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pjwestin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, I checked the modlogs, and it was exactly the mod I thought it was. There are two mods on News and Political Memes that don’t like criticism of Democrats. Someone picked a fight with me on Political Memes, calling me a, “fucking moron,” and telling me I didn’t understand something. I showed him polling that disproved him, and he tried to prove that the Pew Research Center didn’t know how to conduct a survey. We were rude back and forth to each other for a while, but the kid who instigated the fight caught a 1 day ban for, “rudeness,” while I got a perma-ban for, “trolling.” They even left up separate comments on the same thread where told another user they were, “too stupid,” and to, “shut the fuck up.” It’s best to just block the communities they mod.
For the record, it’s a disgrace that they pulled that one comment for, “misinformation.” The only thing I would dispute is the claim that, “Biden [sold] more protected land than any other president,” and, “[approved] more drilling for fraking than any other.” Oil production did boom under him, and he expanded drilling on federal lands after promising not to, but I think the rate of sale and approval was about the same a Trump. Either way, that’s not misinformation, it’s just nuance.
toadjones79@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yeah. That’s why I still give it an upvote. Mods shouldn’t be deciding what information we get to process in a news community. News and data is new and data. This optional truth is getting out of hand in every political direction.
pjwestin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think mods should remove misinformation, but to my mind, for something to rise to the level of, “misinformation,” it needs to be egregiously false and harmful, like vaccine skepticism or election denial. Removing a comment, which is effectively true but debatably incorrect from a wonkish perspective, and labeling it misinformation? That’s bullshit.
If they wanted to remove comment where he says, “blue Maga,” whatever. Not the way I would run a community, but whatever. If they want to ban him for posting screenshots from the automod, OK, I guess he was poking the bear at that point. But the only reason to pull that other comment is because it contradicted their worldview. That’s bad in most communities, but in a news community, it’s unacceptable.
toadjones79@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yeah, I completely agree. Except I feel like posting the automod screenshots should be the expected norm, not something that pokes the bear. That just seems like accountability to me.
I am no fan of American conservatives. But that doesn’t mean I can’t take criticism about all aspects of politics and consider the different viewpoints. Like you said, unacceptable for a news community to do this.