I think it’s obvious I’ve thought a lot about this, if you have any context outside of these couple of comments here.
In fact, I could easily be missing additional context. I’ve always said I’m open to new evidence and changing my mind and opinion on that basis.
Which if you’ve been noticing this user at all, you would have a lot more context…
That’s probably it. I haven’t really put in the time and effort to follow this user around, see what he was posting in his own communities, etc.
Mods addressed it here, for example.
That I saw and responded to. For the record, I stated that
I agree with this.
That being the case, let’s dig in to see where between the two of us, where we actually disagree.
In any case, the mods/admins finally decided that they agree with the extremely popular opinion you’re taking issue with.
Their stated reason is a little confusing, because they mention dms specifically.
I’ve been on the receiving end of that several times actually. Just a couple nights ago they were dming me
In fact this is an example of context that I can’t see. For whatever reason that user didn’t bother with me so I was unaware of this until folks starting mentioning it happening in the post reporting the first ban. I definitely agree that this is inappropriate and permaban worthy.
the extremely popular opinion you’re taking issue with.
Again, for the record, the opinion that I took issue with was that evidence showed this was a bot account or a shared account. I can’t rule out that this is in fact the case, but I still don’t see the evidence for it. Instead, it looks to me that this was a guy who got a permaban because he was too much of a jerk and couldn’t be civil, leading him to eventually cross the line and break the TOS.
So I suspect after the influx of complaints they got, they almost had trouble even picking a specific explanation.
To me it seems the two bans were done by different folks (mods of a magazine vs admins of the instance) and had different reasons and evidence (temp ban in a magazine for duplicate post rule violation - for which your script, in identifying duplicates, would have been extremely helpful - vs permaban on the instance for violations in DMs - for which only the instance admins could confirm and verify).
Also worth repeating: I don’t disagree with either ban (though with the DMs I don’t have the knowledge or context, but I’m good with trusting the instance admins of lemmy.world in this case). I just believe the reasoning is different.
The dude was 100% trying to piss people off and succeeded many, many, thousands of times.
That again dives into the context that I didn’t have, like the DMs.
Looking at some of their threads, the trolling type behavior seemed directed at users who were already fairly antagonistic to them to begin with, then it turned in to trolling back and forth all the way down.
Which doesn’t justify it, but also explains why I’ve interacted a lot with that user and only once felt trolled. The user tried to be a mirror and reflect back what was given. Which is not appropriate social behaviour, but if we’re banning a user for that reason, we should be open about it.
The only other “trolling” they did just seemed to be being anti-Democratic when a lot of people don’t like that
If this was /c/democrats, that could definitely be considered trolling, but /c/politics isn’t organized as a fan club.
Now, I don’t mind if /m/politics becomes /c/democrats - I’m a lifelong democrat myself. But I also feel we should be open about these things. I shouldn’t be banned from /m/conservatives because of a hidden rule that I wasn’t not liberal enough in loving a universal basic income, for example.
Yeah this a wall of text. To be honest I can’t really spend my already limited time reading 15 paragraphs from someone who ignores relevant points I raise.
In this case, I addressed the ban reason given, and yet you try to argue more about it as though I didn’t. If you cared about more than disputing me, you might see that this was probably death by a million paper cuts.
TLDR to save you from a wall of text - we seem to agree on at least 99% and I’m not even sure what we’re disagreeing about anymore.
you might see that this was probably death by a million paper cuts.
Yes, I can easily see that being the case for that user.
Yeah this a wall of text. To be honest I can’t really spend my already limited time reading 15 paragraphs from someone who ignores relevant points I raise.
False premise? If you read it you’d have seen that I did not ignore those points but either agreed with or responded to each of them. Edit: So, while I certainly have no right to tell you what you should do with your time, perhaps it’s still possible that you can find a way to spend your “already limited time reading 15 paragraphs from someone [who acknowledges] relevant points” that you raised.
In this case, I addressed the ban reason given, and yet you try to argue more about it as though I didn’t.
So this is a bit odd. I disagreed with Monk on a lot, but I never felt that his responses to me ever became uncordial.
Between you and me, it sounds like we maybe agree on 95% or 99% of the points. And yet, somehow this convo seems to be the one taking a more unfriendly turn.
Anyways, I wasn’t arguing about the ban reason but attempting clarify that I was speaking against one particular thing w/o disagreeing with the rest.
