being banned by moss), but Peachy did remove several posts from you. One of those removed posts was an “anti-trans meme” (probably not intended by you this way) and a different instance of you not tagging NSFW. I believe you when you say you never posted anything transphobic, but it certainly seems like the meme has transphobic elements. It starts with saying “you will never be a real mushroom” (“you will never be a real woman”). It also says the subject never will have spores (reference to trans woman missing “real” genitals). Furthermore, it finishes with “You are a small kitten twisted by fabric and wool into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection”, which is very close to things like “You are a man with a dress and implants and a crude mockery of nature’s perfection”. This might seem far-fetched, but each line is extremely similar to common transphobic sayings.
So, enough meme analysis and talk about the things you’ve said:
So this is false, but I can understand why you might have thought that because those removals were on blahaj and you might have checked the logs for lemmy.world
Peachy didn’t say you were “being transphobic”, they said they removed an “anti-trans meme”, which is true.
I hope you can see why a mod who sees someone posting a (to some) blatantly obvious transphobic meme, later sees them not marking a post as NSFW, is unlikely to see their side of the issue when they later complain about a ban. I can understand that you’re upset (rightfully so, I don’t think the ban was justified) and have no interest in participating in this community going forward, but we’re not making things up.
So Stamets was lying and saying Peachy was lying. What a shock, projection from the bigots.
Yes. You are making shit up and I don’t have the energy or patience to bother explaining it to you.
I’m just done with this entire website being a carbon copy of reddit. Even you mods do the same shit and either stretch the truth or outright lie.
I also kept saying I’ve never been banned and you start talking about removals. Yes dude. You’re making shit up. I have no interest in dealing with LEMMY at this point either because of this garbage from mods like you and behavior from everyone else.
Have fun dude. I’m not staying around a place with people lying about me and what has happened in order to protect their own fragile fucking ego.
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This is a complete and utter lie.
You have never banned me from this community. I have exactly one ban from this community and it was done by moss. I have also had one removal from this community. That was over an NSFW post. I disagreed that it was NSFW which is why I ended up deleting that post.
I do not, however, appreciate you outright fucking lying about me. I do not appreciate you ever saying that I have ever posted transphobic ANYTHING. You want to say whatever else about me? Fine. But you have literally no evidence of ever banning me for being transphobic because it never happened. The modlogs are public. I’d recommend you check them before making shit up about people or ‘misremembering’ shit about them.
Maybe remove Stamets being a whiney troll about having their transphobia removed.