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If you don't want EVERYONE to participate in your community, then you should really make it private. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just got permanently banned from a community for making a single harmless remark on a single post that was right there in the main feed. It's not a community I'm super active in so it's not like devastating, but it is annoying

If your precious little community is full of so many delicate sensitive people who can't even be reminded that another viewpoint even exists, then you should really protect them by defederating and having everyone join your private website

The mod has literally removed like 75% of the comments and banned everyone lol

I don't know about anyone else, but I don't have time to read every rule for every community that pops up when I'm in view all

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess I could, but I don't feel the need to turn my feed into an echo chamber. I'm not going to go to the community to pick a fight, but I'm not going to hide from content I don't agree with. I'll just downvote it and move on. Besides, the OP is right; if the mods don't want their community to get downvoted, it's their responsibility to make their community private, not my responsibility to block their shitty content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Private requires you to add everyone as a mod. I've only seen private communities used as single person kind of blogs, otherwise it's unsustainable to have 50-100 mods

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Alright, well I didn't realize creating a private community was such a hassel, but I still don't see why I'm expected to hide from this community when they post antagonistic shit. If they want to insult people who eat meat, fine, but then you have to deal with the fact that the people you just insulted might downvote you. It's not my job to help them insulate their echo chamber.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then you get banned, and then the matter is solved?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

...or you don't start a public community on a public website if you don't want input from the public? Also, the other mods on /c/Vegan removed the Mod responsible for this ban wave, so it seems like they agree with me that downvotes aren't grounds for community bans. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