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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world to c/starwarsmemes@lemmy.world

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The drama is related to a Science Fiction community mod and and admin. I don't know enough to write on it, so check there.

Edit: MFW I just wanted to make a meme but dragged all the drama here

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[–] antik@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

This was a case of harassment from one user to another. That one is a developer of a successful app and the other is the moderator of a successful community has nothing to do with it. Izzy was asked on numerous occasions to stop derailing every conversation and stop targeting the user. You can not like something, you can be critical of something but at least try to be constructive. They were relentless. And when a warning was given by the admin they came back guns blazing, now also making accusations towards the admin team.

We have NO financial connection to Sync. We do not accept ANY money or other incentives from anyone exactly for this reason also, about how it might look if things go south.

Normally we don't talk about the bans in public because whatever we say people will twist the story make their own versions of it and run with it. So I posted what we had to say about that and locked the thread.

So finally I just want to say that it is unfortunate what happened but there were MANY occasions where Izzy was offered the chance to prevent this from happening. And as a moderator of a big community he has to be an example. Moderators should be held to a higher standard than normal users.

Edit: for another perspective, the other moderator from !sciencefiction@lemmy.world who left the community a while ago chimes in: https://lemmy.world/comment/3571751

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

[–] Silverseren@kbin.social -5 points 1 year ago

Your responses to WhoRoger over on that thread doesn't give me much confidence that you're on the level, Antik.