If you cared about more than disputing me,
Sorry, I have a second wall of text you’d have to read. But in that I list out a lot of the different things I care about, and also the why.
Edit: I guess one might also ask why I spent so much time discussing this with you. Well, in fact, you’re exactly the type of person that the fediverse needs to be encouraging. Your script was useful, and I’m sure you’ll come up with many more greater and brilliant things as you spend more time on the fediverse. Basically, the fediverse needs you and more folks like you, so I was trying to turn around an engagement that might have started off the wrong foot around into a more positive one.
In fact, I could easily be missing additional context. I’ve always said I’m open to new evidence and changing my mind and opinion on that basis.
That’s probably it. I haven’t really put in the time and effort to follow this user around, see what he was posting in his own communities, etc.
That I saw and responded to. For the record, I stated that
That being the case, let’s dig in to see where between the two of us, where we actually disagree.
I hope you can see the contradiction between your two statements. User was banned because of harassing DMs as per the modlog you referenced, https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=9454261
In fact this is an example of context that I can’t see. For whatever reason that user didn’t bother with me so I was unaware of this until folks starting mentioning it happening in the post reporting the first ban. I definitely agree that this is inappropriate and permaban worthy.
Again, for the record, the opinion that I took issue with was that evidence showed this was a bot account or a shared account. I can’t rule out that this is in fact the case, but I still don’t see the evidence for it. Instead, it looks to me that this was a guy who got a permaban because he was too much of a jerk and couldn’t be civil, leading him to eventually cross the line and break the TOS.
To me it seems the two bans were done by different folks (mods of a magazine vs admins of the instance) and had different reasons and evidence (temp ban in a magazine for duplicate post rule violation - for which your script, in identifying duplicates, would have been extremely helpful - vs permaban on the instance for violations in DMs - for which only the instance admins could confirm and verify).
I’ll point out again, the explanation did not reference https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/#bot-usage-and-guidelines suggesting that the admins did not think the user was a bot account.
Also worth repeating: I don’t disagree with either ban (though with the DMs I don’t have the knowledge or context, but I’m good with trusting the instance admins of lemmy.world in this case). I just believe the reasoning is different.
That again dives into the context that I didn’t have, like the DMs.
From what little I did see, I agreed with https://lemm.ee/post/45466523/15630878
Which doesn’t justify it, but also explains why I’ve interacted a lot with that user and only once felt trolled. The user tried to be a mirror and reflect back what was given. Which is not appropriate social behaviour, but if we’re banning a user for that reason, we should be open about it.
Also I agreed with https://lemm.ee/post/45466523/15631367
Now, I don’t mind if /m/politics becomes /c/democrats - I’m a lifelong democrat myself. But I also feel we should be open about these things. I shouldn’t be banned from /m/conservatives because of a hidden rule that I wasn’t not liberal enough in loving a universal basic income, for example.
Yeah this a wall of text. To be honest I can’t really spend my already limited time reading 15 paragraphs from someone who ignores relevant points I raise.
In this case, I addressed the ban reason given, and yet you try to argue more about it as though I didn’t. If you cared about more than disputing me, you might see that this was probably death by a million paper cuts.
TLDR to save you from a wall of text - we seem to agree on at least 99% and I’m not even sure what we’re disagreeing about anymore.
Yes, I can easily see that being the case for that user.
False premise? If you read it you’d have seen that I did not ignore those points but either agreed with or responded to each of them. Edit: So, while I certainly have no right to tell you what you should do with your time, perhaps it’s still possible that you can find a way to spend your “already limited time reading 15 paragraphs from someone [who acknowledges] relevant points” that you raised.
So this is a bit odd. I disagreed with Monk on a lot, but I never felt that his responses to me ever became uncordial.
Between you and me, it sounds like we maybe agree on 95% or 99% of the points. And yet, somehow this convo seems to be the one taking a more unfriendly turn.
Anyways, I wasn’t arguing about the ban reason but attempting clarify that I was speaking against one particular thing w/o disagreeing with the rest.
Sorry, I have a second wall of text you’d have to read. But in that I list out a lot of the different things I care about, and also the why.
Edit: I guess one might also ask why I spent so much time discussing this with you. Well, in fact, you’re exactly the type of person that the fediverse needs to be encouraging. Your script was useful, and I’m sure you’ll come up with many more greater and brilliant things as you spend more time on the fediverse. Basically, the fediverse needs you and more folks like you, so I was trying to turn around an engagement that might have started off the wrong foot around into a more positive one.